Most cloud projects fail at the long tail, not provisioning. Nuno is a senior, founder-led team built to live there with you.
Senior cloud and Kubernetes operators, without staffing a platform team you cannot find, afford, or retain.
Your infra people keep the lights on. They should not retrain as Kubernetes specialists to operate the containers your vendors now ship.
Cluster is up. Backlog of ingress, GitOps, and policy debates. Nothing in production. Engineers burning out.
Reserved instances expired. Snapshots accumulated. Idle RDS, idle NAT, forgotten dev clusters. You need a senior operator, not another dashboard.
Lift, re-platform, refactor, the buzzwords are easy. Choosing which workload deserves which strategy takes scars.
Three phases. The first is commoditised. The other two are where value lives, and where most initiatives quietly fail.
Spinning up an EKS, an RDS, an S3 bucket. Every cloud does this in minutes. Tool choice matters very little here.
Identity, RBAC, network policy, secrets, audit logging, incident response, compliance. Where most teams under-invest and where every failed cloud initiative actually breaks.
Cost discipline, capacity planning, day-2 operations, knowledge transfer. The reward for getting Phase 2 right is that Phase 3 becomes possible.
Treating cloud as a single project leads to underfunded platforms and burned-out engineers. Nuno governs all six at once.
Multi-account AWS, VPC and subnet design, transit gateway, identity boundaries, KMS strategy. Designed once, lived with for years.
Cluster topology, EKS vs self-managed, ingress, secrets, service-mesh, multi-cluster patterns, GitOps workflows.
IAM hardening, least privilege at scale, KMS, audit trails, SOC2 / HIPAA / PCI alignment, image signing, runtime policy.
SLO/SLI design, dashboard hygiene, error budgets the business understands. Less noise, more signal.
Right-sizing, reservations, savings plans, spot, tagging that survives. The cheapest dollar is the one you stop spending.
Lift, re-platform, refactor. Runbooks, on-call posture, change windows, rollback paths. Work that never stops.
Most migrations burn six months on assessment and six on cleanup. Nuno bias: ship one production workload first, prove the model, then expand.
Inventory workloads, dependencies, data gravity, licensing. Tag each as lift, re-platform, refactor, retire, or retain.
Account structure, network, identity, observability, CI/CD. Architecture exists before any production workload moves.
One real workload to production first. Not a PoC. Prove the model on something that pages someone.
Hand back with runbooks, dashboards, on-call posture, cost guardrails. Stay alongside, then step out.
Rain Instant Pay, cloud platform partnered from the first transaction. 1M+ monthly transactions today.
Cloud-native work delivered through Appnovation for 9/11 Memorial, TCL, and 50CAN.
Kubernetes and cloud engineering delivered alongside Stepp.ai's AI-driven platform.
Drift happens when operational complexity grows faster than the team can manage it. Each new tool feels justified. Over time the platform becomes fragile, expensive, opaque.
Nuno is intentionally small. The engineer who quotes the engagement is the engineer running the platform six months later, and the one your team learns from.
We would rather be excellent at five accounts than mediocre at fifty.
Fintech, payments, education, public-memorial workloads. Signed agreements with Nuno LLC.
Boring means predictable. Boring means recoverable. Nuno is hired to make your cloud boring.
Let’s make your cloud boring