Digital Transformation & Cloud Consulting
From Business-Minded Experts
INNOVATE. TRANSFORM. OPTIMIZE.
Managing cloud at scale – difficulties for the enterprise
Ensuring consistent, secure and cost-effective delivery requires proactive developer-driven approaches.
- This is hard to adopt when constantly fire fighting.
- It requires un-learning and a change of mindset for existing teams (depending on current tech debt).
- Ensuring that time exists for development, documentation and testing is often overlooked or greatly underestimated.
- Siloed teams often prove problematic for fast delivery of infrastructure platforms as well as application stack requirements.
Goal
Reduce repetition, increase innovation
The goal is to build well architected, automated, compliant, repeatable, secure and cost-effective delivery systems that ensure stable and high performing production environments able to deliver required cloud infrastructure and services for application and platform teams.
- Improve delivery time from days or weeks to hours and minutes.
- Allow teams to become proactive and business-focused.
- Create a repeatable, adaptable model that can be used as a foundation for enterprise-wide transformation.
Competencies
Cloud solutions from business-minded experts
EXPERTISE
Key technical knowledge
- Cloud Migration
- CI/CD & Automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- Microservices
- Compliance
- DevOps & DevSecOps
- Big Data
- Security & Networking
- Regulatory
Team designations include:
- Cloud Architects
- Platform Engineers
- DevOps Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers
- Support Engineers
- SysAdmins
- Project Managers
- Full Stack Developers
INDUSTRIES
Core industry knowledge
- Banking (US/Canada)
- Healthcare (US/Canada)
- Fintech
- Startups
- Big Data & Analytics
Roadmap
What can we help you achieve?
DISCOVER DESIGN OPTIMIZE
Establish pain points Create the roadmap Improve the platform
ARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING
ASSESS DEPLOY MAINTAIN
Review the environment Build the foundation Support the handover
Roadmap
Architecture
DISCOVER Establish pain points
- Meet with all business and technology stakeholders to gather requirements, costs, timelines, and understand risks.
ASSESS Review the environment
Gain access to relevant technology systems to understand the state as is.
Provide architecture PoCs for proposed design and tooling, including a detailed overview of the current ecosystem and areas of improvement.
Gain approval from necessary stakeholders for design, technology and tooling choices.
Roadmap
Engineering
DEPLOY Build the foundation
Create environments using IaC.
Establish controls (change management, peer reviews, release methodology).
Establish CI/CD automation.
OPTIMIZE Improve the platform
Migrate to cloud based services.
Begin cost and performance optimization efforts.
Introduce custom monitoring, logging and BI dashboards to ensure accurate and relevant reporting for all stakeholders.
Provide thorough documentation/training for handoff to internal teams, and/or retain our engineers long-term.
Quick Stats
Achievements in our first five years
20+ SATISFIED MIDSIZE / ENTERPRISE CLIENTS ($50M+ ANNUAL REVENUE)
5+ MULTI-YEAR ENTERPRISE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS
$10,000,000+ YOY COST SAVINGS THROUGH CLOUD COST OPTIMIZATION
25+ TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS
Client Spotlight
ACHIEVEMENTS
Reduced spend by $10mm/year after a 3 month optimization effort with just two engineers.
Created a clear path to being 100% in Amazon AWS & modernized their data platform, the results of the latter presented at AWS re:Invent 2022.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Created a highly scalable custom infrastructure platform using Kubernetes for Acryl, a data startup founded by LinkedIn and AirBnB tech leaders.
Flexibility was required to adapt the solution to multiple cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP), allowing for dynamic generation of client tenants in a hosted SaaS Platform.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Eliminated regular service outages and got uptime in the “5 9’s” (99.999%) with thousands of concurrent users streaming dynamic content.
Fully automated the development team’s deployment process to reduce time to market.
Client Spotlight
Migrating to Amazon EMR to reduce costs and simplify operations at LendingClub
Key members of our architecture team spearheaded LendingClub’s multi-year Amazon EMR migration project, which was the subject of a presentation at AWS re:Invent 2022.
Using a strategic staff augmentation model, our architects and engineers integrated seamlessly with the data engineering group, providing essential leadership and SME knowledge throughout the project lifecycle.
Skills Spotlight
Full-cycle cloud migration & support by experts
ON-PREM
On-prem to cloud presence
Efficiently migrate your on-premises infrastructure to the cloud with our expert guidance. We assess your setup, select the right cloud provider, and design a tailored migration strategy. Ensure a smooth transition with minimal downtime and prioritize security.
HYBRID
On-prem & cloud presence
Combine on-premises and cloud resources seamlessly with our comprehensive hybrid cloud migration support. We evaluate your requirements, design a robust architecture plan, and implement strategies for seamless integration.
MULTI-CLOUD
Multi-provider cloud presence
Optimize your cloud strategy with our expert guidance on managing multiple cloud providers. We recommend suitable cloud combinations, design architecture for seamless integration, data portability, and workload management.
Resourcing
Why partner with us at Petabloc?
Niche technical expertise
We don’t claim to be experts in everything; we’ve focused our energy on building a team of highly skilled technicians with a core focus on cloud and DevOps. We selectively engage in projects that we know we can provide high value to from beginning to end.
Industry experience
We have extensive experience with the unique technological landscape of the financial industry. Previous and ongoing financial clients include, but are not limited to, Jefferies Group, LendingClub, Equifax, BMO and RBC, where we have been engaged for multi-year projects through integration with multiple teams.
Dedicated service
We emphasize quality over quantity and as such prefer to keep our technical team small and highly efficient. This allows us to ensure the highest quality of output and flexibility for our clients -- always.
Resourcing
How we work
Transparent
We follow development best practices, with all our processes, code, testing and builds presented in a public and reviewable forum.
Business-Driven
We ensure infrastructure delivers concrete artifacts built around business goals, and excel at communicating with both technical and business stakeholders.
Mentorship-Focused
We learn and adopt to your unique culture and requirements, helping your full time staff successfully adopt the solutions we design and implement.
Resourcing
The best approach is the one that suits you
PROJECT
Fixed duration projects to solve a specific problem
TEAM
Bring on a multi-skilled team with proven experience together
WHAT?
We provide a 360 assessment, roadmap and coaching for the problem(s) you are facing, to be implemented by your existing team.
Get the value add of cloud SMEs without the long-term commitment or cost.
Some faces from our expert tech bench
DAVID PETERKA
Chief Technical Architect
Achievements: Architect for Charter Communications' (Time Warner) first venture into AWS, including charter.net and other web properties. Led Thomson Reuter’s first foray into AWS and microservices architecture, which created the template for the entire enterprise digital transformation.
JEFFREY YU
Principal Platform Engineer
Achievements: Led LendingClub’s migration to AWS EMR, and spearheaded several cost optimization efforts. Created a customized Disaster Recovery dashboard for LC’s on-prem environment using Cloudwatch, Lambda and custom widgets.