Nuno
Nuno

Lower AWS bills. Production-safe Kubernetes.

We cut cloud costs and run Kubernetes for SaaS and fintech teams, then stay on as your part-time platform team.

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AWS bill down 55% in 3 months

B2B SaaS on Kubernetes

From about $20.8K to $9.3K a month. More than $135K a year saved.

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Trusted on production

Real partnerships, real production work

From scaling a payment platform from its very first transaction to providing cloud-native depth to consultancies, here's where Nuno is trusted to deliver.

Rain Instant PayFintech · payments

Partnered from the very first transaction through to 1M+ monthly transactions today.

AppnovationDigital consultancy

Cloud-native work delivered for Appnovation's consulting clients across multiple industries.

Stepp.aiAI · SaaS

Cloud infrastructure engineering delivered for Stepp.ai's AI-driven platform.

ScalisScalis
B2B SaaS · hiring

Platform, DevOps, and cloud engineering for scalis.ai, a fast-growing hiring SaaS running on Amazon EKS.

KITRUMEngineering partner

Cloud-native and DevOps engineering delivered together with KITRUM's software teams.

Among the projects delivered through Appnovation

9/11 Memorial & MuseumTCL50CANHoffmann-La Roche

Kubestronaut on staff · 13 CNCF & AWS certifications · founder-led

All third-party logos are shown for reference of real engagements undertaken under signed agreements with Nuno LLC. Brand marks remain the property of their respective owners. Work referenced through Appnovation was delivered as part of their consulting practice and is not implied to be a direct Nuno engagement.

Our mission

Drive your business forward with bespoke cloud solutions and expert consulting, designed to scale, secure, and stay close as you grow.

Vander Nunes · CEO
Well trained team

Certifications

Cloud-native solutions are in our DNA. Our team of certified experts is dedicated to providing top-notch, secure, and efficient services. Explore the certifications that underscore our mastery and dedication to industry-leading technologies.

Kubestronaut
Featured credential

Kubestronaut

Awarded by the CNCF to engineers who pass all five Kubernetes certifications, one of only a few hundred globally.

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Case studies

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Case 01

redir.rocks: Three Edge Architectures and a 1.3M-Request Launch Test

Nuno's own redirect service issues TLS certificates for customer domains at the edge. Before launch it served 1.3M HTTPS requests in 2 hours with 62 errors, on an AWS estate that ran at about $38 to $45 a month before the load balancer was added.

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Case 02

From "Is It Green?" to SLOs and an SLA You Can Measure

A hiring SaaS on AWS EKS went from judging reliability by complaints to about 40 tiered SLOs, and Nuno proposed a 99.95% request success SLA measured at the load balancer. Fixing the measurement mattered as much as fixing the system.

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Case 03

Moving a SaaS Platform Behind a Global Edge: 59% Faster Pages and a Closed Origin

A hiring SaaS on AWS EKS brought in Nuno to put its DNS and production traffic behind a global edge. Average page latency fell from 383 to 159 ms, Europe from 807 to 302 ms, and the origin now only accepts edge traffic.

EdgeSecurityAWS
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Case 04

Observability From Zero on GKE: 24 Alert Rules in 80 Hours, and an 8-Day Outage Found

An education SaaS platform on GKE had a full monitoring stack deployed and not one alert. In 80 hours it got 9 dashboards and 24 alert rules, and in the first week they found a production rollout that had been blocked for 8 days.

ObservabilityKubernetesGCP
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Case 05

Cutting a SaaS Platform’s Kubernetes Cloud Bill by 55% with FinOps

A FinOps engagement that took a fast-growing SaaS platform’s AWS bill from about $20.8K to $9.3K a month in three months. More than $135K a year in savings, held for four months, without a feature freeze.

FinOpsKubernetesAWS
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Case 06

Two EKS Upgrades in Two Months with About 15 to 30 Seconds of Customer-Visible Disruption

A hiring SaaS brought in Nuno to move four EKS clusters out of paid extended support. Two Kubernetes upgrades later, production had seen about 15 to 30 seconds of customer-visible disruption and the extended support fee was gone.

KubernetesEKSAWS
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Case 07

From 45 Hand-Run Scripts to Terraform for an AI Startup on Bare Metal

An AI startup ran its platform on bare-metal servers, built by about 45 shell scripts run by hand in order. In May 2026 it moved to Terraform: a server now goes from apply to a checked host in about 17 minutes, and the first CI plan showed no drift.

TerraformBare MetalKubernetes
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Case 08

A Fintech's First SOC 2, Kept for 3 to 4 Consecutive Years

A US fintech for on-demand pay obtained its first SOC 2 with infrastructure evidence produced from code and kept the report for 3 to 4 consecutive years.

SOC 2AWSCompliance
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Case 09

Five Years Building a Fintech Platform on AWS with Infrastructure as Code

A US fintech for on-demand pay moved from hand-built AWS resources to 116 infrastructure-as-code units across four regions, passed its first SOC 2 and kept it for 3 to 4 consecutive years.

AWSTerraformFintech
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Case 10

Moving a Legacy Adobe AEM Site From End-of-Life VMs to Kubernetes on Azure

A consumer brand's website ran Adobe AEM on about twenty end-of-life VMs. In two months Nuno moved it to one AKS cluster spread over three zones, with failover headroom and a CDN that finally cached.

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Case 11

Moving a Cultural Nonprofit's Drupal Deploys From Jenkins to GitHub Actions

A US cultural nonprofit deployed its Drupal site through Jenkins with no protection on the main branch. Nuno moved it to GitHub Actions with automatic deploys to test environments, an approval gate for production and a written rollback.

CI/CDGitHub ActionsDrupal
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Case 12

Building a Secure, Compliant Hybrid Cloud Framework for Financial Transactions

Regulated payment workloads rebuilt on AWS with end-to-end compliance, auditability, and disaster recovery.

CloudAWSFinancial
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Case 13

Enhancing Global Connectivity and Reducing Latency Across Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Networking, peering, and CDN strategy that shaved global latency and unified an on-prem + multi-cloud footprint.

CloudAWSFinancial
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Case 14

Transforming a High-Growth Organization’s DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure for Global Scaling

Kubernetes-native platform, GitOps pipelines, and observability stack that let the team ship daily at global scale.

CloudAWSFinancial
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In our clients' words

Real client testimonials are landing here as engagements wrap. Below are illustrative samples that mirror the kind of work Nuno delivers, names and companies are placeholders and photos are AI-generated.

“Nuno built the AWS and Kubernetes foundation our operations now run on. Disciplined, fast, and they stayed close as we grew.”

Elena Lindgren

VP of Engineering · NorthWave Logistics

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“They replaced our Jenkins setup with a GitHub Actions pipeline that finally made our releases boring. That is the highest compliment I can give a deployment system.”

Marcus Reiter

Director of Platform · Helix Health Platform

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“Page loads dropped from 18s to under 3s after the Kubernetes-native rebuild. The performance evidence was thorough and the architecture is one we still reference.”

Priya Castellanos

Head of Engineering · Quantum Edge Analytics

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“In a short engagement they found and fixed a caching misconfiguration that was effectively running our site without cache. Scoped, validated, and shipped, clean.”

David Okafor

DevOps Manager · Maritime Cloud Systems

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