Infrastructure Stabilization
Stop being the accidental DevOps engineer.
Your infrastructure shouldn't be another thing the founder has to worry about. I stabilize founder-grown cloud infrastructure so you can focus on the product.
Sound familiar?
Production has become your problem.
- Only you know how to deploy it.
- Production has accumulated workarounds that nobody fully understands.
- Deployments are stressful and manual.
- Monitoring exists but isn't trusted.
- Nobody knows exactly how recovery works.
- Engineers are afraid to change infrastructure.
- You get pulled into incidents that take your attention away from product.
- Cloud costs are growing and nobody is sure why.
- New engineers need tribal knowledge to do anything in production.
You built the product. Becoming an SRE was never part of the plan. Infrastructure that grew organically alongside the product is normal. It just needs focused engineering attention to become something the team can rely on without you.
What happens
Make production boring
I review what's running today, distinguish what genuinely needs fixing from what can safely stay as-is, and stabilize the things that matter.
- Review the cloud architecture and current deployment process
- Stabilize deployments so they're repeatable and safe
- Set up proper CI/CD, rollback, and infrastructure-as-code
- Fix observability and alerting so failures are visible
- Address backups, recovery, and incident readiness
- Simplify where possible to reduce cost and complexity
- Document so production knowledge lives in the repo, not in someone's head
After the engagement
What changes
- Engineers can deploy without the founder.
- Failures are visible before they become incidents.
- Deployments are repeatable and rollback is straightforward.
- Production knowledge is documented and shared.
- The team can move faster without increasing operational risk.
- You can focus on product and team instead of DevOps.
Who this is for
Companies where infrastructure has become expensive in attention or risk, but a dedicated infrastructure or SRE hire doesn't make sense yet.
Best suited for real production systems, where downtime or instability has business consequences.
About
The work behind a dependable system
I'm Vladislav Supalov, an infrastructure and software engineer with over a decade of experience. I work with founders and operators who have built something valuable and need it to become dependable.
I work with existing systems and avoid unnecessary rewrites. The goal is always the minimum effective intervention that gets your system to a place you can trust.
More at vsupalov.com.
Let's figure out if there's a useful engagement.
Tell me what you've built, who depends on it, and what's worrying you.