// SOLO PRINCIPAL ENGINEER
Senior Automation & Platform Engineering. On Demand.
I'm a solo engineer with 17+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise platform engineering, continuous delivery, and observability. Send me the manual, repetitive work your team shouldn't be doing. I scope it within one business day and deliver working, documented automation, on a monthly plan for small SaaS teams and startups.
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# Solo Automation & Platform Engineer
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The Workflow
How a Ticket Works
You deal directly with me. No account managers, no meetings, no fluff.
- Submit: Describe the problem, the outcome you want, and any deadline.
- Triage (free, up to 45 min): I reply with the approach, the tools, and an estimate range.
- Approve: Work starts only after you approve the estimate.
- Build: If I reach the top of the range, I pause and ask before continuing.
- Deliver: A written summary of what changed, how to verify it, and what to watch.
What I Do
Automation & Core Expertise
If a person does it by hand every week, I can probably automate it, and build it to be reliable.
- Process & Business Workflow Automation
- CI/CD, GitOps & Infrastructure as Code (ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible)
- OpenShift & Kubernetes Container Platforms
- Distributed Messaging & Caching (Kafka, Redis)
- Full-Stack Observability (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Alerting)
- High Availability (HA) & Disaster Recovery (DR) Architectures
- Cloud & Infrastructure Operations (Azure user-level workflows)
Plans
Starter
10 hours / month
$1,600 / month
Standard
20 hours / month
$3,000 / month
Team
40 hours / month
$5,600 / month
Same-day scoping replies.
Billed monthly, upfront. Cancel any time before your next renewal.
The Rules
Simple, Predictable Terms
- Hours are monthly: Unused hours expire at month end.
- One ticket at a time: Submit as many as you like and set the priority. I work them in that order.
- 1 business day reply: A reply commitment, not a fix-time guarantee.
- 30 days of free fixes: If something I built breaks within 30 days of delivery, I fix it at no charge.
- Least-privilege access: I work with accounts you create for me.
Out of Scope
What I Don't Do
- Incident response, on-call, or uptime guarantees
- Application feature development
- Work outside my confidence areas. I'll tell you upfront and won't bill for it.