Deployment Reliability Sprint
That knot in your stomach before every deploy? The Slack channel going quiet while everyone watches? I've fixed this for Fortune 500s and fast-moving startups alike. In 2–4 weeks, your team ships with confidence — not crossed fingers.
£15-25k • 30-min call • Free • No obligation
13+ years experience • AWS Solutions Architect Pro • GitHub Advanced Security certified
Trusted by teams at Series A–C startups, UK scale-ups, and Fortune 500s
Is this you?
You're a product team running on AWS that's outgrown the deployment setup you hacked together to ship v1.
Moving fast was the right call. Now you need to ship safely without losing that speed. I've been Head of Platform at a growing SaaS — I know this pain firsthand.
- Teams of 5–50 engineers
- Series A to C (or bootstrapped and growing fast)
- Product companies (not agencies)
- Running production workloads on AWS
⚠️ Any of this ring a bell?
- • "All hands" — deploys need everyone awake and watching Slack
- • "Just re-run it" — builds fail randomly and everyone knows the retry trick
- • Rollback? Manually. — SSH into prod and hope for the best
- • Customers tell you first — not your dashboards
- • Dave knows how — critical steps live in one person's head
- • "Works on staging" — famous last words
What you actually get
2–4 weeks. Hands-on implementation. You own all of it when I'm done.
Pipeline that just works
Repeatable builds, proper test isolation, quality gates. No more "it passed this time" or "try again."
Rollback that works
Tested procedures anyone on the team can run. Because recovery should be boring, not heroic.
Progressive Delivery
Blue/green or canary deployments where appropriate. Limit blast radius and catch issues before they hit all users.
Release Observability
Deploy markers on dashboards, release-specific alerts, and visibility into what changed when. Know the health of every release.
Post-Deploy Verification
Smoke tests and synthetic monitors that catch problems before your customers do. Automated sanity checks on every deploy.
Prioritized Backlog
A clear roadmap of what to fix next, ranked by impact. Plus a handover so your team can continue improving independently.
How It Works
A structured, fixed-scope engagement designed for predictability.
Week 1: Discovery & Assessment
Audit current pipelines, deployment processes, and incident history. Identify the highest-impact improvements.
Weeks 2–3: Implementation
Hands-on work: harden pipelines, implement rollback strategy, set up observability, configure progressive delivery as needed.
Week 4: Handover & Documentation
Runbooks, training, and a prioritized backlog for your team to continue. Optional: follow-on support retainer.
Engagement Model
- Fixed-scope sprint — clear deliverables, predictable timeline
- 2–4 weeks — depending on scope and complexity
- Optional follow-on — retainer for ongoing support and continuous improvement
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Book a free 30-minute Reliability Review. We'll discuss your current deployment challenges and I'll share specific recommendations — whether we work together or not.
Book a Reliability ReviewNo obligation • Currently booking 3–4 weeks out
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