Practical infrastructure strategy for teams operating in the AI era.
I help DevOps, SRE, platform, and engineering teams reason through cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, reliability, governance, and the operational risks created by AI-assisted delivery.
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Modern infrastructure is not just a tooling problem.
Your Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub permissions, Kubernetes clusters, cloud accounts, SaaS integrations, and AI assistants all shape production outcomes.
The hard part isn't learning another command. The hard part is knowing what to trust, where the blast radius is, how decisions age, and whether your team can safely operate what it builds.
$ gh actions run deploy
→ permissions: write-all
✓ infrastructure modified
tickets/open: 47
tickets/p1: 3
"who owns this module?"
terraform apply
+ 47 to add
~ 12 to change
- 8 to destroy
Bring Brian into the decisions that matter.
Different shapes for the same work: helping engineers and leaders make better infrastructure decisions before they become production problems.
Strategy Review
Fixed-scope outside review of your architecture, workflows, risks, and operating model — written deliverable with prioritized next steps. Most engagements start here.
Request a Review →AI-Era Risk Review
Focused review of where AI-assisted delivery, CI/CD, automation, secrets, and SaaS integrations create operational blast radius. Increasingly common.
Discuss AI Risk →Private Workshops
Focused sessions for DevOps, SRE, platform, and engineering teams that need shared language, practical patterns, and better infrastructure decision-making.
View Workshops →Ongoing Advisory
Recurring senior outside voice for engineering leaders and platform teams making decisions around infrastructure, reliability, automation, and operational risk.
Discuss a Retainer →Speaking & Briefings
Conference keynotes, internal engineering sessions, leadership offsites, and practitioner briefings on DevOps, platform engineering, AI-era operations, and reliability.
View Speaking →Selective Mentorship
1:1 guidance for senior engineers and platform-minded technologists growing architecture judgment, influence, and operational thinking.
View Mentorship →- SaaS platforms
- Satellite systems
- Digital signage
- Platform engineering teams
- Cloud migrations
“Got our CI/CD in order and streamlined deployments for our SaaS platform.”
Allan C. · SaaS Startup
“Helped migrate us to AWS from on-prem while keeping the system up. Awesome experience.”
Mike S. · Digital Signage SaaS
“Improved and sped up deployments for our earth-station in-orbit test systems.”
Ron J. · Satellite Systems
What Teller’s Tech actually believes.
Strong opinions, plainly stated. The themes that show up across advisory, talks, podcast, and Code Duck.
AI does not replace operational judgment.
It raises the cost of bad judgment. Faster automation means faster blast radius when reasoning is shallow.
Hear this on Ship It Weekly →Your developer toolchain is part of production now.
CI/CD, GitHub Actions, runners, package registries, secrets, AI agents, and SaaS integrations are operational control planes.
Hear this on Ship It Weekly →Most Terraform problems are operating-model problems.
State boundaries, ownership, promotion paths, and review workflows fail before HCL ever does.
Hear this on Ship It Weekly →Platform engineering succeeds on adoption and ownership.
It fails when teams build portals before they understand support boundaries, paved roads, and incentives.
Hear this on Ship It Weekly →Reliability is a set of decisions, not a dashboard.
Risk, ownership, recovery, and tradeoffs — not a screen full of green checkmarks.
Hear this on Ship It Weekly →Modern DevOps training overvalues command recall.
The harder skill is reasoning through ambiguity. That's the gap Code Duck is built to close.
Hear this on Ship It Weekly →Where the judgment shows up.
The media engine, the signal filter, the lab, and the developing body of work — proof that this isn't just commentary.
Ship It Weekly
Operator-focused analysis of DevOps, SRE, cloud, platform engineering, AI, security, and reliability stories.
Listen →On Call Brief
A weekly signal filter for engineers who need to track postmortems, CVEs, outages, releases, and operationally relevant changes.
Read the latest →
Code Duck
AI-driven incident simulator that grades how you debug, not just what you type. Early access.
Join early access →Treat AI Like an Untrusted System
A practical book for DevOps, SRE, and platform engineers on adopting AI safely without giving it unchecked authority over production. In development.
Read the working draft →Get the weekly briefing in your inbox.
Security patches, postmortems, releases, and the operationally-relevant industry change you actually need to track. One short email a week, written for the on-call engineer.
Ship It Weekly
The DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News Podcast
Every week I break down what actually matters in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, and AI-driven operations. Outages, releases, tools, incident writeups — translated into lessons teams running real systems can use. The same operator-focused lens runs through the advisory, workshops, and speaking work.
Latest Episodes
Catch up on every episode of Ship It Weekly
The kinds of situations this work fits.
Less "fix this YAML." More "help us see what we're missing before we commit." A few notes from past engagements paired alongside.
Infrastructure has outgrown the operating model.
You scaled the systems faster than the ownership, review paths, and platform support model. Now everything works, just not for long.
“Teller's Tech helped get our CI/CD in order and streamlined our deployments for our SaaS platform.”
Allan C. · SaaS Startup
Terraform and CI/CD have become hard to reason about.
State, modules, environments, promotion, and cloud governance are all tangled — and changing anything risks something else.
“Brian helped migrate us to AWS from on-prem while keeping the system up. Awesome experience.”
Mike S. · Digital Signage SaaS
AI tools are entering engineering workflows without clear boundaries.
Coding agents, MCP-style integrations, and CI/CD automations have permissions and blast radius that nobody fully owns yet.
Platform teams need outside perspective.
Before committing to a tool, a portal, or a paved-road direction — you want a senior outside read that isn't tied to a vendor.
“Brian taught me DevOps practices and improved and sped up deployments for our earth-station in-orbit test systems.”
Ron J. · Satellite Systems
Leadership needs the technical story translated.
Engineering leaders need someone technical enough to challenge the details and clear enough to explain the tradeoffs to the C-suite.
You want practical AI guidance without vendor hype.
A grounded conversation about what AI changes operationally — risk, governance, review, automation — and what it doesn't.
Bring practical infrastructure judgment into the room.
Whether you need a private workshop, architecture review, advisory session, or conference speaker, Teller’s Tech helps teams think clearly about infrastructure decisions before they become production problems.