About Time.

We’ve seen uptime. We’ve seen the abyss. We stayed logged in.

We crashed production — so you don’t have to.

Infra that works. Built by engineers who’ve seen it break — and kept it standing. It’s About Time!

Different people land here. We won’t pretend you all want the same thing. Choose your door ↓

Who calls us

We get called when the other consultants ghost mid‑incident.

• Banks & regulated enterprises in the middle of “transformations” that transformed nothing.
• Platform teams drowning in tickets and drift—needing a reset, not a reorg.
• Leads with scars who need extra hands that don’t need hand‑holding.
• Teams facing regulators or board scrutiny, needing proof not promises.

Names omitted. Systems saved.

How we work

We’ve done the bandaid fixes. We’ve done the permanent ones. Sometimes, they’re the same.

• We fix things. But first, we understand them.
• We automate what makes sense. We script what doesn’t. And we document both.
• We don’t write manifestos. We write bash scripts.

“Sooner we get to it, sooner we get through it.”

The Field Manual (engineers)

• GitOps that doesn’t drift: FluxCD/Argo done right, with clear ownership and fast rollbacks.
• CI/CD without superstition: ship on Fridays, roll back in seconds — Knight Capital showed what happens if you can’t.
• Hardening that survives audits: CIS alignment, signed images, provenance (because SolarWinds taught us why), policy‑as‑code — and we don’t forget Log4Shell.
• Observability that finds causes: SLOs, meaningful alerts, MTTR that actually drops.
• Networking you can reason about: service meshes only when they pay for themselves.

Some call it infrastructure. We call it haunted legacy systems.

Outcomes (the ones you report up)

• Risk down: fewer incidents, cleaner changes, auditable pipelines.
• Uptime up: resilient architecture (including tooling designed with robust safeguards, not just syntax checks), disaster drills that aren’t theater — because S3 2017 wasn’t just a bad day, it was a wake‑up call.
• Velocity up: release frequency rises without gambling on quality.
• Clarity up: ownership, runbooks, on‑call that doesn’t burn people out.

Yes, your DNS outage is probably your fault. And yes, we’ll still fix it.

Automation & Security

We automate what makes sense. We script what doesn’t. We document both.

• Policy‑driven pipelines, signed releases, provenance you can show an auditor.
• Runtime sanity: alerts that matter, budgets that hold, rollbacks that actually roll back — atomicity, not Schrödinger's cat, because Spectre and Meltdown proved even CPUs can lie.

This, by the way, is a perfect example of why eliminating nuisance alerts is such an important part of the design of any warning system — because as soon as people start disregarding a warning, it has stopped fulfilling its function.

• We’ve written TLS and SSH key audits — think Heartbleed fallout — that made grown men weep. And pass compliance.

Infra war stories

• From Jenkins‑hell to traceable releases: shrink pipelines, kill magic, add provenance.
• Audit in 10 days: lock down clusters, sign images, prove who shipped what, when — because no one wants to be the next Equifax headline.
• Friday deploys without prayer: what used to feel like Russian roulette now runs on feature flags, staged rollouts, and instant rollback.
• Noise to signal: SLOs, alert budgets, executive dashboards that tell the truth — even when the truth hurts.
• Red‑teamed a release strategy: caught assumptions before regulators did.

We get called when others vanish. We stay logged in.

How we engage (no theater)

1. 90‑minute discovery: we listen to where it hurts. No sales deck.
2. One‑page plan: problems, outcomes, the few things we’ll actually do.
3. Hands‑on delivery: we implement with your team, not around it.
4. Proof of boring reliability: drills, dashboards, and fewer pager pings.

Sometimes you don’t need more delivery — you need someone to poke holes in what everyone else assumes is solid. That’s where our red team comes in.