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Infrastructure & AI Readiness Review
I look at your cloud setup, deployments, monitoring, security and costs, then write up what's working, what's risky and what I'd fix first.
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Independent consultant · Mesa, Arizona
AI, cloud & DevOps consulting in Phoenix.
Hi, I'm Neel. Codeworks is my independent consulting practice in Mesa. I help teams with their cloud setup, deployments, monitoring and AI projects, working alongside your engineers.
- You work directly with me
- Fixed-price projects
- First call is free
Service areaPhoenix metro, AZ
Where I can help
Sound familiar?
If any of these sound like your team, I'm happy to talk it through.
- Your AWS or Azure bill keeps going up and it's hard to tell why.
- Deployments are manual or stressful, so releases happen less often than you'd like.
- Outages get noticed by customers before your monitoring catches them.
- You have an AI pilot that works in a demo and you want to run it properly.
- The person who knows your infrastructure best is stretched thin, or has moved on.
- You'd like senior DevOps help, but a full-time hire doesn't make sense yet.
Services
How I can help
Most engagements start with a short review. Each project gets a written scope and a fixed price before any work begins.
cloud
AWS & Azure Cloud Consulting
Architecture, migrations and cost reviews. Setting up accounts, networking and access so they're easy to manage later.
AWSAzureCost reviewsMigrations
devops
DevOps & CI/CD
Automated build, test and deploy pipelines, with infrastructure written as code so environments can be reviewed and rebuilt.
GitHub ActionsTerraformArgoCDGitOps
kubernetes
Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
Setting up or upgrading EKS clusters, autoscaling and security policies. If Kubernetes isn't the right fit for you yet, I'll say so.
EKSHelmKarpenterIstio
sre
Monitoring & Reliability
Dashboards and alerts that are useful rather than noisy, a sensible on-call setup, and incident reviews that help problems not repeat.
PrometheusGrafanaDatadogOpenTelemetry
ai
AI Implementation
Helping move a chatbot, agent or LLM pilot into production with private deployment, access control, cost tracking and quality checks.
LLMsRAGMCPAWS Bedrock
ongoing
Part-time DevOps Support
If you need ongoing help rather than a one-off project, I can work with your team a few days a month on a monthly arrangement.
MonthlyPart-timeNo long contract
About me
A bit about me
Before starting Codeworks, I spent about ten years in DevOps and SRE roles at startups and larger tech companies. The full details are on my résumé.
2023 — 2026
Sr Software Engineer, DevOps · Life360
Worked on observability, CI/CD and internal AI tooling for the Kubernetes platform.
2022 — 2023
DevOps Consultant · Freelance
Cloud and Kubernetes setup for startups, and DevOps advice for SaaS companies.
2021 — 2022
Site Reliability Engineer · Zolve
Helped build the AWS and Kubernetes platform for a new fintech.
2019 — 2020
Site Reliability Engineer · Careem
Worked on AWS cost optimization and moving production onto Kubernetes.
2017 — 2019
DevOps Engineer · Ola Cabs
Ran CI/CD and helped migrate payment workloads from AWS to Azure.
Open-source side projects
- SRE Copilot An assistant for incident debugging that pulls metrics, logs and traces from Datadog, Kubernetes and PagerDuty.
- Eagle-Eye A single view of metrics, logs and alerts for on-call engineers.
- Claude Code Observability Local dashboards showing how a team uses AI coding tools: cost, tokens and tool usage.
Who I work with
Is this a good fit?
Usually a good fit
- Startups and mid-size companies around Phoenix running on AWS or Azure
- Software teams without a dedicated DevOps or SRE engineer
- Teams with an AI pilot they want to take to production
- Regulated teams, like finance and healthcare, that need things documented
Probably not the right fit
- Help desk, laptops, email or office IT. A managed IT provider is a better choice for that.
- Website hosting or WordPress sites
- Strategy-only AI work without anything being built
Industries Financial services & fintechHealthcareSemiconductor & manufacturingLogisticsSaaS & startups
How it works
Working together
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A free call
We talk about what you're working on and whether I'm the right person to help.
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A written proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, so there are no surprises.
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The work
Done in your own cloud accounts and repositories, with regular updates along the way.
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Handover
Documentation and a walkthrough so your team is comfortable owning it. Ongoing support is optional.
What is Codeworks?
Codeworks is the name of my independent consulting practice. When you work with Codeworks, you work directly with me, Neel Thomas Thelly.
Do you work on-site?
Yes. I'm based in Mesa and happy to come on-site anywhere in the Phoenix metro for kickoffs, workshops and planning. Day-to-day work is usually remote.
We're a small company. Is this a fit?
Often, yes. I try to recommend the simplest setup that works for your team, which sometimes means a managed service rather than something more complex.
Do you replace our IT provider?
No. I focus on the cloud infrastructure, deployments and AI systems behind your software. Your IT provider would keep handling laptops, email and office IT.
Which clouds and AI models do you work with?
Mainly AWS and Azure. For AI, hosted models like Claude or AWS Bedrock, or self-hosted open-weight models when data needs to stay in your environment.
What happens to our data?
All work happens in your accounts, under your access controls. I'm happy to sign an NDA.
How does pricing work?
Projects are fixed-price and quoted in writing after the first call. Part-time support is a monthly arrangement with no long-term contract.
Let's talk about your project.
The first call is free and there's no obligation. If I'm not the right fit, I'll try to point you to someone who is.