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“Victor helped us out quickly by setting up observability in our k8s clusters. Highly recommended.”

Jouke·Comper

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Scope & Architecture

End-to-End

Full Project Delivery

Cloud Native

Consulting & Guidance

Our services

From architecting the cloud estate to building the applications that run on it. We take technical ownership from scope to production, so your team can focus on the product itself.

Cloud Infrastructure

Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure design and implementation with focus on reliability, security, and cost efficiency

We help organisations of any size land sustainably in the cloud, whether through Kubernetes, virtual machines or a hybrid setup. From first migration to a production-ready platform that grows with you.

Cloud ArchitectureKubernetesCI/CD & GitOpsServerlessInfrastructure as CodeSecurity Reviews

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Kubernetes & Platform Operations

Cluster upgrades without downtime and GitOps delivery with Argo CD, so changing the platform stops being the thing everyone avoids

Kubernetes is rarely the problem by the time a cluster needs attention — the pods are running. What has accumulated is a platform nobody wants to change. We run the upgrade against a rollback path agreed in advance and leave a runbook for the next one, and move delivery to GitOps so promotion is a pull request and rollback is a revert.

Cluster UpgradesGitOps DeliveryArgoCDTerraformRKE2 & RancherEKS, GKE & AKSRunbooks & Handover

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Observability & Monitoring

Installation and tuning of observability pipelines for your infrastructure and applications, from OpenTelemetry instrumentation in your code to multi-cluster monitoring in one place

We install and tune a monitoring stack that fits your environment — Prometheus and Grafana, the full LGTM stack, or Datadog — with alerting that fires on real conditions and dashboards built around the questions you ask during an incident. Where the gap is in the applications rather than the infrastructure, we instrument your code with OpenTelemetry: traces across service boundaries and metrics the application emits itself, vendor-neutral so the data outlives your current backend. Running more than one cluster, we centralise it into a single store with long-term retention, so there is one place to query instead of a dashboard per island.

Monitoring ArchitectureOpenTelemetryPrometheusLGTM StackMulti-ClusterThanos & MimirDatadogAlerting Strategy

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Featured Service

Observability& Monitoring

By the time your users report a problem, you have already lost. Good observability is more than dashboards: it is the right signals at the right moment, without noise and without your team having to live inside a dashboard.

Request rate (req/s)

api-gateway92ms

data-ingestion67ms

queue-worker84ms

cache-layer18ms

< 5 minMean Time to Detection

Real-timeMetrics & Alerting

Full StackInfrastructure Coverage

Prometheus & GrafanaOpenTelemetryDatadog Cost ReductionSaaS to Self-Hosted MigrationThanos & Long-Term StorageAlerting StrategyLog ManagementSLO / SLA Tracking

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Customer Story

getcomper.ai

AI-powered code intelligence platform

Comper continuously analyses millions of lines of code to map risk, ownership, and software evolution. Their platform processes customer software repositories around the clock, so operational excellence and strong monitoring are essential.

Delivered

Full observability stack on Kubernetes: Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and Grafana with centralised storage and remote ingestion from multiple clusters
Grafana Alloy as a unified OpenTelemetry agent for full telemetry collection on every node
Long-term storage in S3 via Thanos with multi-resolution downsampling and automated retention

Why it mattered

Before this engagement the production platform had no observability, so infrastructure outages went unalerted.
The team now has direct visibility into how production actually behaves: what is running, what is degrading, and where time is being spent.
Alerting fires on real conditions, so problems are found and diagnosed before they reach customers.
The foundation is in place to keep operating and scaling on: new services and clusters plug into the same stack without rebuilding it.

Jouke

Victor helped us out quickly by setting up observability in our k8s clusters. The setup is highly available and Victor was very responsive during the whole process, and also available for quick finetuning and setting up extra alerts after the installation. Highly recommended.

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Kubernetes & Platform Operations

Your platform runs. The problem is what happens when it has to change. We make upgrades routine and deployments reviewable, so the cluster stops being the thing everyone is afraid to touch.

Build & migrateCluster Creation

Argo CDGitOps Delivery

Multi-clusterUpgrades & Scale-Out

Cluster UpgradesGitOps DeliveryArgoCDTerraformDeprecated API AuditsPod Disruption BudgetsRKE2 & RancherEKS, GKE & AKSRunbooks & Handover

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Engagements

Fixed scope, so the price is known before the work starts.

01Cluster Upgrade Runway€5,500

1 week

Deprecated API audit across your workloads
Upgrade validated against a production-like environment
Production upgrade with your team watching
A runbook they run the next one from

02GitOps Foundation€8,500

2 weeks

Repository layout that scales past the first team
Promotion as a reviewable pull request
Secrets handled properly rather than committed
Drift detection when the cluster leaves Git

+Both, taken together€12,500

3 weeks

Larger multi-cluster platform work is quoted after a short scoping call. Advisory and smaller scoped work runs at €100 per hour.

Engagements & Rates

Transparent pricing

Most work runs as a fixed-scope project, so you know the cost before we start. Advisory work and smaller tasks run hourly. All prices exclude VAT.

Hourly rate

€100per hour, excl. VAT

For advisory work, reviews and smaller scoped tasks.

Fixed-scope projects

Observability Health Check

€5,7501 week

A focused audit of your existing stack: signal-to-noise review, alert hygiene, storage and cost analysis. Delivered as a written remediation plan with prioritised actions your team can execute themselves.

Telemetry pipeline and retention review
Alert and on-call hygiene assessment
Storage and cost optimisation analysis
Written remediation plan with priorities

Production Observability Stack

€15,0003–4 weeks

A complete, production-grade observability platform on a single Kubernetes cluster — the stack we built for Comper. Metrics, logs, traces and profiles, with long-term storage and alerting your team owns afterwards.

Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and Grafana
Grafana Alloy as unified OpenTelemetry collector
Long-term storage in S3 with downsampling
SLO-aligned alerting and team handover

Multi-Cluster & Scale-Out

from €30,0006–8 weeks

For platforms running several Kubernetes clusters: federated querying, multi-tenancy and retention strategy that stays affordable as telemetry volume grows.

Federated Thanos global query and compaction
Multi-resolution downsampling and retention policy
Multi-tenancy and access control
SLO definition and error budget tracking

Expertise & Approach

Our consultants collaborate closely with your team to understand your technical landscape and business objectives, identifying key opportunities for growth. From there, we turn complexity into clarity—providing structured guidance and a clear, actionable path forward.

Available for flexible engagement models: embedded team augmentation for organizations seeking specialized expertise, or comprehensive end-to-end project delivery. Whether integrating as a technical team member or leading independent initiatives, the focus remains on delivering production-ready solutions that emphasize Infrastructure as Code, automation-first principles, and sustainable architecture.

Industry Certified

We value industry certifications to showcase our skills and commitment to keeping up with the developments in the industry.

Kubestronaut
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA)

Cloud Native Platform Engineer (CNPE)
Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate (CNPA)
Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA)
Certified Argo Project Associate (CAPA)
Cilium Certified Associate (CCA)
Istio Certified Associate (ICA)

OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA)
Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer

PCAP – Certified Associate Python Programmer

Victor Brinkhorst

Principal Consultant & Founder

Software Development

Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · Go

Infrastructure

Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Ansible

Cloud Platforms

AWS · GCP · Azure · OVHcloud

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Collaboration built on expertise

Based in Zeist, we partner with organisations that value hands-on engineering and pragmatic solutions. Our consultants work alongside your team to design, build and operate scalable systems that fit your business.

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