Automate what slows your business down.

Compliance, internal tools and cloud infrastructure. Senior forward deployed engineers clear the way, build the fix and hand it over, so your team keeps climbing.

Where businesses lose momentum.

Every growing business hits the same steep pitches. We find the one costing you most, clear the route and leave your team climbing faster.

Compliance

“An enterprise deal is waiting on our SOC 2.”

  • SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls built into your cloud
  • Evidence collected automatically for Vanta, Drata or Secureframe
  • Security questionnaires answered from real controls
  • Segmented networks, zero-trust access and audit logging
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Internal tools & AI agents

“The team spends half its week copying data between systems.”

  • Integrations that end the copy-paste between systems
  • Internal tools your team will actually use
  • AI agents in real workflows: triage, reporting, onboarding
  • Synlets, our agentic development workforce, running privately in your cloud
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Cloud & DevOps

“Releases feel like events and the cloud bill keeps climbing.”

  • AWS, GCP or Azure, fully codified in Terraform
  • CI/CD and preview environments so changes ship daily
  • Cloud costs cut without cutting corners
  • Zero-downtime migrations, up to 64TB in production
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Choose your route

Every route starts at base camp with a free 15-minute call.

Book a free call
  • Free discovery call15 min

    Tell us where you're stuck. We'll say honestly whether we can help.

  • Discovery sprint1-2 weeks

    We scout the route: where you're losing time and what to automate first.

  • Project build4-8 weeks

    We make the climb with you: the fix, built in your accounts and handed over.

  • Fractional engineeringOngoing

    A named engineer stays roped in, improving and running it month to month.

Experienced guides, roped in with your team.

We don't hand you a report and leave. We work alongside your people, trace where the time goes and lead the climb ourselves.

  • The guide you talk to

    leads the climb. As the work grows, experienced engineers rope in, up to 10 working in parallel.

  • AI-fluent, business-first

    Every engineer works with AI at the core and starts from your goals, so what we build moves the business, not just the codebase.

  • Built in your accounts

    Code, cloud and data stay yours from the first commit.

  • Handed over, not held hostage

    Documented so your team, and their AI tools, can carry on without us.

A roped team of three mountaineers crossing a snowy alpine ridge under a clear sky

How the climb goes

  1. Talk

    A free 15-minute call about what's holding you back. We'll say honestly whether we can help.

  2. Map the route

    We trace the bottleneck through your systems and agree the scope before we start.

  3. Climb

    Working software every week, in your accounts: automation, tools and infrastructure.

  4. Summit

    Documented code, runbooks and training. Your team owns it and keeps climbing.

Proven on hard terrain.

Digital-asset custody · Compliance and platform, built end to end

Institutional custody that survives due diligence

Segregated, insurance-backed vaults for exchanges, asset managers and family offices across 50+ blockchains. We built the product, the cloud and the security architecture beneath it, including MPC key security and networks designed for institutional review.

cloudtechcustody.com.au

Synlets · Agentic development platform

An event-driven agentic development workforce

Assign a Jira or Asana ticket and Synlets' agents sharpen it, write the code, review it and open the pull request. Fully isolated and multi-tenant, scaling on Kubernetes as work arrives.

synlets.com

Web3 infrastructure · Cloud and DevOps

A region you can stop thinking about

Platform engineering across APAC: node operations, monitoring and automation where downtime is measured in money.

ankr.com

Crypto brokerage · Cloud and DevOps

Releases went from events to routine

A brokerage for high-net-worth crypto clients, running on App Engine with no infrastructure as code. We led the move to Terraform-codified Kubernetes and built the CI/CD that made shipping routine.

calebandbrown.com

More summits reached

  • B2B SaaS · ComplianceFailing Vanta checks were stalling SOC 2. Controls remediated and evidence collection automated.
  • Enterprise ad platform · Cloud64TB of production Postgres migrated with zero downtime while serving major retail sites.
  • AI voice startup · DevOpsEvery service containerised and the VM fleet moved to Kubernetes, unblocking releases.
Stas Berezin

Stas Berezin · Founder and principal engineer

Stas leads every engagement and is on your free discovery call. A decade building and running platforms for Caleb & Brown, Ankr, CitrusAd and CloudTech Custody.

The team scales with the climb: one senior engineer for a tightly scoped engagement, or a rope team of 3 to 10 working in parallel on larger builds. Every one of them is fluent with AI and starts from what your business actually needs.

LinkedIn
“Stas was someone we could hand a region to and stop thinking about it. Technically deep, communicates clearly, and the quality held at scale.”
Peter Steward
Head of Engineering, Ankr
“He led the migration to Kubernetes, codified everything in Terraform, and built the CI/CD practices that took our releases from occasional events to routine.”
Joseph Bradley
CTO, Caleb & Brown

Questions before the climb.

Anything else, ask us directly at [email protected].

Engineering done close to the problem. Senior engineers find where your business slows down, whether that's a compliance gap, missing internal tools or brittle infrastructure, then build the fix inside your systems and hand it over.

No. We work with growing businesses of all kinds, from funded startups preparing for enterprise customers to established companies whose operations have outgrown their tools.

Fifteen minutes on where you're stuck and what it's costing you. You'll leave with an honest view of whether we can help and what a sensible first step looks like. No pitch deck, no obligation.

Stas Berezin, our founder and principal engineer, leads every engagement. The team scales with what you need: one senior engineer for a tightly scoped engagement, or 3 to 10 senior engineers working in parallel on larger builds. Every engineer is fluent with AI tooling and starts from the business problem, so the work delivers real value, not just working code.

Anything repetitive that moves information between people and systems: compliance evidence, data entry, reporting, reconciliations, onboarding, ticket triage and document processing. We'll tell you when a spreadsheet is still the right answer.

No, we multiply them. Your engineers keep building the product while we take on the compliance, tooling and platform work around it. Everything is documented, and we train your team on the AI tooling we use.

Everything we build is yours. We sign NDAs, work inside your repositories and cloud accounts, and follow strict access controls. We build compliant systems for a living and hold ourselves to the same standard.

Between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. We work with businesses across Australia and overseas, on-site where it helps and remotely otherwise.

The first step is free.

A free 15-minute discovery call. Tell us where you're stuck and we'll tell you honestly if and how we can help.