Your AWS account has grown faster than the team around it.
Staff-level AWS & DevOps consulting
Ship on AWS without holding your breath.
We help SaaS teams turn fragile deploys, hard-to-change cloud infrastructure, and noisy production operations into systems the team can run with confidence.
Work with Jacob and team—from the first technical review to implementation and handoff.
AWS delivery system
One operating path from change to recovery
Release path
Every change has a visible way forward and back.
Change01
Verify02
Deploy03
Observe04
Operational readiness
Reviewed release path
Versioned cloud changes
Useful production signal
Practiced recovery path
End state
Owned by the team.
Automation, signal, and judgment that stay usable after the engagement.
Staff-level delivery
Work with Jacob and the delivery team from first review through handoff.
Hands-on by default
Advice stays connected to implementation in the real system and codebase.
AWS-first, engineering-pragmatic
Use maintainable application and infrastructure patterns that fit the team.
Built for ownership
Automation and documentation stay understandable after the work.
The operating pressure
Staff-level DevOps help is hard to add at exactly the right size.
The work is important enough to slow the roadmap, but not always large enough to justify building a permanent platform team.
Why a staff-level teamDeployments depend on one or two people remembering the right steps.
Production issues keep pulling product engineers away from the roadmap.
You want staff-level DevOps help without committing to a full-time hire.
What changes
Less operational drag. More room to ship the product.
The goal is not more cloud tooling. It is a delivery system the team understands, trusts, and can keep improving.
Ways to work together
Start with the shape of help the team actually needs.
Begin with a focused review, a defined implementation, or ongoing fractional capacity. Every engagement stays tied to an operating outcome.
Compare the engagement options
From pressure to ownership
A clear path from first conversation to shipped work.
The process stays light, visible, and close to the team. No mystery phase and no handoff between people who sell and people who build.
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Understand the pressure
Start with the production risk, delivery drag, or cloud constraint the team already feels.
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Shape the plan
Map the relevant system, surface the trade-offs, and define the smallest useful operating outcome.
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Work in the system
Implement alongside the team in the real stack, with visible progress and practical decisions.
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Hand off ownership
Leave reviewed automation, useful documentation, and an operating path the team can keep using.
JWJacob Weyer · staff-level delivery team
The person behind the work
The team you meet is the team doing the work.
Jacob Weyer leads Weyer Consulting's fractional engineering team. There is no sales-only handoff—the people shaping the plan stay involved in the practical work with founders and engineers.
Hands-on
Implementation-led
Built for handoff
Common questions
Know what the engagement is—and what it is not.
Clear expectations make the first conversation more useful and keep the work focused once it starts.
01Is this advisory work or hands-on implementation?
Both. The work can begin with an assessment or technical decision, but it is designed to stay close to implementation. A focused engagement can include backend services, integrations, internal tools, pipelines, infrastructure code, observability, runbooks, and the team handoff around them.
02Do we need enough work for a full-time DevOps engineer?
No. The engagement can be shaped around a focused review, one defined implementation outcome, or fractional operating capacity when the need is ongoing but not yet a full-time role.
03Can you work with our existing engineers and tools?
Yes. The goal is to improve the system the team actually has, not force a replacement stack. The work starts by understanding current constraints, ownership, and the patterns the team can maintain.
04What is useful to share in the first conversation?
A short description of the application or AWS environment, delivery path, technical pressure, team shape, and any product, launch, or reliability timeline is enough to identify whether there is a useful starting point.
A conversation first
Make the system easier for the team to own.
Share where delivery, reliability, or application work feels stuck. We'll give you a direct read on whether we can help and where the first useful improvement sits.