P01
💸 Your cloud bill grows faster than your revenue
You keep adding services, but no one owns cost boundaries and efficiency targets.
Every monthly invoice feels like a surprise your team cannot explain.
🛡 2 AUDIT SLOTS · MAY 2026 · 1 LEFT
Your AWS bill doubled and nobody can explain why?
We map the cost, reliability, and delivery debt buried in your cloud — in 14 days, without touching production. Fixed-scope diagnostic for mid-market SaaS scale-ups on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Senior-only delivery. No juniors. No handoffs.
⬢ Read-only methodology. Zero changes to production during the diagnostic phase. No sales calls until you qualify.
AWSAzureGoogle Cloud
- 💸 FinOps layer — cost waste mapped line by line
- ⚡ Reliability layer — SLOs, MTTR, on-call posture
- 🛡️ DevOps layer — CI/CD, IaC, K8s upgrade path
- 📊 Day 4 quick-win memo · Day 14 full report + debrief
- 🧠 Senior-only delivery · operator-to-operator
THE DIAGNOSIS
Why Cloud Starts Feeling Like A Growth Tax
Most teams do not have a cloud problem. They have a systems problem.
You add tools, but delivery still slows down. You add dashboards, but incidents keep waking people up.
The real issue is missing operational design: ownership, release standards, rollback paths, and cost guardrails.
P02
🔥 Deployments take hours and still break production
Release windows become high-stress rituals with rollback panic.
Your team ships slower because everyone is afraid of the next deploy.
P03
🧯 Everything depends on one overloaded engineer
Knowledge is tribal, runbooks are outdated, alerts never stop.
You cannot scale because your operations model is fragile by design.
If this sounds familiar, here is what changes.
THE METHOD
3-Layer X-Ray Method
One audit. Three layers. Read-only access. 14 business days. One PDF + one debrief call. Zero changes to your production environment.
L1
FinOps
Layer 1 · Cost- Idle resources, unused volumes, orphaned snapshots
- Reserved Instance / Savings Plans coverage analysis
- Environment sprawl + cross-AZ traffic leakage
- Per-team / per-service spend visibility gaps
L2
Reliability & SRE
Layer 2 · Resilience- SLO discipline + alerting hygiene assessment
- On-call rotation health + MTTR distribution
- Disaster recovery posture + single points of failure
- Incident response maturity vs. team size
L3
DevOps & Ops
Layer 3 · Delivery- Pipeline maturity + deploy frequency baseline
- IaC hygiene + drift + secret management
- K8s upgrade posture + cluster lifecycle
- Observability stack coverage + signal-to-noise
Day 0 90-min kickoff
Day 4 FinOps Quick-Win Memo
Day 14 3-Layer X-Ray Report
Day 14 90-min debrief + Q&A
Day 14-44 30-day async sparring
CONFIDENCE STATEMENT
Why this is operationally safe
- Read-only audit methodology — zero changes to your production environment during diagnosis.
- Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed deliverables. Concrete artifacts: FinOps Quick-Win Memo Day 4, full 3-Layer X-Ray report Day 14, 90-min debrief call, 30-day async sparring channel.
- Senior-only delivery — no juniors, no agency layer, no scope creep.
ENGAGEMENT MODELS
Audit-first. But not audit-only.
The 3-Layer X-Ray is the front door — most engagements start there because both sides need to know what they are signing up for. After the audit, we move into one of three execution modes depending on what your team actually needs.
ENTRY · 14 DAYS
3-Layer X-Ray Audit
Read-only diagnostic across cost, reliability, and delivery. Quick-Win Memo Day 4, full report Day 14, 90-min debrief, 30-day async sparring. Zero changes to production.
Best forTeams that need a senior third-party gap analysis before committing budget.
- FinOps Quick-Win Memo (Day 4)
- Full 3-Layer X-Ray report (Day 14)
- Recorded debrief call
- 30-day async sparring channel
EXECUTE · 4-12 WEEKS
Implementation Sprint
Fixed-scope build engagements driven from audit findings or a defined initiative — IaC migration, K8s upgrade, CI/CD rebuild, FinOps controls deployment, observability stack overhaul.
Best forTeams with a clear target outcome and a pinned timeline.
- Production-ready IaC modules + pipelines
- Rollback strategy + release guardrails
- Runbooks for the new operational model
- Knowledge transfer to your team
ONGOING · QUARTERLY
Reliability Retainer
Quarterly retainer covering on-call escalation backup, monthly SLO/MTTR reviews, observability tuning, FinOps drift monitoring, and platform office hours for engineering teams.
Best forMid-market teams that want senior reliability presence without a full SRE hire.
- Monthly SLO + cost review (60 min)
- On-call escalation backup
- Observability tuning + alert hygiene
- Async Slack office hours
EMBEDDED · 2-3 DAYS/WK
Fractional Platform Lead
Embedded platform-engineering leadership 2-3 days per week — sets golden paths, mentors internal engineers, owns the roadmap for IaC + CI/CD + observability + FinOps investments.
Best forSeries B/C scale-ups bridging the gap between scrappy DevOps and a real platform team.
- Platform roadmap + RFCs
- Golden-path templates + adoption strategy
- Internal engineer mentoring
- Hiring plan for the eventual full-time team
All paths route through the same /intake form. Tell us where you are stuck and we will tell you which model fits — including "we are not the right call right now, here is who is".
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
How We Work Together
01
5 min · async
5-Min Intake Form
You answer 6 qualification questions: ARR, monthly cloud spend, team size, top pain, urgency, stack. We respond in 24h with fit verdict.
↳ Your focus: Fill the intake form. No call yet.
02
30 min · only if fit
Qualification Call
If your numbers match the audit profile, we lock scope, timeline, and read-only access. If not, you get the FinOps checklist + a referral. No pressure either way.
↳ Your focus: Show up to one Zoom call. Decide on the spot.
03
Week 1-2
Infrastructure Audit
Deep dive into your cloud setup, costs, deploy process, and reliability posture. Read-only access. Zero changes to production.
↳ Your focus: Grant temporary read-only access. I handle the rest.
04
Week 2
Roadmap Delivery
Prioritized action plan with quick wins and long-term improvements.
↳ Your focus: Review the roadmap. Pick what to tackle first.
05
Weeks 3-12
Implementation
We build alongside your team — IaC, pipelines, monitoring, cost controls.
↳ Your focus: Code reviews and async questions in Slack.
06
Week 12+
Handoff & Support
Full documentation, training, and 3 months of office hours.
↳ Your focus: Your team owns it. I'm a Slack message away.
AWS 
GCP 
Azure 
Kubernetes 
Docker 
Helm 
Istio 
ArgoCD 
Terraform 
Pulumi 
Ansible 
GH Actions 
GitLab CI 
Jenkins 
CircleCI 
Vault 
Datadog 
Prometheus 
Grafana 
Sentry 
OTel 
Elastic 
PostgreSQL 
Redis 
Kafka 
RabbitMQ 
Cloudflare 
NGINX 
Linkerd 
Snyk 
SonarQube 
PagerDuty CloudsOrchestrationIaCCI/CDObservabilityDataNetworkingSecurity
PROOF
Results Teams Actually Feel
These are the outcomes teams care about: less risk, faster delivery, and clearer cloud economics.
6+ Years in Production
5 Enterprise Industries
3 Clouds Mastered
0 Junior Engineers
Aviation Infrastructure
High-availability booking systems under global load.
Read full case study →Media Platform Operations
Content delivery at scale for peak viewership events.
Read full case study →E-commerce Performance
Resilient transaction handling during peak traffic spikes.
Read full case study →“Patryk rebuilt our delivery pipeline in two weeks. Releases stopped being scary and started being routine.”
“We finally got visibility into what was costing us money and what was creating risk.”
“The biggest win was not a tool. It was finally having a system for shipping safely every week.”
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH
90-Day Cloud Roadmap
Action plan with priorities, timelines, and expected business impact.
Infrastructure Audit Report
Clear diagnosis of reliability, cost, security, and release bottlenecks.
IaC Templates Library
Production-ready Terraform modules aligned to your stack.
CI/CD Blueprint
Release workflow templates with rollback and quality gates.
FinOps Dashboard Setup
Visibility into spend by team, project, and service behavior.
SRE Runbooks
Incident response and on-call playbooks your team can maintain.
THE OPERATOR ADVANTAGE
No account managers. No junior devs. No handoffs.
Every system is designed, built, and maintained by the same senior engineer.
- Direct Slack access. No ticketing queue. No translation layer.
- Typical consultancy: you talk to sales, get assigned a junior, wait 2 weeks for answers.
- CloudWarrior: you talk to me. I build it. It works.
Why Teams Trust CloudWarrior
I have been the engineer on 3am incident duty, trying to patch systems that were never designed to scale.
After shipping infrastructure work for major media, travel, and aviation environments, I saw the same pattern: teams bought tools, but never built systems.
CloudWarrior exists to fix that pattern for startups and scale-ups that need reliable execution, not enterprise theater.
Tools change weekly. Systems earn money for years.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Things people ask before booking.
🧮 What does this actually cost?
Pricing depends on stack complexity, cloud footprint, and audit scope. We don't list numbers publicly because the right answer depends on what we find in your intake form. Qualified teams get a fixed quote within 24h of the qualification call — no proposal-document theater, no surprises.
🔒 Why no calendar booking on the homepage?
We protect calendar time aggressively. The intake form takes 5 minutes and qualifies fit on both sides. If you match, you get a calendar link and a 30-min call. If not, you save your time and get the FinOps checklist instead.
🏗️ We already have a DevOps team / consultant. Why audit?
An audit is a second opinion, not a replacement. Read-only methodology means zero disruption to your team. Your engineers get a third-party gap analysis they can use to prioritize internal work — without the politics of self-evaluation.
⏰ We don't have time for a 14-day audit.
Your team's effort budget is 3 hours total: 1 kickoff call, 2 follow-up calls, and async questions. We read your IaC, cloud console, and observability stack ourselves. If 3 hours is too much, the FinOps checklist is the right starting point.
🧩 What if this doesn't work for our stack?
The methodology is stack-agnostic across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and the standard CI/CD ecosystem. The intake form filters out exotic stacks where we can't add value — you'll know in 24h.
🤝 What happens after the audit report?
You own the report. No retainer pressure. Optional post-audit paths: 30-day async sparring (included), monthly advisory, or a retained implementation engagement. Most teams do one of the first two.
LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Stop guessing where your cloud bleeds.
2 audit slots per month. 1 left for May 2026. Qualify in 5 minutes — no calendar booking, no sales rep, no slide deck. You get a fit verdict in 24 hours.
- No sales reps
- No junior handoffs
- Read-only methodology
- 24h fit verdict