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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

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