Konstantin B.

Your cloud bill is not a fixed cost. It's an engineering problem - and I solve it. Most companies overpay AWS or GCP by 30-70%. The money is hiding in untagged resources, oversized nodes, idle NAT gateways, and architectures that were designed to work - not to scale economically. I find it, I fix it, and I deliver measurable ROI within the first 30 days. With $900K+ earned on Upwork, 100% Job Success Score, and 19+ years as a CTO and Cloud Architect, I bridge Engineering and Finance - translating infrastructure complexity into business impact your CFO can read. Typical Problems I Solve → AWS or GCP costs are too high and growing month over month → No visibility into what's driving cloud spend → Need a cloud infrastructure audit before scaling → AI workloads are expensive and unpredictable to run → Compliance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA) creating engineering debt → Architecture needs redesign for cost-efficiency before next funding round Proven Client Results ▪️ Shoebacca (Large US E-commerce) → Challenge: AWS costs exceeded budget by 40%, with no tagging, no FinOps governance, and no cost visibility. → Solution: EKS rightsizing, NAT/ALB/EBS audit, serverless Lambda migration, full FinOps governance with cost allocation tags. → Business Impact: $264,000 annual savings - AWS costs cut by 75% in one week. ▪️ US Influence Platform → Challenge: Monthly AWS bill uncontrolled, infrastructure unaudited, site latency degrading. → Solution: Infrastructure audit + Terraform migration + reserved instance strategy. → Business Impact: Monthly AWS bill reduced by 50%. Site latency improved as a bonus. ▪️ ChilliSauce (UK Event Agency) → Challenge: AWS ECS/Fargate costs growing with no optimization strategy. → Solution: Continuous FinOps management, ECS rightsizing, Fargate cost controls. → Business Impact: 30% cost reduction maintained continuously. ▪️ Datos Health (Israeli HealthTech) → Challenge: No monitoring or alerting on GCP infrastructure - production issues discovered by users. → Solution: Monitoring and alerting built from scratch with Prometheus and Grafana on GCP. → Business Impact: Zero production blind spots. Engineering team now detects issues before users do. Core Delivery Areas → Forensic Cloud Cost Audits - identify immediate 20%+ savings before writing a single line of IaC → FinOps in CI/CD - cost guardrails embedded directly in your deployment pipeline, not managed by your finance team → AI workload cost optimization - GPU orchestration, vector database cost management, LLM infrastructure efficiency → Spot/Reserved Instance Strategy & Orchestration → Serverless architectural redesign (Lambda, ECS/Fargate) for cost-efficient scaling → DevSecOps: SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA compliance, Zero Trust architecture, IAM hardening Stack: AWS (EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront) · GCP · Terraform · Kubernetes · Docker · GitHub Actions · ArgoCD · Prometheus · Grafana · Datadog · Apache Kafka · PostgreSQL · AI workloads Available during US business hours (EST/PST overlap). Cloud cost optimization is the highest-ROI DevOps investment in 2026. Send an invite - I'll show you exactly where your cloud budget is leaking.