DevOps, SRE & AI integration for startups · Remote from Lahore (UTC+5)
Senior DevOps/SRE. By day I run PCI DSS payment infrastructure in production on AWS, Huawei Cloud, Kubernetes and Terraform. I also help businesses put AI to work, in their operations and in production, without runaway costs. Fixed-price packages, not open-ended hours.
Overlaps US East Coast mornings and the full Gulf working day.
Problems I fix
Idle resources, oversized instances, no commitments. Flexera's 2026 survey puts wasted cloud spend at 29%.
Manual steps, no rollback, and one person who knows how it all works.
From March 15, 2027, public TLS certificates max out at 100 days. Manual renewal stops scaling.
SOC 2 or PCI DSS controls your compliance platform keeps flagging: IAM, MFA, logging, encryption, backups.
No dashboards, no alerts, no on-call runbook for the night something breaks.
Pilots that never ship, token bills nobody forecast, and customer data sent to models without guardrails.
DevOps & SRE packages
Every engagement starts read-only. Prices in USD; 50% upfront, 50% on delivery.
5 business days
$750
Intro price for the first 3 clients, then $1,500.
Book the Health Check$1,200–2,000
Bill and usage analysis, rightsizing, commitments, storage and egress, idle resources. Quick wins implemented, not just listed.
At least 2× the fee in annualised savings, or no charge. For teams spending $3,000+ a month on cloud.
$2,000–4,000
Inventory every certificate, automate renewal with ACME and cert-manager, add expiry alerts and a rotation runbook. Ready for 100-day certificates.
$3,000–6,000
Terraform modules, GitHub Actions pipelines, environments, secrets management and rollback your whole team can trust.
$3,000–8,000
SOC 2 or PCI DSS: I fix the infrastructure controls your compliance platform flags, from IAM and MFA to logging, encryption, backups and access reviews.
Up to 20–30 hours a month across DevOps, SRE and AI operations, business-hours support and a monthly report. Ideal until your first DevOps hire starts.
$1,500–3,000 / month
AI integration
I help teams pick the AI use cases worth paying for, automate repetitive work, and run AI features in production with the same security and cost discipline I apply to payments infrastructure.
$750
I map your workflows, find the 3–5 tasks where AI saves real hours, estimate the monthly model cost of each, and pick models and vendors that meet your privacy needs. You get a costed build plan.
$1,500–4,000
One business process automated end to end: support triage, document and invoice processing, lead research or internal reporting. Human review where it matters, full logging and hard spend caps.
$3,000–8,000
LLM features shipped into your product safely: keys in a secrets manager, rate limits and per-customer spend caps, PII redaction, fallbacks across providers, evaluations, and cost and latency dashboards.
Selected work
Company and client details are anonymised. Full write-ups will follow.
How I work
Read-only access. I map what you run, what it costs and where it can fail.
A prioritised 30/60/90-day plan with a fixed price for each step.
Changes through code review and infrastructure as code, not console clicks.
Runbooks, diagrams and a walkthrough so your team runs it without me.
FAQ
My work is fixed-price, so you know the cost before anything starts. The Infrastructure Health Check is $750 for my first three clients, then $1,500. Projects run $1,200–8,000 depending on scope, and fractional DevOps/SRE support is $1,500–3,000 a month.
Yes. The Cloud Cost Teardown reviews usage, rightsizing, commitments, storage and egress, then implements the quick wins. For teams spending $3,000 or more a month on cloud, I guarantee at least twice the fee in annualised savings or you pay nothing.
Yes. I run PCI DSS-scoped payment infrastructure in production, and I fix the infrastructure controls auditors and compliance platforms check: IAM, MFA, logging, encryption, backups and access reviews. I don’t issue audit reports; I get your infrastructure ready for your auditor.
By sending each task to the cheapest model that does it well, caching prompts and responses, batching work that isn’t urgent, and putting hard spend limits on every feature and customer. Self-hosting open-weight models only makes sense at high volume, and I’ll tell you when it does.
Yes. I can automate a single workflow, such as support triage or document processing, or ship LLM features into your product behind your existing authentication, logging and monitoring, with privacy controls and cost dashboards from day one.
I’m in Lahore, Pakistan (UTC+5). That overlaps US East Coast mornings, most of the UK and European working day, and the full Gulf working day.
Email [email protected] to book a free 20-minute call. If there’s a fit, the Health Check or AI Review starts with read-only access, usually within a week.
About
I'm a Senior DevOps Engineer in Lahore with 4+ years running production infrastructure, today for a payments company where PCI DSS isn't optional. I take on a small number of startup projects alongside that work, so each one gets senior attention.
My favourite problems are the unglamorous ones: certificates, keys, access and audits, plus the cloud bill nobody has looked at in a year. Lately that includes AI: getting it out of the demo and into production, safely and at a sensible cost.
Bring your cloud bill, your deploy process, your audit deadline or your AI idea. You'll leave with three concrete next steps, whether or not we work together.