Infrastructure that earns its keep.
I'm an independent cloud & DevOps architect with over twenty years in engineering and a decade leading teams. I work with a small number of companies at a time on the systems that decide whether a product scales and what it costs to run — Kubernetes platforms, delivery pipelines, and the infrastructure economics underneath. Recent engagements cut compute cost by 70–80% while traffic and scale grew. A one-person practice on purpose: senior attention, not a staffing plan.
What I do
Cloud & Kubernetes architecture
Design and migration to Kubernetes platforms that scale across regions — cloud-native foundations that hold up under enterprise load and audit.
DevOps & platform engineering
GitOps, CI/CD, and monorepos that make delivery boring — developer experience that takes time-to-build from weeks to a day and maintenance toward zero.
Performance & cost optimisation
Find and remove the latency and the spend. Recent work cut infrastructure cost 70–80% while scaling to hundreds of thousands of requests per second.
Fractional CTO & team building
The technical seat at the table — architecture, hiring, and mentoring. I build teams that keep shipping after I leave; several hires have gone on to lead.
Selected work
- 01NavVis · lead cloud architect
Built the Kubernetes SaaS platform that took NavVis from the EU to the US and Japan — serving BMW, Audi, Toyota and S&P 500 customers — while cutting operations and compute cost and standardising on GitOps.
- 02GetArchive · CTO
Re-platformed the largest public-domain archive on the web onto metal-cloud Kubernetes: −70% infrastructure cost, +200% traffic, with in-house AI search and a private global CDN.1
- 03SuperBuzz · VP engineering
Re-architected the platform to serve 200k+ uncached requests per second under 150ms and cut cost-per-user by 80%+. Now public on the TSXV.
- 04carguru.lv · head of development
Built and led the team behind the first car-sharing platform in the Baltics — full stack from IoT in the cars to mobile apps — idea to production in under a year, under €200k. Still operating today.
How I work
Read
Before changing anything, I read the system, the team, and the constraints. No recommendations in the first week — only questions and a map.
Frame
We agree on the few decisions that actually matter and the order to make them in. Scope is written down and kept small on purpose.
Ship
Hands on keyboard alongside your team. Small, reversible steps; each one measured. Progress you can see weekly, not quarterly.
Hand off
I leave the team able to continue without me — documented decisions, a clear roadmap, and people who own the system.
About & references
Over twenty years in engineering, the last decade leading teams and the last few independent. I started on *nix systems and networks in 2004 — and have stayed close to infrastructure ever since.
I work as a generalist across the stack, but my edge is cloud, Kubernetes, and the economics of running software at scale. I take a small number of engagements at a time so each one gets real attention, and I care about teams that keep shipping after I leave.
- 2023Lead Cloud Engineering & Architecture at NavVis — Kubernetes SaaS serving BMW, Audi, Toyota and S&P 500 customers across the EU, US and Japan.
- 2021Built the core engineering team for Sun Finance Group — #2 fastest-growing company in the EU (FT 1000, 2021).
- 2023Of ten engineers mentored at NavVis, four were promoted within the year.
- 2004First — and only — patch submitted to the Linux kernel.