Built by engineers,
for engineers.
Orbital DevOps is a collective of senior infrastructure engineers who got tired of watching great teams struggle with problems we already knew how to solve.
Our Story
We started Orbital DevOps in 2018 after a combined 30+ years working inside some of the world's most demanding infrastructure environments — hyperscalers, fintech unicorns, and frontier AI labs.
The pattern we saw everywhere was the same: brilliant product engineers being held back by infrastructure that didn't scale, CI/CD pipelines that took 45 minutes, and Kubernetes clusters no one fully understood. Incidents were frequent, deployments were feared, and cloud bills were eye-watering.
We knew these problems were solvable. Not with magic — but with the right architecture, the right tooling, and engineers who had seen this before. That is what Orbital DevOps is: a small, highly specialized team that embeds with you and fixes things properly.
What we are deeply good at
Built from a decade of production experience — not certifications on a slide deck.
Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
- Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Architecture
- Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Platforms
- Internal Developer Platforms (IDP)
- Self-Service Infrastructure & Golden Path Enablement
- Private, Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Architecture
Automation & IaC
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Ansible)
- CI/CD & GitOps Workflows (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions)
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/DR)
- Capacity Planning & Performance Engineering
MLOps & AI Workloads
- MLOps & AI Workload Orchestration
- Model Deployment, Scaling & Monitoring
- GPU Cluster Management
- LLM Serving Infrastructure
Security & Compliance
- DevSecOps Implementation & Security Audits
- Zero-Trust Architecture & Container Security
- IAM & SSO Architecture (Keycloak, OIDC, OAuth2)
- Secrets Management & Dynamic Credential Provisioning (Vault)
- Policy-as-Code (OPA / Kyverno)
Observability & SRE
- Observability & Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
- Site Reliability Engineering (SLI/SLO/SLA Design)
- Incident Response & Runbook Automation
- OpenTelemetry & Distributed Tracing
Infrastructure & Networking
- Linux Systems Architecture
- Advanced Kubernetes Networking (Cilium, Istio)
- Cost Optimization & FinOps Practices
- Bare-Metal & Edge Deployments
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
CNCF-certified — every senior engineer on the team
Meet the team
Everyone you see here will actually work on your project.
Alex Rivera
Founder & Principal Engineer
13 years building distributed systems and Kubernetes platforms. Former Staff Engineer at a Fortune 100 cloud provider. Kubernetes upstream contributor (sig-autoscaling). Speaker at KubeCon NA 2022 & EU 2024.
Specialties
Certifications
Jordan Kim
Senior DevOps Architect
11 years in DevOps and SRE. Specialized in CI/CD transformation and GitOps adoption. Led platform migrations at two unicorn startups. Maintainer of the Argo Project documentation.
Specialties
Certifications
Sam Osei
AI/ML Infrastructure Lead
10 years in ML systems engineering. Built GPU cluster infrastructure for large language model training at two frontier AI companies. Deep expertise in distributed training, model serving, and MLOps pipelines.
Specialties
Certifications
Dana Patel
Security & Compliance Engineer
12 years in DevSecOps and cloud security. Former CISO advisory consultant. Led SOC2 Type II and HIPAA compliance programs for 20+ SaaS companies. CNCF Security Technical Advisory Group member.
Specialties
Certifications
How we work
Our principles shape every engagement.
Senior-only engagements
Every engineer on your project has 10+ years in production environments. We don't use your engagement to train junior staff.
Opinionated but humble
We have strong opinions shaped by hard-won experience — but we listen first, understand your constraints, and adapt.
Open source citizenship
We give back to the ecosystem that built us. Contributors to Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Prometheus, and more.
Async-first, globally available
Engineers across US, UK, and AU time zones. We work in your tools: Slack, Linear, GitHub — not our own portal.
Milestones
Kubernetes 1.0 — we were there from the beginning
First production K8s cluster at 1,000+ nodes
Orbital DevOps founded
First AI/ML GPU cluster deployment (128 A100s)
KubeCon speaker, 200th cluster milestone
LLM inference at 10,000+ tokens/sec in production
Want to work with us?
Tell us what you are building. We will respond within one business day with honest thoughts — even if we are not the right fit.
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