Cloud and AI infrastructure
Infrastructure for small companies that need it to work properly
Without the cost or ceremony of an enterprise engagement. Twenty-five years of production systems in financial services and telecoms, now at a size where one engineer can do the whole job.
01 · AI inference
Inference that costs what the workload deserves
Teams that have shipped an AI feature on a frontier API often find the bill grows faster than the usage that justifies it. I set up open-weight models on European infrastructure such as Scaleway or OVHcloud, routing through OpenRouter, or a mix of both behind a single gateway. Sometimes the right answer is to stay on the API you already have and stop paying for tokens you don't need. I'll tell you which.
- AI Inference Setup £4,000–10,000 · 2–4 weeks
02 · Cloud health and cost
Know what you're running and what it costs
For legacy estates and cloud bills nobody can explain. I review the accounts, networks, deploys and spend, then show the calculation behind every saving I suggest, and say where it doesn't hold.
- Cloud Health Check £1,500–2,500 · 1 week
03 · Platform engineering
Infrastructure nobody is afraid to deploy to
Cloud accounts, networks, CI/CD, observability and a deploy process nobody is afraid of. Everything is in Terraform, with a written handover your own engineers can run. And I'll talk you out of Kubernetes if you don't need it.
- Platform Build £8,000–15,000 · 3–5 weeks
- Fractional Platform Engineer £1,200–2,500 a month · Ongoing
How I work
The simplest thing that works
Smaller work is fine if it's the right work.
Everything in code
Terraform, pipelines and a written handover. You shouldn't depend on me.
Specific numbers
A single fixed price before any work starts, and the calculation behind every saving.
Reachable afterwards
A small monthly retainer keeps me on hand for the next decision.
Start with a 30-minute call
Tell me what you're running and what worries you about it. I work remotely, and I'm happy to meet around Bristol, Bath, Oxford, Cheltenham and Swindon.
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