Zerokai

Discipline

Infrastructure that doesn't page you at 2am.

Bad DevOps is invisible until it catastrophically isn't. We set up the kind of infrastructure that gets boring - automated, monitored, recoverable - so your team ships without fear.

What you get

  • Fully automated CI/CD pipelines: test, build, deploy on every push
  • Environments that match: dev, staging, and production in parity
  • Monitoring and alerting before your users find the problem
  • Infrastructure-as-code - no more 'works on my machine'
  • Database backups tested, point-in-time recovery documented
  • Cost review and right-sizing - pay for what you use

Right for you if ...

Not sure this is the right engagement? Book a free 30-min call and we will tell you honestly.

  • 01

    Deployments are manual, scary, or consistently cause incidents

  • 02

    You are spending more on cloud than you should and do not know why

  • 03

    You have no monitoring - you hear about outages from users, not alerts

  • 04

    You are approaching a compliance review and need the technical controls in place

What we build

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket - automated test, build, and deploy for every commit. Preview deployments for every PR.

Cloud infrastructure

AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Fly.io, Hetzner. We choose based on your scale and budget, not our preferred console.

Containerisation & orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes for larger workloads, ECS for teams that want AWS without the Kubernetes overhead. Right-sized for your actual traffic.

Observability

Logging, metrics, distributed tracing - Grafana, Datadog, Sentry, or your existing stack. You get answers before users file tickets.

Database management

Migrations, replication, automated backups, read replicas. Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB. We've done the 2am failover so you don't have to.

Security hardening

Secrets management, IAM policies, network segmentation, dependency scanning. The basics done properly, not performatively.

The stack we reach for

We pick tools to fit the project.

Cloud

AWSGCPDigitalOceanHetznerFly.ioRailway

Containers & orchestration

DockerKubernetesECSFly Machines

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIBitbucket Pipelines

Observability

GrafanaPrometheusDatadogSentryLogtail

IaC

TerraformPulumiCDK

How we work

01

Infra audit

We map what's running, what's missing, and what's quietly accumulating cost or risk. No assumptions, no templates.

02

Architecture decision

We propose the target state with trade-offs written plainly. You decide before we touch anything.

03

Migration & automation

Zero-downtime migrations where possible. Everything in code, everything in version control. No ClickOps.

04

Runbook & handover

A runbook your on-call engineer can actually follow at 3am. Incident playbooks for the scenarios that will happen.

Right-fit packages

Fixed prices. No hidden fees.

Engineering Retainer

For after your MVP ships

$3,499per month

pause anytime

  • 2 senior engineers on your roadmap
  • Async-first, weekly demos
  • We work in your repo, your conventions
  • 160 engineering hours, capped
  • 1 week notice to pause

Architecture Audit

Got existing code? Start here.

$1,4991-2 weeks

written report + walkthrough

  • Codebase audit (security, performance, maintainability)
  • Infra & cost review
  • Prioritised fix list with effort estimates
  • 90-min walkthrough call
  • Optional pair-programming session

Common questions

Ready to ship?

Ready to scope your idea?

30 minutes. We tell you exactly what your MVP needs and what it will cost. No obligation, no pitch deck.

We take 2 new Sprint clients per month. If we're at capacity, we'll tell you on the call and offer a waitlist.