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Fix the engineering system
behind the software. Fix the engineering
system behind
the software.

Platform engineering, DevOps, and technical architecture for teams slowed down by brittle infrastructure, fragmented delivery, and unclear ownership.

Talk through your platform See platform outcomes

Change the platform.
Every team feels it.

The work is measured in developer independence, safer delivery, and operational systems that keep working after the engagement ends.

Five teams moved from manual releases to one-click delivery.
Chick-fil-A, platform and developer experience
1 / 3
3,000+ restaurants feeding the platform I owned
40% less support volume after the platform work shipped
Chick-fil-AKrogerHPCapital OneJPMorgan ChaseAmerican Airlines

Platform leverage, not more tickets.

I find the constraints slowing teams down, design the operating model, and build the paved roads that make the right way the easy way.

Talk through the constraint

Three ways to fix the system. One accountable principal.

Platform diagnosis and roadmap

A focused assessment of delivery, cloud foundations, ownership, developer friction, and operational risk. You leave with the architecture, priorities, and decisions needed to move.

Embedded platform leadership

A principal inside your engineering organization, month over month. I align teams, establish architecture and ownership boundaries, and remain hands-on while the platform and operating model take shape.

Platform build or rescue

Landing zones, infrastructure as code, delivery pipelines, observability, and recovery—or an existing platform that needs to be stabilized and made useful to developers.

Start with diagnosis, bring me in to lead the transformation, or staff the build through Valteria. I remain accountable for the architecture and the outcome in every model.

Map the engineering system

Code, cloud accounts, delivery paths, incidents, ownership, and team dependencies. Find the constraint before prescribing tools.

Build the paved road

Turn architecture into working platform capabilities, adopted with teams and shipped on a visible weekly cadence.

Transfer real ownership

Standards, runbooks, decision records, and an internal team that can evolve the platform without me.

Build the paved road
your teams can trust.

A platform is not an infrastructure ticket queue. It is an internal product that gives developers safe, repeatable ways to build, deploy, observe, and recover software.

Platform capabilities

Cloud foundations

Accounts, identity, networking, guardrails, and environments designed as one coherent system.

Self-service infrastructure

CDK or Terraform modules and golden paths developers can use without waiting on an operations queue.

Reliable delivery

CI/CD where build, test, deploy, observe, and roll back are consistent across teams.

Operable systems

Observability, incident ownership, and disaster recovery that has actually been rehearsed.

In production
3,000+
restaurants feeding one data platform
150,000
users the HP build was sized for
1 click
from merge to production
4d → 4h
recovery time after DR was rebuilt

Architecture that survives
contact with production.

Strategy matters because it changes what teams can safely do. These systems were built, adopted, operated, and measured in the real world.

Developer platform One-click delivery, architecture reviews, Go services, and rehearsed recovery adopted across five data engineering teams. Chick-fil-A
Enterprise data platform A cloud-native pipeline processing more than 20 million records every day across ECS, Lambda, and Snowflake. Capital One
Venture-backed platform The founding architecture, engineering team, and delivery system behind a $10.1M financing round and eventual technology acquisition. Founding engineer
A principal engineer working directly inside a production environment.
10 yearsin production engineering
5 teamsenabled by one developer platform
1accountable principal from diagnosis to handoff

One accountable platform principal. No architecture relay.

Valteria is the consulting practice of Vik Puttaparthi: a systems-minded technical architect with ten years across enterprise platforms, cloud infrastructure, data systems, developer experience, and production delivery.

I work where team design and system design meet. Every engagement gets direct access to me in the architecture, the code, and the decisions. When more hands are needed, engineers who have shipped with me before join while I remain accountable for the platform and the outcome.

Base
Los Angeles, works all time zones
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect and Developer, Associate
Education
M.S. MIS and B.S. Computer Science, UT Dallas
Code
github.com/LambdaLemur ↗
Before Valteria
Capital One Built an enterprise data pipeline processing 20M+ records a day on ECS, Lambda, and Snowflake.
American Airlines Built the buy, gift, and transfer products for AAdvantage miles, a revenue product at airline scale.
Startup Founding engineer. Architected the platform that anchored a $10.1M round, hired and led five engineers; the technology was acquired.
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Fix the system behind the software.

Thirty minutes on your platform, delivery model, cloud foundation, or the organizational constraint nobody owns. No deck, no pitch, just the problem.

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