Wizards of the Cloud

Build and operate, not just advise

TekMage is a cloud-native consulting practice built around a simple idea: the best infrastructure advice comes from people who are still on the hook for keeping systems up at 2am. TekMage doesn't hand off a slide deck and disappear — every engagement includes hands-on build work, and every recommendation has already been run against real, live production traffic somewhere first.

That "somewhere" isn't hypothetical. TekMage's case studies are real, currently-running production sites — not sanitized marketing copy, but infrastructure you can visit right now, with the architecture, the migrations, and the measurable outcomes documented in detail.

Enterprise experience, right-sized for you

Before TekMage, its principals held infrastructure and engineering roles at companies including Intel, PwC, Petco, and Intuit, plus consulting engagements at many other companies — managing large-scale enterprise infrastructure and leading project and workload migrations for teams operating at a scale most consultancies only talk about. That same discipline — careful planning, staged rollouts, and infrastructure that's actually operated rather than handed off — is what shows up in every TekMage engagement, scaled to fit teams of any size.

That experience is backed by credentials on both major clouds: TekMage's staff holds AWS and GCP Solutions Architect and Security certifications, so architecture and security recommendations aren't just field-tested — they're certified to the standard each platform sets for its own experts.

How engagements typically run

Every engagement starts with understanding constraints, not technology preferences: budget, team size, existing tech debt, and where the business is trying to go in the next 6–12 months. From there:

• Assess — audit the current infrastructure, deployment process, and reliability posture against what the business actually needs (not a generic best-practices checklist).
• Design — propose an architecture sized to the real constraints, with a migration path that doesn't require a big-bang cutover unless one is genuinely justified.
• Build — implement in Terraform-first, version-controlled infrastructure as code, with the same rigor used on TekMage's own production sites.
• Operate — stay engaged post-launch. Infrastructure that isn't monitored and iterated on decays; the case studies exist because ongoing operation, not a one-time deployment, is where reliability is actually won.

Where TekMage fits

Right-sized for teams that need production-grade cloud infrastructure without a full in-house platform team yet — greenfield builds, migrations off legacy hosting, or an existing setup that's grown past what ad-hoc scripts and manual deploys can safely handle.