Consulting

What I Do

Kubernetes & Containerization

Whether you're evaluating container orchestration for the first time, maturing an existing platform, or building green-field infrastructure from scratch — We can help.

  • Strategy review and gap analysis for existing clusters
  • Green-field cluster design and build-out
  • Migration from VMs or bare-metal to containers
  • CI/CD pipeline integration and GitOps adoption
  • Vertical/Horizontal Scaling and Cost optimization

AI-Assisted Quality & Toil Reduction

AI tooling has matured to the point where teams can meaningfully reduce repetitive work and catch defects earlier. I help businesses identify where AI can have the most impact and safely integrate it without adding complexity.

  • Identifying high-toil workflows that are good AI targets
  • Business productivity tooling and IDE integrations
  • AI enabled knowledge base with chat features

Tech Refresh, Migrations & Integrations

Legacy systems slow teams down and create risk. I help organizations modernize aging infrastructure and software, migrate between platforms, and connect systems that don't talk to each other.

  • Legacy application and infrastructure modernization
  • On-prem to cloud migrations
  • Database and data platform migrations
  • API and third-party system integrations
  • Dependency and runtime version upgrades

Staff Augmentation & Engineering Leadership

Sometimes you need experienced engineering leadership without the overhead of a full-time hire. I embed with teams as a staff-level engineer or fractional engineering leader to drive technical direction, develop your team, and help you hire well.

  • Staff engineer — hands-on technical leadership and architecture guidance
  • Fractional VP / Director of Engineering
  • Engineering team structure and process improvement
  • Hiring — role definition, interview design, and candidate evaluation

Business Process Automation

Beyond engineering, AI and automation can dramatically improve how a business operates day-to-day. I help companies automate the manual, error-prone processes that slow teams down — from sales pipelines to marketing workflows.

  • Sales pipeline automation and CRM integrations
  • Marketing workflow automation and lead nurturing
  • Document processing and data extraction
  • Cross-tool workflow orchestration

Get in Touch

Reach me at chad@chadprey.com.