devops & platform engineering boutique

We get your
infrastructure
up & running.

A boutique DevOps practice for startups and scale-ups. We take infra from fragile and on-fire to calm, automated, and observable — then hand you the keys.

$ ssh hello@up-and-running.sh
// senior-only · remote · Zürich + EU/US hours · free infra read
~/your-infra — uar audit
the stack we live in Kafka Terraform AWS GCP Docker GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana
Senior.
every hour, senior hands
Open.
we build in your repos
Yours.
full handoff, no lock-in
Calm.
infra you can forget

What we
get running

Senior, hands-on DevOps and platform work. No junior offshore team, no 40-slide deck — engineers in your repo, shipping the boring infrastructure that keeps you live.

01 / 04
$ uar provision

Cloud &
Infrastructure

Infrastructure as code, networking, secrets, and cost control on AWS & GCP. Reproducible environments instead of a server someone configured by hand in 2021.

TerraformAWSGCPFinOps
02 / 04
$ uar ship

CI/CD &
Release

Pipelines that build, test, and deploy in minutes with safe rollbacks and preview environments. Shipping becomes a non-event, not a Friday-night ritual.

GitHub ActionsArgoPreview envs
03 / 04
$ uar stream

Kafka &
Messaging

Event streaming that scales with your domain — topics, partitions, consumer groups, and schema management done right. Kafka when the workload calls for it, not because it's trendy.

KafkaSchema RegistryKafka Connect
04 / 04
$ uar watch

Reliability &
On-call

Observability, SLOs, alerting, and a calm on-call setup. We get paged with you during the handover, then make sure you stop getting paged at 3am.

PrometheusGrafanaSLOsIncident response

From audit
to handoff

A clear engagement, every time. We earn trust with the audit, do the work in the open, and leave you with infra you actually own.

[ 00 ]

audit

Two weeks mapping your infra, spend, and risk. You get a blunt report whether or not we work together.

[ 01 ]

architect

A target architecture and a sequenced plan you own — priced, scoped, and free of magic.

[ 02 ]

build

Hands on keyboard. IaC, pipelines, platform, migrations — shipped incrementally, in your repos.

[ 03 ]

hand off

Documented, monitored, and yours. We design ourselves out — no retainer hostage situation.

embedded — fractional, ongoing project — fixed scope & price rescue — incident or audit, fast

Up & Running
Labs

Between client work we build and test our own startup ideas — on the same stack we sell. It keeps us honest: we run our own infrastructure before we ever touch yours. Here's how the lab operates.

01
Same stack
We prototype on the exact infrastructure we recommend — so the advice is tested in our own CI, not pulled from a slide.
02
Kill fast
Most ideas should die in weeks. We'd rather learn cheaply than nurse a zombie — the same discipline we bring to your roadmap.
03
Ship in public
When something's worth showing, it'll appear here. Until then we keep our heads down and let the work speak.
what we believe
Infrastructure should be invisible. Our job is to make yours so calm and automated that, on a good day, you forget we were ever there.
up-and-running.sh · how we operate
available Q3 2026 · 1–2 engagements at a time

Let's get it
up & running.

Tell us what's on fire — a migration, a flaky pipeline, a cloud bill out of control, or just no one to own infra. We'll start with a free, honest read.

$ ssh hello@up-and-running.sh
// free infra read · senior-only · full handoff, no lock-in