about

Twenty years on the infrastructure side.

Focal Plane is my consulting practice. I take a small number of clients at a time so the work stays hands-on.

I am Gerard Ceraso, principal at Focal Plane. Most recently engineering manager for DevOps at Buoy Software, running multi-cluster EKS through ArgoCD. Before that: a $20B ticketing marketplace moved off bare metal into Kubernetes, a 12,000-node security platform, and a long run of cloud bills brought back down. CISSP since 2010. The through-line is the same everywhere: infrastructure declared in code, deployments the team can run without me, and a bill somebody understands.

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How I work

A call

Thirty minutes. You describe what hurts. If I am not the right person, I will say so.

A two-week look

Fixed fee. I read your Terraform, your pipelines and your bills, then hand you a written plan you own whether or not you hire me again.

Build or advise

Hands on the keyboard, or alongside your team while they do it. Whichever gets you off the critical path faster.

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