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KernelBloom engineers resilient foundations and practical platforms. Here's how we help.
Cloud Foundation Engineering
Establish a secure, scalable cloud architecture designed for your product roadmap and operational reality.
Typical Deliverables
- → Multi-region/multi-cloud architecture design
- → Network topology and security group strategy
- → Data residency and compliance framework
- → Disaster recovery and business continuity plan
- → Cost optimization baseline and projections
Typical Trigger
Your team is growing, regional expansion is planned, or current infrastructure doesn't map to product strategy.
Engagement Types
Strategic advisory (4–6 weeks), hands-on implementation (8–12 weeks), or hybrid.
Kubernetes and Container Platforms
Build a Kubernetes platform that development teams adopt and operate independently.
Typical Deliverables
- → Kubernetes cluster design (EKS, AKS, GKE)
- → Networking and service mesh configuration
- → Ingress, load balancing, and DNS strategy
- → Persistence, stateful workload guidance
- → Cluster scaling and node pool strategy
Typical Trigger
You're adopting Kubernetes, migrating from VMs or legacy container setups, or your cluster is fragile.
Engagement Types
Assessment and design (4 weeks), implementation (8–16 weeks), or ongoing optimization.
Internal Developer Platforms
Create a self-service platform that empowers teams to deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot independently.
Typical Deliverables
- → Platform architecture and service abstraction
- → Self-service deployment workflows (Argo CD, GitOps)
- → Environment management and promotion paths
- → Developer documentation and runbooks
- → Guardrails, policy enforcement, and security defaults
Typical Trigger
Deployment velocity is bottlenecked, on-call toil is high, or teams lack confidence in infrastructure changes.
Engagement Types
Platform design and MVP (10–14 weeks), iterative enhancement, or managed platform operations.
Infrastructure as Code and Automation
Replace manual infrastructure operations with version-controlled, testable, reproducible code.
Typical Deliverables
- → Terraform or Pulumi module architecture
- → State management and remote backend setup
- → CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure changes
- → Policy-as-code (Sentinel, OPA) governance
- → Testing strategy and plan review workflows
Typical Trigger
Infrastructure is managed manually, drift occurs frequently, or scaling to multiple environments is painful.
Engagement Types
Codification and migration (8–12 weeks), policy and testing enhancement, or toolchain optimization.
Cloud Reliability and Observability
Build observability systems and incident response practices that reduce toil and improve mean time to recovery.
Typical Deliverables
- → Observability stack design and implementation
- → Metrics, logs, traces instrumentation (OpenTelemetry)
- → Alerting strategy and on-call runbooks
- → Incident response and post-mortem process
- → SLO definition and error budget framework
Typical Trigger
Incidents surprise you, on-call engineers lack visibility, or mean time to resolution is unpredictable.
Engagement Types
Observability assessment (3–4 weeks), implementation and tuning (10–16 weeks), or managed observability.
FinOps and Capacity Planning
Control cloud spend, forecast costs accurately, and align infrastructure capacity with business growth.
Typical Deliverables
- → Cloud cost analysis and waste identification
- → Reserved capacity and commitment planning
- → Right-sizing and auto-scaling recommendations
- → Cost allocation and chargeback models
- → Forecast and budget framework
Typical Trigger
Cloud bills are rising, forecasts miss reality, or teams don't understand infrastructure costs.
Engagement Types
Cost audit and optimization (6–8 weeks), capacity planning workshop, or ongoing FinOps advisory.
Security Architecture and Compliance Readiness
Design secure cloud infrastructure and prepare for regulatory audits (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS).
Typical Deliverables
- → Security control assessment and gap analysis
- → Identity and access management architecture
- → Encryption, secrets, and data protection strategy
- → Audit logging and compliance automation
- → Incident response and forensics procedures
Typical Trigger
You're preparing for SOC 2 certification, customers require compliance, or security posture is unclear.
Engagement Types
Security architecture assessment (4–6 weeks), compliance roadmap (6–8 weeks), or managed security ops.
Platform Modernization Advisory
Evaluate and execute large-scale modernization: monolith to microservices, legacy infrastructure to cloud-native.
Typical Deliverables
- → Technology assessment and architecture comparison
- → Phased migration roadmap and risk analysis
- → Proof-of-concept implementation and validation
- → Team upskilling and knowledge transfer
- → Operations runbooks and troubleshooting guides
Typical Trigger
Legacy infrastructure is constraining growth, modernization strategy is unclear, or team lacks cloud expertise.
Engagement Types
Strategic advisory (8–12 weeks), hands-on execution (16+ weeks), or phased partnership over quarters.
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