SD Tech Consultants is the practice of Shady Daniel — a systems & cloud engineer helping teams ship reliable platforms. From bare-metal networks to Kubernetes fleets and CI/CD pipelines, we build the quiet layer your product stands on.
➜ terraform apply --auto-approve
✓ 42 resources provisioned in 38s
➜ kubectl rollout status deploy/api
✓ deployment "api" successfully rolled out
➜ ansible-playbook harden.yml
! 3 drifted hosts reconciled
➜uptime
SD Tech Consultants is a focused practice: you get direct access to the engineer doing the work. No account managers, no juniors learning on your production cluster.
Six focused practice areas. Engage one, or let me own the whole platform lifecycle — from architecture diagram to on-call runbook.
Design and land production-grade AWS, Azure and Hetzner environments. Landing zones, VPC topology, multi-account governance and lift-and-shift migrations with zero-surprise cutovers.
Pipelines that turn a merge into a safe release. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, blue-green and canary rollouts.
Cluster builds, Helm charts, autoscaling, service mesh and cost-aware node strategies that survive real traffic.
Every resource versioned and reviewable. Terraform modules, Ansible roles and Pulumi stacks with drift detection built in.
Know before your users do. Metrics, logs and traces wired into actionable alerts, SLOs and clean incident workflows.
Least-privilege IAM, CIS-benchmarked servers, secret management, WAF/DDoS posture and audit-ready evidence trails.
No mystery work. Every engagement follows four visible stages with artefacts you keep.
I map what exists — topology, access, costs, failure points — and hand back a written risk register with prioritised fixes.
Target architecture, IaC layout, environment strategy and rollout plan, reviewed with your team before a line of code lands.
Infrastructure codified, pipelines wired, monitoring live. Shipped incrementally so nothing is a big-bang release.
Runbooks, dashboards, alert routing and a walkthrough session — so your team owns it confidently after I leave.
I stay deliberately boring where it matters and modern where it pays off. No résumé-driven architecture.
AWS · Azure · GCP · Hetzner · Cloudflare
Kubernetes · Docker · Helm · ArgoCD · Nomad
Terraform · Ansible · Pulumi · Packer
Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · OpenTelemetry
Linux · Nginx · PostgreSQL · Redis · Bash
Python · Go · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI
Rebuilt a single-AZ deployment into a three-region EKS platform with GitOps delivery and automated failover drills.
Audited a runaway AWS bill, rightsized compute, moved batch workloads to spot and introduced budget guardrails as code.
Moved 90 legacy VMs and a Postgres cluster to managed infrastructure over four staged cutovers with live replication.
Instrumented 30 services with OpenTelemetry, built SLO dashboards and replaced noisy alerting with error-budget policies.
Tell me what's breaking, drifting or costing too much. You'll get an honest read on effort and approach within two working days — no pitch deck.