Castles of Light delivers fixed-price infrastructure sprints and fractional CTO advisory for fintech and healthcare engineering teams. Built on infrastructure experience at Spotify, Google ProServe, and Raytheon.
A 45-minute discovery call followed by a custom 9-slide report detailing exactly how to save 5+ hours a week with AI. Guaranteed to surface 5+ hours of weekly savings or your money back.
A 5-day infrastructure deep-dive covering AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability. Delivers a 15-page Diagnostic Report with cloud-cost analysis, security findings ranked by severity, and a 90-day prioritized remediation roadmap. Includes a 1-hour readout call.
A 3-day intensive engagement to diagnose and fix your highest-impact infrastructure bottleneck. Covers AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and deployment velocity. Typical engagements recover 5-10x their cost in cloud savings within 90 days.
A hybrid audit and hardening engagement for SOC 2, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS compliance. Includes threat model with attack tree diagrams, infrastructure hardening plan, evidence package for auditors, and prioritized remediation roadmap. 60-day async support included.
A 5-day intensive engagement for AI startups. Cost and latency audit of inference pipelines including Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, and self-hosted models. Token spend optimization, PHI/PII data-flow review, eval harness, regression testing, and production observability. Terraform and GitHub Actions infrastructure delivered.
Ongoing senior technical advisory for cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, and production AI execution. Fractional CTO-level guidance without the full-time salary overhead.
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Spotify, Google ProServe, Raytheon, and AI startups.
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