Yaugen is a CTO for Hire & Principal SRE with 15+ years across e-commerce, hospitality, and SaaS. He helps tech-driven SMBs and fast-growing startups balance reliability, speed of delivery, cost control, and technical debt. Previously an SRE at a public SaaS and a co-founder of mobile and ML products, he blends scale-tested practice with founder pragmatism — comfortable aligning roadmaps with constraints and shipping hands-on when it matters.
SERVICES
Emergency 48h
Production fire. Data chaos. Broken pipeline. I step in, stabilize, and bring clarity — all within 48 hours.
Fee: Flat rate $1,900 · No retainers
FinOps for Engineering
Cloud and infrastructure cost optimization — without performance loss. I take 15 % of verified 12-month savings.
Fee: Zero upfront · Free audit
Reliability & Leadership
Continuous reliability, cost control, architecture oversight, and team enablement — at executive depth.
Fee: Starting $3,600 / month
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Standardized Kubernetes, introduced SLOs, and hardened security. Raised SecurityScorecard +27, reduced time-to-market by 43%, ensured 98.8% availability.
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Migrated monolith to AWS with infrastructure-as-code and observability. Achieved 99.3% uptime, eliminated sev0 incidents, +25% delivery velocity, -70% manual QA.
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Designed and operated large-scale ES cluster. Delivered reliable backup/restore (RTO/RPO), observability, and cost optimization for critical reporting.
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Designed basin-level orchestration with Airflow/K8s, PostGIS, PMTiles/COG. Optimized CPU/I/O for near US-scale flood prediction workloads.
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Reverse-engineered locked by ionCube legacy PHP stack and migrated to AWS. Improved uptime, added backups/monitoring, and cut infrastructure costs by ~3x.
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Automated full iOS release lifecycle (builds, signing, TestFlight, metadata/localization). Enabled detailed multi-account apps analytics and rating monitoring.
SELECTED WORK
SCOPED ENGAGEMENTS
Migrations, architecture, performance, security — critical projects delivered on a fixed scope and budget.
How do you price scoped work?
A short scoping call, a written scope with milestones and acceptance criteria, then a flat fee. Scope remains fixed; change requests are quoted before work continues.
Scope expands during the project?
I log it and propose a follow-on scope. No surprises mid-flight, no silent scope creep.
What do we actually get?
Typical deliverables include ADRs, Terraform code, CI/CD pipelines, dashboards/alerts, runbooks, and a recorded handover and knowledge-transfer walkthrough.
Who owns the code and IP?
You do. All deliverables and changes are transferred with documentation and maintainers in mind.
Start date & timeline?
Typical scopes take 1-3 weeks. Start within 1-2 weeks, subject to calendar and access.
Is there support after delivery?
Yes — many clients roll into a Retainer for stability and roadmap execution.
CONTACT