Capability
FinOps
The cloud makes it easy to spend and hard to see where the money went. We bring visibility, accountability, and engineering discipline to cloud cost — so spend tracks to mission value instead of drifting quarter over quarter.
Proven where it counts
API design & development
Accelerated delivery with cost savings for two public-facing API products. Transitioned from Akamai to AWS firewall for a direct cost reduction.
- API
- AWS
- Cost Optimization
100+ microservices, event-driven architecture
Accelerated build, deployment, and scaling timelines for a large-scale program by maintaining 150+ AWS EC2 instances and a 90-microservice polyglot containerized platform.
- Java
- GovCloud
- Microservices
120-day MVP delivery
Partnered with a prime contractor to rapidly deliver an MVP web application for audit reporting — deployed within 120 days.
- 18F
- Agile
- Rapid Delivery
What we deliver
Cost Visibility & Allocation
Tagging, showback, and chargeback that turn one opaque cloud bill into spend every team can see and own.
Rightsizing & Waste
Continuous identification of idle, over-provisioned, and orphaned resources — recovering spend without touching performance.
Commitment Planning
Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and committed-use discounts modeled against real usage so you commit with confidence.
Unit Economics
Cost per transaction, per tenant, or per mission output — so spend is judged against value delivered, not just dollars.
Forecasting & Budgets
Anomaly alerts and forecasts that catch runaway spend early and keep programs inside their appropriations.
FinOps Governance
Operating models and policy-as-code that make cost a shared, engineered responsibility rather than a quarterly surprise.
Approach
Cost is an engineering metric.
Cloud cost drifts when it belongs to no one. We make it visible and attributable, then treat it like any other engineering signal — measured, budgeted, and acted on. The result isn't a one-time cleanup that erodes in a quarter; it's an operating model where teams see their spend, own it, and optimize it as they build.
- Allocation so every team sees and owns its spend
- Rightsizing and waste cleanup without hurting performance
- Commitment planning modeled on real usage
- Unit economics that tie cost to mission value
Performance engineered for efficiency. Built and supported a data warehouse capable of sub-second, high-throughput queries — performance per dollar engineered in from the start.
Technologies we work in
- AWS Cost Explorer
- Azure Cost Mgmt
- CUR / FOCUS
- Kubecost
- Terraform
- Tagging Policy
- Savings Plans
- Anomaly Detection
- Showback
- Budgets
Common questions
Is FinOps just about cutting the cloud bill?
No — it is about spending deliberately. Sometimes that means cutting waste, and sometimes it means investing more in a workload that clearly returns value. FinOps gives you the visibility and unit economics to make that call on purpose, so cloud spend maps to mission outcomes instead of drifting.
Why does FinOps matter for a federal program specifically?
Because appropriated funds demand accountability. Untracked cloud spend is both a budget risk and an audit finding waiting to happen. We build allocation, forecasting, and governance so every dollar of cloud cost is visible, attributable, and defensible — and so programs stay inside their budgets without emergency cuts.
How quickly do you find savings?
The first pass — rightsizing obvious waste and cleaning up orphaned resources — usually surfaces meaningful savings within the first few weeks. The durable gains come from the operating model: allocation, commitment planning, and unit economics that keep cost efficient as the platform grows, rather than a one-time cleanup that erodes.