Engagement models

Services

Three ways to work together, depending on how much support you need and for how long.

Advisory

Ad-hoc guidance and architecture reviews — a second, senior opinion when a decision matters.

Who it's for: Teams that already have engineers, but want a sanity check before committing to a direction.

How it works: Async reviews, a working session, or a standing office-hours slot — whatever fits the question.

Commitment: A single session or a light recurring cadence. No long-term contract.

A bounded deliverable with a clear scope and end date — a migration, a platform build-out, a CI/CD overhaul.

Who it's for: Teams with a specific outcome in mind but not the in-house bandwidth or specialization to execute it.

How it works: Scoped upfront, delivered against a defined set of milestones.

Limited availability

An ongoing part-time senior lead for your platform or DevOps work.

Who it's for: Teams that need consistent staff-level judgment but aren’t ready for a full-time hire.

How it works: A recurring weekly or biweekly commitment, embedded with your team.

Commitment: Ongoing, minimum 3-month engagement, renewing quarterly thereafter.

To avoid conflicts of interest, I don't take on work for direct competitors of my clients or employer.

Where I go deep

Platform & DevOps: Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code that hold up under real production load.
Right-sized cloud infrastructure: Cloud architecture scaled to a small org’s actual needs, not enterprise defaults.
Reliability & cost optimization: Finding the unnecessary spend and the fragile spots before they become incidents.

Recent engagements

A few of the things built through Breco Tech for small teams and nonprofits.

AWS migration & cleanupPre-launch startup: Took over fragile, half-documented Terraform after the startup lost its infrastructure engineer. Moved their apps from EC2 into a new EKS cluster, retired the old environments, and right-sized the nodes to actual usage. The AWS savings more than covered the cost of the engagement.
Silent-auction web appLocal nonprofit: Built and donated an app that kicked off the modernization of their annual silent auction. We moved from pen and paper to an intuitive, QR-code-based experience that included bidding, item catalog, and checkout support for the nonprofit's volunteers at the end of the night.
CI/CD pipelineSmall business: On a merge to main, GitHub Actions builds and pushes to ECR, then deploys to EKS with FluxCD. A full CI/CD pipeline so new features make it to customers as fast as they're built and tested.
Observability stackSmall business: Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana with dashboards and alerting, so the first sign of trouble is a page, not a customer.

Next step

A quick intro call is the fastest way to figure out the right shape of engagement.