About
A workshop, not an agency.
We are a small, owner-operated workshop. We take on a small number of engagements at a time and refuse to be 'capacity'. The model is what lets us do good work and write about it.
Atelier Ops applies architect, DevOps, MLOps, SRE and SecOps best practices to platform engineering teams. Each engagement runs in its own isolated company workspace — paved roads, ADRs, evidence, and a documented exit.
Why a workshop?
Most platform-engineering consulting fails for the same reason most platform-engineering teams fail: too much surface, too little ownership. The workshop model lets us pick a small surface, own it deeply for 6–12 weeks, and hand it back with a written record of every decision.
How we staff
One or two principals per engagement, sometimes a third specialist. Senior people, paid like senior people, billing only the hours they bill. We don't run a pyramid.
What we won't do
- Bench staffing or 'capacity' contracts.
- Compliance theatre disconnected from real engineering work.
- Paid SaaS recommendations where a self-hosted option fits the team.
- NDAs that prohibit us writing publicly about our methods (the methods are the product).
Engineering principles
- Decisions are recorded. If it isn't in an ADR, it didn't happen.
- Paved roads, not platforms. Narrow tools you can leave beat broad systems you can't.
- Evidence over pageantry. Compliance is a by-product, not a track.
- Refuse work we can't ship. Sometimes the right deliverable is a memo.
- Be wrong in public. The writings page exists to keep us honest.
Founder
Denis K. — fifteen years across platform engineering and SRE leadership at companies between fifty and five thousand engineers. Background in distributed systems, on-call sustainability, and the political surface around platform adoption. Writes regularly on the writings page.
Want to talk to us? hi@atelierops.net — we reply within a business day.