Building the InfraForge AI Inference Lab
How we engineered a zero-to-edge inference cluster for 99.95% availability using k3s and vLLM — including cost-aware autoscaling and multi-tenant model routing.
Book a Call →Cut your cloud bill. Ship faster. Keep it reliable.
I build production systems that pay for themselves and help you find money in your cloud. FinOps audits, SRE consulting, and AI automation delivered.
Limited to 4 audit slots per month. 30-min calls have a 24-hour buffer.
99.99%
Service Uptime
$216K/yr
Average Cloud Savings
4h→15m
Deploy Cycle
8
Infra Products
Services
Flat-fee engagements with SLAs you can depend on. Every dollar is forecasted; every outcome is measured.
FinOps Audit
Cloud Cost Optimization
You provide your last AWS bill (in CSV) the day before the audit. I provide a prioritized remediation plan and ROI calculator. Project fee due in 30 days; if $0 saved, you don’t pay.
- ✓ 90 minutes deep-dive call
- ✓ Prioritized 15-item remediation plan
- ✓ Predicted monthly savings ($ to $)
- ✓ $5K flat, 30-day money-back guarantee
Platform Engineering
GitOps & DevSecOps
Architecture I can ship once: Argo CD, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kyverno, Prometheus/Grafana + automated infra release validation. I deliver a platform SLA for your teams, not by them. Any stack — EKS/GKE, on-prem, or bare metal.
- ✓ Live production clusters on day +15
- ✓ Platform SLA ≥99.95%
- ✓ $8K+ fixed scope, payments milestone-based
AI & Automation
RAG/LLMOps
I build and operate AI features you can count on: token-cost-optimized RAG pipelines, LLM gateway with auto-fallbacks, and observability from ForgeWatch. Solution includes warm-start model guidance and ops playbooks.
- ✓ Model topology & cost engineered up front
- ✓ Runbook & alerting integrated
- ✓ $5K package, 30-day acceptance test
Proof in Action
FinOps audits uncover low-hanging cash you didn’t think existed. Here’s what we found for Kansas Infotech.
Cloud Cost Audits: $72K → $54K/mo for.
Kansas Infotech engaged me to audit their AWS bill. I analyzed 4 services with idle ports, over-provisioned instances, and Reserved Instance mis-matches. Implemented rightsizing and Reserved Instance purchases. Effective monthly savings: $18,000 (25% reduction) — realized in 30 days, verified via billing.
Book Your Audit →Live audits available every 2 weeks with 1-day on-call buffer. Your savings begin the moment we start.
Products That Scale
Digital guides for engineers who want to move fast and not break things.
Guide
FinOps Weekend Playbook
18-page pocket guide that turns your AWS bill into a map of hidden cash. Checklist-style with screenshots, CloudWatch metrics queries, and free AWS Budget setup template.
$19
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Incident Runbook Template
Monitoring-driven on-call notebook that cuts MTTR and pager noise. JSON & YAML snippets included, opsgenie step-by-step, and chronicle page templates.
$19
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GitOps Production Field Guide
Tactics that lowered deploys from 4 hours to 15 minutes at IRS and NASDAQ remote. Includes reusable Helm charts, automated release validation cloud-agnostic and Argo CD configurations for GitOps native.
$29
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K8s Production Checklist
37-item production-grade checklist to audit your own cluster — resource constraints, PDB, RBAC/RBAC-validate, PSPs, NetworkPolicy & prometheus-operator alerts. Pass/Fail the list and you’re ready.
$39
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GitOps beyond Hello World: Where Most Fail and How to Win
From the trenches: production Go binaries corrupted by Helm upgrade, and how we engineered image validation gates and per-namespace CI-driven deployments that outlived the team that shipped them.
Book a Call →99.99% Ain’t a Metric — It’s a Culture
Kubernetes shared tenancy at scale. When $216K/yr uptime for 1M+ monthly API requests is on the line, reliability becomes maintenance.
Book a Call →About
Tayoca builds products that pay for themselves and infrastructure you can trust at the same price.
We operate under the principle: every dollar forecasted, every hour instrumented, every service observable. FinOps and SRE aren’t departments – they’re the operating standard we embed from day one.
Metrics We Ship By
- Deploy to prod in ≤15 min, any cluster, any region
- Mean time to production recovery ≤5 minutes any incident
- Cloud bill ≤80% baseline calculated prior to engagement
Stop overpaying for cloud.
Start with a free 30-minute audit.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We’ll analyze your cloud bill on the spot and tell you if there’s money to save. No commitment, no pressure.
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