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Your team ships slower than it should. We know where the time goes.

Slow pipelines, flaky tests, outages nobody can explain, a cloud bill that only goes up, and a codebase new hires need a month to understand. Most of it comes from too many moving parts. We remove them.

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Senior engineer, 15 years of production systems in Ruby on Rails, Python, Java and PHP. Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed targets.


The tax you're already paying

None of this shows up as a line item, so nobody owns it. It just quietly takes hours from every engineer, every week.

What we specialise in

1

CI/CD pipelines that don't waste your day

We profile every stage of your pipeline and fix what's slow: dependency and Docker layer caching, test splitting and parallelism, skipping what didn't change, faster runners for less money. Then deploys: one command or one merge, automatic rollback, preview environments if they earn their keep.

Typical target: a pipeline under 10 minutes and deploys nobody has to babysit.

2

Test suite audits

Coverage percentages lie. We look at what your tests actually protect: which critical paths have no tests, which tests are flaky and why, which are slow (factory bloat, real network calls, sleeps), and which test nothing at all. You get a ranked list and, if you want, we fix it.

Typical target: zero known flaky tests, a suite that runs in half the time, and tests where the money is.

3

Observability you can actually use

Structured logs, OpenTelemetry tracing across web, jobs and external calls, the metrics that matter, error tracking, SLOs, and alerts that only wake someone when a customer is affected. We set it up so that "why was it slow on Tuesday?" takes five minutes to answer, not a week.

Typical target: every user-facing request traceable end to end, and an alert list with no noise.

4

Cost of running it

Cloud, database, CI minutes and observability vendors are where small teams overspend. We right-size servers and databases, fix the N+1 queries and missing indexes that force bigger machines, sample telemetry instead of storing everything, and cut CI spend. Every recommendation comes with the expected monthly saving.

You see the numbers before we change anything.

5

Developer experience

One-command local setup, realistic seed data, dev containers where they help, fast feedback loops, sensible linting, a README that's true, and a repo that AI coding assistants can work in safely. New people ship on day one; experienced people stop fighting their tools.

Typical target: clone to running app in under 15 minutes.

How we work with teams

Week 1

Audit

We read the pipeline, the test suite, the dashboards and the invoices, and we pair with one or two of your engineers. You get a written report: where the time and money go, ranked by payoff, each fix with a fixed price.

2–4 weeks

Fix sprint

We agree targets up front ("CI under 10 minutes", "no flaky tests", "–30% on the cloud bill"), then work in your repo through normal pull requests your team reviews. No black boxes.

Last day

Handover

Runbooks, dashboards your team understands, and a short session walking through everything we changed. It stays fast after we leave because your team knows why it's fast.


Pricing

Engineering audit

$1,500
  • One week, one or more areas
  • Ranked findings + fixed prices
  • Credited against a fix sprint

Fix sprint

from $6k
  • 2–4 weeks, fixed price
  • Targets agreed up front
  • Your PR process, your repo

Cost review

$1,500
  • Cloud, DB, CI, observability
  • Each saving quantified
  • Credited if we implement it

Ongoing help afterwards: our Care plans start at $750/month. Polish companies: ceny w PLN.

Fair questions

We already have engineers. Why bring you in?
Because this work is always important and never urgent, so it never reaches the top of the sprint. We do it in a few focused weeks while your team keeps shipping features.
What stacks?
Ruby on Rails, Python, Java and PHP. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI or Buildkite; AWS, GCP, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Heroku or Fly; Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, Honeycomb, Grafana or plain OpenTelemetry.
Will you lock us into your tools?
No. We prefer open standards (OpenTelemetry, plain YAML pipelines) precisely so you can switch vendors and keep everything we built.
Can you guarantee results?
We agree measurable targets before the sprint starts. If the audit shows a target isn't realistic, we say so before you pay for the sprint.

Show us where it hurts.

Tell us what's slow, flaky or expensive. We'll reply within one business day with whether we can help and what the first step would cost.

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