About Raphael
Senior DevOps & AI Engineer · $49/hr · Remote
I help tech companies ship faster and smarter — on-demand, flat rate, no minimums.
I’ve spent the last 8 years in the trenches: building CI/CD pipelines that deploy 50+ times a day, wrangling Kubernetes clusters at scale, designing RAG systems that actually work in production, and cutting cloud bills by 40% without breaking anything.
Along the way, I’ve worked with startups that needed their first production deployment, mid-market companies scaling from 10 to 100 microservices, and larger organizations modernizing legacy infrastructure.
What Makes My Approach Different
- Flat $49/hr — no retainer, no surprise invoices
- Senior-level work on every engagement — I don’t subcontract
- Start within 48 hours — I keep capacity open for new clients
- End-to-end ownership — from architecture design to implementation and monitoring
Expertise
Expert-Level
- Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS)
- Terraform / IaC
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
- AWS (Professional)
- Python
- Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)
Proficient
- LangChain / LlamaIndex
- Vector DBs (Pinecone, pgvector)
- LLM Integration
- PostgreSQL, Redis
- Docker / containerd
- Service Mesh (Istio)
Certifications
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional
- CKA (Certified K8s Admin)
- B.S. Computer Science
- UC Irvine