accepting new engagements Β· Q2 2026

Cloud & AI infrastructure,
engineered to ship.

We design, deploy, and operate production Kubernetes β€” classical workloads or GPU-powered AI β€” and staff the engineering teams who keep it all running. Built for founders and platform leads who need to ship, not just strategize.

99.95% Platform uptime target
<14d Avg. time to first deploy
24/7 On-call coverage

Infrastructure work, end to end.

From cluster architecture to day-two operations, we deliver the pieces most teams don't have the bandwidth to build themselves.

CI/CD & GitOps pipelines

Delivery pipelines that ship safely and often. GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, progressive rollouts, and the policy guardrails to sleep through a 3am deploy.

  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD / Flux
  • Canary + Blue/green
  • OPA / Kyverno

Engineering team augmentation

Vetted SRE, DevOps, and platform engineers β€” hired, onboarded, and managed by us. You get capacity without the 90-day hiring cycle.

  • SRE & DevOps
  • Platform engineers
  • Backend / infra SWE
  • Managed on-call

Cloud architecture & migration

Lift-and-shift, replatforming, or greenfield builds on AWS, GCP, or Azure β€” with the IaC, IAM, and FinOps foundations that won't bite back later.

  • Terraform / Pulumi
  • Multi-cloud
  • IAM + SOC 2 ready
  • FinOps tagging
AI infrastructure Β· new

Ship AI in production, not in demos.

We operate the unsexy part of AI β€” the GPU clusters, the RAG pipelines, the eval harnesses, and the on-call runbooks that keep models answering correctly at 3am.

LLM Ops & inference platforms

Self-hosted and hybrid LLM deployments with autoscaling, request shaping, quantization, and full observability β€” vLLM, TGI, or Triton under the hood.

  • vLLM / TGI / Triton
  • KServe / Ray Serve
  • GPU autoscaling
  • Token-level metrics

RAG & retrieval pipelines

Production retrieval systems with vector DBs, re-ranking, caching, and evals. We wire it in, instrument it, and leave you with a system you can actually improve.

  • pgvector / Weaviate
  • Chunking + re-ranking
  • Eval harnesses
  • Drift detection

AI reliability & on-call

Model monitoring, fallback chains, prompt regression tests, red-team hooks, and a human-readable runbook. On-call coverage when the model starts misbehaving.

  • Output quality SLOs
  • Fallback routing
  • Cost & latency budgets
  • Red-team harness

Outcomes, not deliverables.

Representative engagements across fintech, healthcare SaaS, and AI startups. Names omitted under NDA.

fintech Β· series B 2025
-62%

Re-architected a monolithic ECS workload onto EKS with spot-backed node pools and right-sized requests β€” cutting monthly cloud spend by ~$48k while doubling request throughput.

EKSKarpenterTerraformDatadog
healthcare SaaS 2025
14d

Stood up a HIPAA-aligned GitOps platform from scratch β€” cluster, delivery pipeline, observability, and runbooks β€” in fourteen working days. First production deploy in week three.

GKEArgoCDVaultOPA
ai infra Β· seed 2024
3x

Scaled a GPU inference platform from a single-region prototype to three regions with autoscaling on demand β€” tripling usable capacity without increasing baseline cost.

AKSKEDANVIDIA GPU Op.Prometheus

Transparent engagements.

Pick an entry point that matches where you are. Every engagement comes with a fixed scope and a named engineering lead.

// assessment
Infrastructure assessment
$4,500 flat Β· 2 weeks

A two-week deep-dive into your current stack with a written remediation plan and a prioritized roadmap.

  • Architecture & cost review
  • Security & IAM audit
  • Reliability scorecard
  • 90-day roadmap document
  • Readout with leadership
Book assessment
// staff aug
Team augmentation
$45 / hr Β· from

Vetted DevOps, SRE, and backend engineers embedded in your team. Flexible scope, no long lock-ins.

  • Mid & senior engineers
  • Matched in < 10 business days
  • Overlap with US hours
  • Monthly or quarterly terms
  • Swap if the fit isn't right
Hire engineers

Built for results, not billable hours.

01 β€”

Hands-on, not hand-wavy

We've run production Kubernetes at companies from pre-seed to public. Every recommendation comes with a PR, not a slide.

02 β€”

Fixed scope, fixed fees

No open-ended T&M contracts. You know what you're paying for, when it ships, and what "done" looks like.

03 β€”

Own it until it runs

We don't dump architecture diagrams and walk away. We stay on-call through rollout and own day-two until your team is ready.

04 β€”

Sensible global talent

Our international engineering network gives you senior capacity at rates that work β€” without the usual staff-aug mess.

Infrastructure engineers who understand the business.

Cronexa Ventures, LLC is a Tennessee-based infrastructure consultancy. We help growing companies ship reliable software β€” and AI β€” without the overhead of a full in-house platform team.

We work best with founders, platform leads, and engineering managers who want a partner that ships β€” someone who will write the Terraform, run the postmortem, and keep the Grafana dashboard green.

HQ Tennessee, USA
Founded 2024
Focus K8s Β· DevOps Β· AI infra

Notes from the platform trenches.

Short, practical pieces on Kubernetes, AI infrastructure, and scaling engineering teams. No listicles.

The four Kubernetes defaults we always change on day one

Resource requests, pod disruption budgets, probe timeouts, and topology spread. A short walkthrough of why the out-of-the-box values bite in production.

Read the post

What GPU utilization actually tells you (and what it hides)

High GPU utilization isn't the same as doing useful work. A practical take on the metrics that matter when you're running LLM inference at scale.

Read the post

Staff aug without the staff-aug smell

Why most external engineering engagements stall β€” and the three small process changes that make embedded contractors actually feel like teammates.

Read the post

Tell us what you're building.

Share where you are today β€” a Slack screenshot works as well as a brief. We'll come back within one business day with a plan of action.

location Tennessee, United States
response time Within 1 business day