Infrastructure readiness review
5–7 business days. A senior lead audits the platform, identifies bottlenecks, and writes a 30/60/90-day action plan.
Falkren helps funded startups stabilize cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, Kubernetes, Terraform, and reliability — before growth turns into operational chaos.
Recently raised?
Hiring DevOps / SRE but need help now?
Preparing for bigger customers?
Scaling product while infrastructure ownership is unclear?
Engineering hires take months — and the runway clock doesn't stop.
Product roadmap doubles overnight, but the platform was built for the previous size of the company.
Bigger customers start arriving with bigger expectations: uptime, SOC2, security, monitoring.
Founders and engineering leaders end up owning infrastructure they don't have time to own.
Cloud spend grows faster than anyone is tracking.
Releases still depend on one engineer being awake.
Cloud bill grew, no one knows exactly why.
Alerts fire constantly and nobody fully trusts them.
Staging and production drift apart quietly.
No documented on-call. No runbooks. No clear escalation.
Founders or CTO end up in the middle of every infra decision.
5–7 business days. A senior lead audits the platform, identifies bottlenecks, and writes a 30/60/90-day action plan.
A focused engagement to fix the highest-impact items — CI/CD, alerting, environments, cost, ownership.
A fractional senior DevOps function on retainer — or a bridge while the in-house hire is in flight.
When the in-house DevOps lead lands, we hand over cleanly — runbooks, dashboards, infra-as-code, the full picture.
20 minutes with a senior DevOps lead. Honest assessment of where infrastructure will break first, and what to do about it.