Independent Platform & Cloud Engineers

We fix the cloud problems that keep engineering leaders awake at night.

Most cloud migrations don't stall because of AWS or Azure. They stall because teams get overwhelmed by runaway bills, brittle Kubernetes clusters, and AI workloads that choke in production. We partner directly with your engineering team to fix the foundation — hands-on, in production code.

35–48%Typical compute spend reduction in the first 30 days
<15msP99 inference latency on tuned GPU serving stacks
10 wksFrom first audit to zero-downtime production cutover
0Vendor lock-in — you own every line of Terraform

Production stacks we build and run

KubernetesTerraformAWS EKSAzure AKSGoogle GKEArgoCDKarpenterCilium eBPFvLLMRayTensorRTCloudflarePrometheusOpenTelemetry
“No 80-page PowerPoint decks, no junior consultants billed as experts. You work directly with principal engineers who have designed multi-region platforms, optimized GPU inference pipelines, and reclaimed millions in wasted cloud spend.”
Principal Engineering Practice — CloudSpecialist AI

Three symptoms that tell us an infrastructure needs intervention.

These are the recurring challenges CTOs and engineering directors bring to us when their teams are stretched thin.

01 / RUNAWAY COST

The $80,000/Month Surprise

Your cloud bill grew 40% quarter-over-quarter, but traffic only grew 10%. Over-provisioned nodes, unattached storage volumes, and unoptimized batch jobs are quietly consuming your budget.

HOW WE FIX ITKarpenter dynamic rightsizing and spot arbitrage, cutting 35%–48% of compute spend within 30 days.
02 / DEVELOPER FRICTION

The Brittle Kubernetes Trap

Deployments take 45 minutes, staging constantly drifts from production, and your senior engineers spend half their week debugging CI/CD pipelines instead of shipping features.

HOW WE FIX ITClean GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD and eBPF networking, cutting release cycles to minutes with automated rollbacks.
03 / AI IN PRODUCTION

The GPU Bottleneck

Your data science team trained a great model, but when real users hit it, inference latency spikes to 2 seconds and GPUs sit idle at 40% memory utilization.

HOW WE FIX ITModel serving with vLLM, TensorRT, and Ray on partitioned spot GPUs, dropping P99 latency below 15ms.

Boardroom strategy and production engineering, under one alliance.

CloudSpecialist AI is the hands-on cloud and AI infrastructure partner of Xavvy, the UK enterprise IT advisory firm and AI product studio. Together we take programs from executive roadmap all the way down to running Terraform.

Xavvy Enterprise IT Advisory & AI Product Studio · UK
Strategic Partner
  • One accountable team — Xavvy's technical governance and advisory leadership, paired with our engineers in your repositories.
  • Zero-trust and edge-native by default — shared conviction in secure, Cloudflare-fronted, cost-aware architecture.
  • Proven in real products — the same engineering discipline behind Xavvy's live AI platforms for HR, trading and healthcare.

How the partnership works

Engagement model, joint services and who does what on a combined program.

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How we work with your team (no vendor lock-in).

We believe in leaving your internal team stronger and fully self-sufficient. Everything we build is written in clean, modular Terraform and documented for your engineers.

WEEK 1 – 2

Targeted Diagnostic & Cost Audit

We audit your Kubernetes clusters, cloud telemetry, and billing data. We pinpoint exact bottlenecks, security gaps, and immediate cost savings with zero production disruption.

WEEK 3 – 6

Hands-On Architecture & POC

We author modular Terraform blueprints, configure hardened cluster pipelines, and benchmark performance in staging alongside your lead engineers.

WEEK 7 – 10

Zero-Downtime Production Cutover

Phased canary rollout with active-active routing, automated failovers, and live validation under peak customer traffic.

ONGOING

Complete Knowledge Transfer & SLA Peace of Mind

Your team receives full repository ownership, runbooks, and architectural documentation. We remain available for escalations and quarterly reviews.

A few examples of what we've delivered.

Client names are withheld under NDA. Happy to walk through the architecture on a call.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Re-architecting a Multi-Region Banking Core

A growing fintech was struggling with Kubernetes cluster drift and strict PCI-DSS audit deadlines. We migrated 340+ microservices to automated multi-region EKS with Cilium eBPF encryption, achieving a zero-downtime cutover.

EKSCiliumPCI-DSSTerraform
44.2% Reduction in annual cloud infrastructure spend with 99.999% uptime
BIOMEDICAL AI PLATFORM

Scaling LLM Inference from 140ms to 18ms

A healthtech genomics startup faced severe GPU memory starvation under concurrent hospital API queries. We restructured their serving pipeline with vLLM and dynamic GPU slicing (MIG) on spot fleets.

vLLMNVIDIA MIGSpot GPUsRay
7.8× Higher concurrent query throughput per GPU instance

Let's talk about your infrastructure.

No salespeople. You'll speak directly with a principal cloud architect about your architecture, current pain points, and realistic timelines.

DIRECT INBOX hello@cloudspecialist.work
  • Full NDA confidentiality on all initial discussions
  • You speak with the engineer who'll do the work
  • Delivered jointly with Xavvy where governance is needed

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