When your vendor can't fix it and hiring an SRE isn't worth it — that's the gap I work in.
By day I run production distributed systems; on the side I take on a few clients through NextDevOps when the problem is interesting and the team is sharp.
Fractional platform engineering for teams that can't afford downtime.
NextDevOps is a one-person consultancy focused on production data platforms and Kubernetes operations. Engagements are short, scoped, and async-friendly — typically a few hours a week over a defined period, or a fixed-scope project with a clear deliverable.
A financial-institution client had a recurring technical issue sitting adjacent to our product — not in it. The vendor–customer dynamic kept cycling the same ticket. We broke the cycle.
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