I work with startup founders on the cloud infrastructure and DevOps problems that eat time and put production at risk — usually short, focused engagements: an audit, a fix, or getting a specific system running reliably.
Provisioning cloud environments with Terraform, and fixing infrastructure that's over-provisioned or misconfigured. I've cut a startup's hosting bill from ~$300/mo to ~€8/mo without a drop in reliability.
Setting up or fixing pipelines and containerized deployments so shipping code doesn't mean risking downtime.
Getting visibility into what's actually happening in production — metrics, logs, and alerting — so incidents are caught and resolved before customers notice.
Investigating flaky or failing production and API issues, isolating the degraded dependency, and turning a vague report into a reproducible root cause.
Building or untangling the ETL/ELT pipelines and warehousing behind a product's data.
“Emmanuel helped us move away from an infrastructure setup that had become too expensive for our stage, reducing our core infrastructure cost by more than 95%.
“He handled the migration end to end and left us with a setup the team could understand and manage ourselves.”
Favour Anwara
CTO, Carybin
“As an early-stage startup, we were paying for managed infrastructure we barely used, with most months leaving half the capacity we were billed for untouched.
“Emmanuel got on calls to understand our stack first, then handled the whole migration himself: web app, API, background workers, queues, database, and file storage moved onto a self-hosted setup, with verified backups and a rollback path open the whole way.
“Our recurring infrastructure spend came down by roughly 65%, the hosting portion alone by close to 90%, with no data lost and nothing broken for our users.
“He then ran a live session walking us through what he'd built and left us documentation for operations, the migration itself, and the architecture, so we can deploy, read logs, and roll back without him. He was thorough, self-directed, and easy to work with.”
Joshua Nwankwo
Founder, Letsdap
“I had the pleasure of working with Emmanuel on a full migration of our infrastructure, and I can't recommend him highly enough. From start to finish he was thorough, organized, and completely on top of every detail.
“What could have been a stressful, disruptive process turned out to be smooth and seamless, he moved everything over with zero downtime and kept me clearly informed at every step.
“The impact has been immediate: our services now run noticeably faster and more reliably than before, and the whole setup feels more solid and easier to manage.
“Emmanuel clearly knows infrastructure and DevOps at a deep level, but just as importantly, he's dependable, communicates well, and genuinely cares about doing the job right. If you're looking for someone to handle a migration or take ownership of your infrastructure, Emmanuel is the person you want. Highly recommended.”
Ibrahim Doba
Founder, Dailzero
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