AI & Technology Efficiency · Roberta Soliman

Do more with AI. Spend less on technology.

We find where AI can remove operational work and where technology costs more than it should, then implement the improvements with software, cloud and open source. In real projects: ~US$18K/month less in infrastructure spend, -45% MTTR and ~15 h/week saved with automation and AI. On-site in São Paulo and remote for Brazil and Latin America.

  • AI & Automation
  • Software & Web
  • Cloud & Platform Engineering
  • Observability & SRE
  • FinOps & Open Source
  • Web Growth & Analytics

Results from real projects

Results from past projects, not a guarantee of future outcomes.

Success stories

Real results from cloud infrastructure, migration and cost optimization projects.

-US$18K/month

FinOps and Platform Engineering program: from managed AWS to optimized Kubernetes

A cross-cutting cost reduction and platform modernization program: PostgreSQL moved from Amazon RDS to StackGres, workloads moved from ECS to Kubernetes, Spot capacity with Karpenter and KEDA for demand-based scaling, lower network costs and a review of managed services. Consolidated program result: roughly US$18,000 per month in reduced infrastructure costs, while maintaining reliability and performance.

FinOpsPlatform EngineeringKubernetesStackGresKarpenterKEDA
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-35% Load Balancer costs

Load Balancer cost reduction with APISIX

Consolidated TCP and HTTP service exposure behind an APISIX API gateway, removing the need for one NLB or ALB per service. What looked like a minor networking detail became a FinOps initiative: fewer load balancers, lower recurring network costs and a single point for routing, authentication and observability. Result: a 35% reduction in Load Balancer costs.

APISIXFinOpsKubernetesAWS NLBAWS ALBNetworking
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-45% MTTR

Building an internal observability platform

Evolved isolated monitoring into integrated observability, with an in-house stack of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir and Pyroscope centralizing metrics, logs, traces and profiling. Result: faster incident investigation, with signals correlated in one place and a 45% reduction in MTTR.

PrometheusGrafanaLokiTempoMimirPyroscope
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-40% deploy time

Pipeline standardization with reusable templates in Azure DevOps

Migrated manual deployments and ad-hoc scripts to standardized GitOps pipelines in Azure DevOps, with reusable templates shared across projects, automated validation and predictable rollbacks. Result: a 40% reduction in deploy time and less pipeline configuration rework.

Azure DevOpsCI/CDGitOpsTemplatesAutomation
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15h/week saved

AI agent for incident triage and resolution

The engineering team spent excessive time analyzing logs and alert metrics to identify the root cause of incidents. I built an AI agent integrated with Slack and Datadog that analyzes logs and metrics in real time, suggesting fixes for recurring errors. Initial triage now happens in seconds, drastically reducing MTTR.

LangChainPythonOpenAIDatadog
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4x more throughput

Microservices architecture refactor and API optimization

The main API had high latency during peak hours due to concurrency bottlenecks and inefficient database queries. I restructured the persistence layer, implemented distributed caching strategies and refactored critical flows for asynchronous processing. Average response time dropped from 1.2s to 180ms, supporting four times the concurrent requests on the same infrastructure.

GoNode.jsRedisPostgreSQLgRPC
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AI & Technology Efficiency Assessment

Find where AI saves work and where technology saves money

A fixed-scope assessment on two fronts: operational efficiency (processes AI and automation can take over) and technology efficiency (cloud, Kubernetes, databases, observability, SaaS, managed services, open source alternatives and AI spend). Each opportunity becomes a business case with gain, effort, risk and priority, and whatever is prioritized can be implemented.

Deliverables

  • AI and automation opportunity map
  • Cost analysis of cloud, infrastructure and SaaS
  • Open source alternatives evaluated by TCO
  • Impact, effort, risk and payback estimates
  • 30/60/90-day roadmap and implementation plan

How much time and money is your technology wasting?

If your company is dealing with unstable deployments, backend that's hard to maintain, AI prototypes that never ship, or rising cloud costs without clarity, we can talk about an efficiency assessment.

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A first conversation to understand the context and assess whether it makes sense to work together.

Services

Six connected fronts, from AI and software to the cloud platform, reliability, cost reduction and digital growth. One-off projects or ongoing support.

Less manual work, AI in production

AI and Automation

We automate processes that eat up your team's hours with AI and workflows, and put agents, RAG and LLM integrations into production, with observability and cost control per model, agent and workflow.

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From website to system, from MVP to scale

Software and Web

We build APIs, backend, frontend, internal systems, MVPs and digital products, with an architecture designed to scale and to be maintained. The focus is solving the business problem, not selling technical hours.

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Infrastructure that scales and ships fast

Cloud and Platform Engineering

We modernize cloud, Kubernetes and delivery pipelines to cut deploy time, give teams autonomy and get the platform ready to grow, with infrastructure as code, GitOps and predictable rollback.

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Visibility to act before users notice

Observability and SRE

We create visibility into your operation to find failures faster and reduce downtime, with metrics, logs, traces, alerts and SLOs that help your team handle incidents with less effort.

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Visible costs, TCO under control

Technology Cost Optimization

We reduce the total cost of running technology without sacrificing security, availability or the ability to innovate: cloud, Kubernetes, databases, SaaS, managed services and AI. Open source comes in when the TCO makes sense, not by default.

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A digital presence that converts

Web Growth and Analytics

Building and modernizing websites and landing pages with technical SEO, performance and tracking set up from day one, so you can see which channels and actions actually generate leads and sales.

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How the consultancy works

Principles that guide every project, from assessment to delivery.

Transparency

Risks, decisions and trade-offs documented and shared with your team throughout the project.

Data-driven

Before-and-after metrics for every change: cost, deploy time, latency, MTTR.

Production focus

Solutions that actually run in production, not just in a prototype or a slide deck.

Fast onboarding

The work starts with an efficiency assessment, with quick wins in the first weeks.

Knowledge exchange

Documentation and mentoring so your team stays autonomous after delivery.

Long-term partnership

One-off projects or ongoing support, matched to each company's stage, without unnecessary complexity.

How it works

A practical approach to understand the current environment, prioritize risks and deliver sustainable improvements in infrastructure, backend and AI.

  1. 01

    Initial conversation

    Understand the context, current pain points, technical goals, constraints and the maturity level of the team.

  2. 02

    Technical assessment

    Assess infrastructure, cloud, Kubernetes, pipelines, observability, security, costs and operational processes.

  3. 03

    Action plan

    Prioritize risks, improvements, quick wins and deliverables based on impact, urgency and complexity.

  4. 04

    Execution or ongoing support

    Implement improvements or support the team through execution with safety, documentation and governance.

Experience built in real environments

Experience built across technology, retail, SaaS and international environments.

Free resources

Calculators, checklists and practical guides on AI, Kubernetes, FinOps and platform engineering.

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Free toolKubernetes savings calculatorEstimate your monthly savings with Karpenter, Spot, off-hours shutdown and Graviton. Free toolKubernetes Spot cost estimatorSee what Spot really saves, after On-Demand fallback and Savings Plans. Free toolEKS hidden costs calculatorEstimate what you pay and what you can recover on NAT Gateway, cross-AZ traffic and forgotten EBS volumes. Free toolSavings Plans estimator for KubernetesHow much to commit, what it saves and how far usage can fall before it loses money. Free toolKubernetes manifest checkerPaste your manifests and see what is missing on requests, probes, PDB and spreading. Runs in your browser. Free toolKubernetes and FinOps maturity quiz8 questions to find your level in cost, platform, reliability and delivery. Free toolKarpenter NodePool generatorGenerate Karpenter v1 NodePool and EC2NodeClass YAML with Spot, Graviton and consolidation. Open sourcespot-readiness: which workloads run on SpotOpen source CLI that checks whether your Kubernetes workloads tolerate Spot interruptions. Open sourcegraviton-readiness: which workloads run on GravitonOpen source CLI that checks manifests and images to find which Kubernetes workloads can run on arm64. Open sourcerightsizing-check: inflated Kubernetes requestsOpen source CLI that compares CPU and memory requests with observed usage (files or Prometheus) and tells you what to set. Free e-book · PDFKarpenter on Kubernetes e-bookHow to cut cost and improve node scaling with Karpenter. Free e-book · PDFHidden EKS costs e-bookNAT Gateway, cross-AZ traffic and EBS volumes: where the cost hides and what to fix first. Free checklist · PDFKubernetes FinOps checklistRight-size, scale on demand and use Spot safely. Free checklist · PDFAmazon EKS upgrade checklistPreflight, bake period, node and add-on order and safe rollback.

Technical stack

Terraform, Kubernetes EKS and observability on the infrastructure side; backend across multiple languages; LangChain, RAG and LLMs on the AI systems side.

Cloud

AWSGCPAzureMagalu Cloud

Kubernetes & Containers

KubernetesEKSGKEAKSDockerDocker SwarmHelmKustomizeKEDAKarpenter

IaC & Automation

TerraformCrossplaneAnsiblePuppetVagrantBashPowerShell

CI/CD & GitOps

Azure DevOpsArgoCDJenkinsGitLab CIGitHub ActionsNexus

Observability & SRE

PrometheusGrafanaLokiDatadogCloudWatchAlertmanagerPagerDutyElastic APM

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisInfluxDBSQL ServerOracle

Networking & Security

KongAWS WAFALB/NLBAkamaiIstioCalicoVaultKeycloakFalcoAWS Secrets Manager

Languages

PythonGoBashGroovyNode.jsPowerShell

Backend & APIs

Multiple languagesNode.jsGoExpressFastifyGinRESTgRPCGraphQL

AI & Agents

LangChainLlamaIndexRAGOpenAI APIAnthropic APIpgvectorPineconeEmbeddings

Practices

SREDevOpsGitOpsFinOpsPlatform EngineeringIncident ManagementKanbanScrum
About

About Roberta Soliman

I am Roberta Soliman, a Tech Lead working across Platform Engineering, software architecture and AI systems — from design to backend, from infrastructure to production operation.

I have experience architecting and operating critical platforms in AWS, GCP and Azure with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and observability; developing backend systems and APIs across multiple languages; and building AI systems with RAG and agents integrated with LLMs.

My work connects technical strategy, hands-on execution and production reliability, helping companies design solid architectures, reduce operational risk, and ship AI systems that actually reach production — not just a prototype.

My focus is to deliver practical, sustainable solutions aligned with each company's current stage, without unnecessary complexity.

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Education

  • Postgraduate degree in Software Architecture — FIAP
  • MBA in Cloud Computing Projects and Architectures — FIAP

Certifications and courses

  • DevOps & SRE Speedy — XP Educação
  • Microsoft Azure — Microsoft
  • Cloud Computing & Data Science — FIAP
  • DevOps & Agile Culture — FIAP

Languages

  • Portuguese: native
  • Technical English for reading, documentation and asynchronous communication

Get inspired

Technical notes based on real infrastructure, backend and AI projects.

Free e-book · PDF

Karpenter on Kubernetes

A practical guide to cutting cost and improving node scaling on Kubernetes with Karpenter, based on real projects.

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Free e-book · PDF

Hidden EKS costs e-book

NAT Gateway, cross-AZ traffic and EBS volumes: where the cost hides and what to fix first.

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Free tool

Kubernetes savings calculator

Estimate your monthly savings with Karpenter, Spot, off-hours shutdown and Graviton.

Estimate savings
Free tool

Kubernetes Spot cost estimator

See what Spot really saves, after On-Demand fallback and Savings Plans.

Estimate Spot savings
Free checklist · PDF

Amazon EKS upgrade checklist

Preflight, bake period, node and add-on order and safe rollback, in one page.

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Free checklist · PDF

Kubernetes FinOps checklist

Right-size, scale on demand and use Spot safely, with results from real cases.

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Talks and community

Participation in events and initiatives such as DevOpsBootcampLive, AWS Members Day and BrazilClouds Talks, sharing hands-on experience in infrastructure, Kubernetes and service mesh.

Volunteer work

Support for public-school students from Capão Redondo through the admissions process to international universities.

Reduce dependency and cost with open source when the TCO makes sense

We evaluate managed services and proprietary tools, calculate the total cost of ownership and identify open source alternatives that genuinely save money, without trading license cost for operational complexity.

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Open source projects

Alongside consulting, we maintain technical projects and open source initiatives focused on automation, infrastructure, backend and knowledge sharing.

Repository

spot-readiness

A CLI that tells which Kubernetes workloads can safely run on Spot and what to fix in the rest. Reads manifests (Helm, kustomize) or the cluster, with table, JSON and CSV output, and a container image.

GoKubernetesSpotFinOpsKarpenter
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Repository

Azure DevOps Exporter

Prometheus exporter for Azure DevOps (Repos, Boards, Pipelines and Releases) with DORA metrics support. Kubernetes-ready, with a Helm chart, Grafana dashboard and alert rules included.

GoPrometheusAzure DevOpsDORAKubernetes
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Repository

Library Jenkins for Windows

A support library for Jenkins pipelines in Windows/PowerShell environments, making automation, standardization and CI/CD step reuse easier.

JenkinsPowerShellCI/CDAutomation
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Repository

N8N Workflow Automation

An installation and setup guide for n8n with Docker, PostgreSQL and Slack integration, focused on workflow automation and integrations.

n8nDockerPostgreSQLSlackAutomation
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Frequently asked questions

How does the technical assessment work?

A fixed-scope assessment on two fronts: operational efficiency (processes AI and automation can take over) and technology efficiency (cloud, Kubernetes, databases, observability, SaaS, managed services, open source alternatives and AI spend). Each opportunity becomes a business case with gain, effort, risk and priority, and whatever is prioritized can be implemented. Deliverables: ai and automation opportunity map, cost analysis of cloud, infrastructure and saas, open source alternatives evaluated by tco, impact, effort, risk and payback estimates, 30/60/90-day roadmap and implementation plan.

What is the working process?

01. Initial conversation · 02. Technical assessment · 03. Action plan · 04. Execution or ongoing support. A first conversation to understand the context and assess whether it makes sense to work together.

What services do you offer?

AI and Automation (Less manual work, AI in production); Software and Web (From website to system, from MVP to scale); Cloud and Platform Engineering (Infrastructure that scales and ships fast); Observability and SRE (Visibility to act before users notice); Technology Cost Optimization (Visible costs, TCO under control); Web Growth and Analytics (A digital presence that converts).

Do you build websites and handle SEO and Analytics?

Yes. Building and modernizing websites and landing pages with technical SEO, performance and tracking set up from day one, so you can see which channels and actions actually generate leads and sales.

Do you always recommend open source?

No. We reduce the total cost of running technology without sacrificing security, availability or the ability to innovate: cloud, Kubernetes, databases, SaaS, managed services and AI. Open source comes in when the TCO makes sense, not by default.

Can I hire a one-off project, or is it always ongoing?

Work can start with a technical assessment and continue as one-off projects or ongoing support in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, software architecture and AI engineering.

Which clouds and technologies do you work with?

Clouds: AWS, GCP, Azure, Magalu Cloud. Terraform, Kubernetes EKS and observability on the infrastructure side; backend across multiple languages; LangChain, RAG and LLMs on the AI systems side.

Where do you work and in which languages?

São Paulo, Brazil · on-site in São Paulo and remote for Brazil and Latin America. Portuguese: native. Technical English for reading, documentation and asynchronous communication.

How do I get started?

Book an initial conversation through Calendly, or reach out by WhatsApp, email or the contact form on this page. The first conversation is to understand your context and see whether working together makes sense.

AI, automation and technology efficiency consulting for companies in Brazil and Latin America

The consultancy supports companies that want to cut manual work with AI and automation, reduce cloud, Kubernetes and SaaS costs, evaluate open source alternatives by TCO, evolve infrastructure and backend, and improve their digital presence with websites, SEO and Analytics. Work can start with an efficiency assessment and continue through focused projects or ongoing support in AI, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, FinOps and software architecture.