Platform Engineering Built on 15 Years of Enterprise Experience
I've kept production systems running at 2am in regulated financial institutions where downtime has real consequences. Now I bring that discipline to Series A and B startups that need production-ready infrastructure without a full-time hire.
Years in Platform Engineering & SRE
Fortune 500 Production Environments
Daily Users Supported at Scale
Built by an Engineer Who Has Operated at Scale
NexaMind was founded by a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years building and operating platform infrastructure at enterprise scale — including regulated financial services where reliability is non-negotiable.
Thomson Reuters
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
OpenText
Technical Lead
Manulife
Technical Lead
Finastra
Technical Lead
“I've kept production systems running at 2am in regulated financial institutions where downtime has real consequences. NexaMind exists to bring that platform engineering discipline to Series A and B startups that need production-ready AWS infrastructure and observability — but can't yet justify a $180K–$220K full-time hire.”
- 15 years in Platform Engineering and SRE at Fortune 500 enterprises
- AWS infrastructure specialist — Terraform, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM
- Datadog observability setup, tuning, and alert fatigue reduction
- CI/CD pipeline architecture with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
- Experience with regulated industries: fintech, insurance, media
- Based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada — serving US and Canadian startups remotely
* These references indicate previous employment, not client endorsements.
How I Work
No six-month discovery phases. No vague retainers. Every engagement has a defined scope, a clear deliverable, and an honest conversation upfront about whether I'm the right fit.
Free 20-Min Discovery Call
We talk about your stack, your team, and your biggest platform pain. I tell you honestly what I think needs to happen — and whether I can help.
Audit or Scope Definition
Most engagements start with an Observability Audit. For project or fractional work, we define scope together before any price is agreed.
Delivery with Your Team
I work alongside your engineers — in Slack, reviewing PRs, deploying changes. You stay in the loop and build ownership of the platform as we go.
Knowledge Transfer
Every engagement ends with your team knowing what was built and why. Documentation, runbooks, and a session so you can operate it yourself.
Who This Is For
I work specifically with Series A and B technology startups — primarily US-based.
You have a product engineering team but no dedicated platform or DevOps person
You've raised Series A or B and have real budget approved
Deploys are slow, incidents happen without clear ownership, or nobody owns observability
You need a CTO-friendly engagement: defined scope, defined price, defined outcome
You want someone to manage your team or act as a permanent FTE
You are pre-product or pre-revenue with no engineering foundation yet