Common problems I help solve
When cloud infrastructure grows faster than the team managing it
"Your AWS bill keeps growing"
I help you find waste, improve cost visibility, and create practical FinOps habits so cloud spend stops growing blindly.
"Deployments are slower than they should be"
I improve Terraform, CI/CD, environments, and developer workflows so releases become safer, faster, and easier to repeat.
"Your infrastructure grew without a clear platform strategy"
I turn scattered AWS infrastructure into a platform your team can understand, maintain, and evolve with less operational risk.
"You need senior cloud expertise, but not a full-time hire"
I work as a long-term cloud partner who can guide decisions, implement improvements, and support your team month by month.
"Your Terraform became hard to maintain and every change feels risky"
I restructure modules, introduce standards and testing practices so infrastructure changes are safer and more repeatable.
"Your AWS bill grows without anyone reviewing it systematically"
Monthly cost reviews, budget alerts, and savings prioritization so cloud spend stops running blind.
Three practical pillars for AWS-focused teams
How I can help
AWS Architecture & Cost Review
A focused review of your AWS setup to uncover cost waste, reliability risks, and architecture decisions that are slowing the team down.
- ✦Current-state AWS review
- ✦Cost, reliability, and security findings
- ✦Prioritized fix list: now / next / later
- ✦Practical roadmap with clear next steps
- ✦Executive summary for your team
Terraform & AWS Foundations
Build or clean up your AWS infrastructure as code so the team can make safer changes without slowing product delivery.
- ✦Terraform structure or module cleanup
- ✦Dev / staging / production environment patterns
- ✦Remote state and workflow conventions
- ✦IAM, networking, and shared-service patterns
- ✦PR validation and team handoff documentation
Faster, Safer Deployments
Improve CI/CD so application and infrastructure changes move from commit to production faster, with fewer manual steps and less deployment risk.
- ✦CI/CD workflow review and redesign
- ✦Build, test, deployment, and rollback improvements
- ✦Environment promotion and release-path cleanup
- ✦GitHub Actions or GitLab CI implementation
- ✦Delivery documentation and team handoff
EKS Platform Stabilization & Buildout
Stabilize, rebuild, or set up EKS so your SaaS platform is reliable, cost-efficient, and easier for developers to ship on.
- ✦EKS review, rebuild, or production-ready setup
- ✦Helm chart structure and deployment conventions
- ✦ArgoCD / GitOps rollout or cleanup
- ✦Autoscaling, ingress, and secrets management
- ✦Cost-aware Kubernetes reliability improvements
Cloud Cost & Reliability Partner
Monthly senior cloud support to keep AWS costs visible, reliability work progressing, and platform decisions from blocking the product team.
- ✦Monthly AWS cost review and savings follow-up
- ✦Reliability backlog prioritization and improvements
- ✦Observability and alerting improvements
- ✦Async senior support for AWS, Terraform, EKS, GitOps
- ✦Documentation and decision records
Long-term collaboration
Long-term cloud platform support, without hiring full-time
Many teams are not ready to hire a full-time platform engineer, but they do need recurring senior help. That is where AstralDeploy fits: monthly progress on cost control, platform improvements, and reliability.
- •Monthly AWS cost review and savings follow-up
- •Reliability backlog prioritization and small agreed improvements
- •Observability and alerting improvements
- •Async senior support for AWS, Terraform, EKS, and deployment decisions
- •Documentation and knowledge transfer
Start with a free 30-minute cloud review. We will look at your current AWS setup, identify likely cost or reliability gaps, and decide whether ongoing support makes sense.
Compact examples from real AWS, Kubernetes, and platform work
Case Studies
You can read the full version of these projects on my personal site.
View full projects →SaaS platform rebuild on AWS EKS
2025The Challenge
A SaaS platform had oversized EKS clusters, weak observability, delayed patching, and deployments that depended too much on infrastructure support.
The Work
Designed a new AWS/EKS foundation with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Helm, Karpenter, KEDA, HPA, managed AWS services, and stronger backup and monitoring patterns.
The Outcome
Cloud costs dropped 67%, the migration completed without major downtime, and developers gained a GitOps delivery path they could use without waiting on infrastructure.
Platform engineering for a large AWS organization
2024The Challenge
A large engineering organization needed more consistent AWS foundations, networking, monitoring, patching, backups, and delivery patterns across many accounts.
The Work
Helped build shared platform capabilities with Terraform/Terragrunt, ECS/EKS delivery, CI/CD, GitHub runners, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, VPN, WAF, and AWS Network Firewall.
The Outcome
The platform supported 250+ developers and data engineers with more self-service patterns, less manual work, and stronger governance across AWS accounts.
AWS ECS Fargate microservices platform
2024The Challenge
An education technology product needed a production-ready backend platform without taking on unnecessary Kubernetes complexity too early.
The Work
Designed separate pre-production and production environments with ECS Fargate, API Gateway, DynamoDB, ECR, VPC, IAM, Secrets Manager, SSM, CloudWatch, WAF, and Terraform-driven CI/CD.
The Outcome
The team got automated infrastructure and application delivery, clear environment separation, managed scaling, and a secure AWS-native base a small team could operate.
A few signals from people I have worked with
What clients say
Alejandro joined us at a time when our infrastructure was disorganized, costly, and full of uncertainty. In a very short period, he rebuilt it from the ground up, successfully migrated everything, and significantly reduced costs. He also gave us back the peace of mind that comes with a stable and reliable system.
Alejandro combines strong infrastructure judgment with practical implementation. He does not just point at issues — he helps teams fix them in a sensible order.
He quickly traced a costly CloudWatch issue that had gone unnoticed and turned it into a broader improvement plan around AWS cost control and operations.
Security as part of platform work
Secure foundations, without the compliance theatre
Security is built into good platform engineering. As part of cloud infrastructure work, I review the technical basics that make AWS environments safer and easier to govern.
I do not replace your compliance auditor or cybersecurity provider. I help make your infrastructure technically cleaner, safer, and easier to operate.
Typically covered
- ✦IAM and least privilege
- ✦Public exposure and network segmentation
- ✦Encryption and secrets handling
- ✦Logging, backups, and access patterns
Direct senior involvement, no handoff to juniors
Hands-on senior cloud/platform engineering
AWS Certifications
AstralDeploy is run by me, Alejandro Rodríguez Búrdalo: a hands-on cloud and platform engineer with experience across AWS, Terraform, Linux, Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, FinOps, and production operations.
I work directly with teams that have grown beyond ad-hoc infrastructure but are not ready to build a full internal platform function. The goal is practical progress: lower waste, cleaner infrastructure, safer deployments, and calmer operations.
My niche is practical AWS platform work for SaaS and technology teams: reducing cloud waste, rebuilding fragile Kubernetes or ECS foundations, improving Terraform and CI/CD, and making production environments easier for developers to ship on and for teams to operate.
"You do not need a generic consultancy. You need the right senior partner."
What you need to know before getting started
Frequently Asked Questions
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Tell me about your AWS costs, platform issues, or reliability challenges. We can review your situation together and see whether ongoing support would be useful.
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