Independent consultant · taking on new projects · remote worldwide

A one-person platform team, without the headcount.

I'm Emre Aydinsoy, an independent DevOps and cloud consultant. For 7+ years I've run production AWS for products with millions of users. Now I do the same for your team: architecture, automation, cost and AI. You work directly with me, with no account managers, no juniors and no handoffs.

7+ yrsproduction AWS & Kubernetes
−42%AWS bill after a datacenter migration
3 → 1AWS accounts consolidated, zero downtime
17 / 17high-severity Security Hub findings closed

Services

Everything between your code and your customers.

Fixed-scope projects or ongoing support. I work hands-on in your accounts and repos, and everything I build ships as code your team owns.

New · AI automation

AI agents & automation with AWS Bedrock

Generative AI wired into your operations, inside your own AWS account. Your data stays in your VPC, and every agent is versioned and deployed like the rest of your infrastructure.

  • Bedrock agents and knowledge bases (RAG) over your docs, runbooks and tickets
  • Ops copilots: alert triage, incident summaries, post-mortem drafts
  • ChatOps in Slack and Teams, with guardrails and audit logs
  • Document and email processing pipelines on Lambda, Step Functions and S3
  • Terraform-managed, private by default, with cost per request tracked
# #incident-api · 03:12 ops-agent ▸ p95 latency on checkout-api up 4x ↳ correlated: deploy v2.41.0 at 03:04 ↳ runbook: RB-017 "DB connection pool" ↳ evidence: RDS connections 498/500 ops-agent ▸ suggested action rollback checkout-api → v2.40.3 [ Approve ] [ Open runbook ] [ Page on-call ]

Cloud architecture & migration

On-prem to AWS, account consolidations and re-architectures without drama.

  • Multi-account and VPC design
  • Phased cutovers and rollback plans
  • Aurora, ElastiCache and data moves

Kubernetes & platform engineering

EKS and ECS platforms that developers actually enjoy deploying to.

  • EKS, ECS Fargate, Karpenter autoscaling
  • GitOps with ArgoCD and Helm
  • Self-service environments

Infrastructure as code & CI/CD

No more click-ops. Every environment reproducible and reviewed.

  • Terraform modules and remote state
  • GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines
  • Health-checked releases, instant rollback

Cloud cost optimization

FinOps that pays for itself, usually within the first month.

  • Rightsizing, Graviton, Savings Plans
  • Idle and orphaned resource cleanup
  • Cost dashboards and budget alerts

Security & compliance

Audit-ready AWS without slowing the team down.

  • Private three-tier VPCs, least-privilege IAM
  • Security Hub, GuardDuty, flow logs
  • Cyber Essentials Plus readiness

Observability & SRE

Know before your customers do, and sleep through the night.

  • Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch
  • SLOs, actionable alerts, on-call setup
  • Incident response and post-mortems

Serverless & edge

Retire servers you shouldn't be patching anymore.

  • AWS Lambda and event-driven pipelines
  • Cloudflare Workers, R2, D1, Email
  • Static sites and APIs at near-zero cost

Ops automation

The boring, repeatable work, done by scripts instead of people.

  • Python, Go and Bash tooling
  • Scheduled jobs, backups, DR drills
  • VPN and access automation (WireGuard, OpenVPN)

Selected work

Results, not slide decks.

A few recent engagements. Details are shared with permission or kept anonymous.

−42%~$47.6k saved per year

Travel group: datacenter to AWS

Moved 9 on-prem servers to ECS across 3 availability zones with host-based ALB routing. Modernized the data layer to Aurora MySQL and ElastiCache, retired CentOS 6 and PHP 5, and connected the office over site-to-site VPN.

ECSAuroraTerraformGravitonMikroTik VPN
17/17high-severity findings closed

Security-first AWS for Cyber Essentials Plus

Designed a fully private three-tier VPC with dual-target flow logging and live-tested alarms. Containerized 8 production services with GitHub Actions to ECR, health-checked releases and versioned rollbacks.

Security HubVPCGitHub ActionsECROpenVPN
3 → 1AWS accounts, millions of users

Consumer app portfolio: account consolidation

Merged three production AWS accounts (60+ EC2, EKS and ECS clusters, Aurora fleets) into one multi-VPC account with WireGuard and phased DNS cutovers, while cutting monthly spend by 30–35%.

EKSECSAuroraKafkaOpenSearchWireGuard

How we work

Simple process, clear scope.

Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call. You get a written plan before any work begins.

One senior, end to end

The person on the call is the person writing your Terraform. Nothing gets lost between sales, delivery and support.

Small-team speed

No sprint-planning overhead. Decisions in Slack the same day, changes shipped in your repos as pull requests.

Automation multiplies me

Pipelines, scripts and AI agents do the repetitive work, so one person can cover what usually takes a team.

Assess

Review your accounts, pipelines and bills. Find the quick wins and the real risks.

Plan

A short written roadmap with priorities, effort and expected savings.

Build

Hands-on delivery in your repos, as code, with weekly demos.

Hand over

Docs, runbooks and a walkthrough so your team owns it.

Cloud audit

Fixed scope · 1–2 weeks
  • Cost, security and reliability review
  • Prioritized findings report
  • Savings estimate with next steps
Request an audit

Project

Defined outcome · weeks to months
  • Migrations, platforms, CI/CD, AI agents
  • Milestones and weekly demos
  • Full handover and documentation
Discuss a project

Fractional DevOps

Monthly retainer
  • Your part-time senior DevOps and SRE
  • On-call backup and incident help
  • Continuous cost and security care
Ask about availability

Toolbox

Tools I use every day.

Let's talk

Got a cloud bill, a migration or an idea for AI?

Tell me what you're working on. I reply within one business day, in English or Turkish.