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Cloud consulting
billed on results,
not hours.

I partner with organizations to deliver measurable ROI — reducing cloud costs, lowering security risk, and accelerating infrastructure automation. You pay based on the value delivered.

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/ 01 — services

Productized offerings.
Real outcomes.

Three priced-on-results offers, custom AI agents for your platform team, and open-ended consulting. You only pay based on the value I deliver — measured against numbers we agree on before kickoff.

01

Cloud Cost Optimization

Eliminate waste, right-size infrastructure, and implement automated controls. Hands-on with your team — whether you run Terraform, Pulumi, or ClickOps.

5% of savings
02

Security Risk Reduction

Automate remediation, build compliance-as-code, and reduce critical findings by 80%+. Works with any CSPM tool you already use.

Outcomes-based
03

Terraform Accelerator

IaC migration strategy, module development, CI/CD setup, team training. Start adopting infrastructure-as-code quickly and securely.

Fixed price
04

Platform & DevOps AI Agents

I already run agents for PR reviews, AWS cost optimization, security remediation, and responding to incidents and platform health events. Yours are built for your exact stack and hosting environment, deployed securely, and designed to keep model costs low.

Custom build
05

Cloud Architecture & DevOps

AWS landing zones, multi-account strategies, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect. GitHub Actions, serverless modernization, infrastructure automation.

Consulting
/ 02 — pricing

You pay for the result.

Pricing models are written down before kickoff. No timesheets, no scope-creep retainers — the receipt is on the wall.

Cost Optimization

Audit + plan Included
Monthly spend (example) $40,000
Annual spend $480,000
Typical savings ~20% $96,000
Engagement fee (5%) $4,800
You keep / yr $91,200

Security Risk Reduction

Findings audit Included
Remediation automation Included
Compliance-as-code Included
Critical findings reduction 80%+
Pricing model Custom / outcomes
Quoted per outcome Let's scope

Terraform Accelerator

Migration strategy Included
Module development Included
CI/CD pipeline Included
Team training Included
Pricing model Fixed price
Package starts at $18k
/ 03 — how it works

A short, honest engagement.

Most consulting hides behind hours and ambiguity. This one trades that for a fixed shape: discover, define, execute, hand off.

Step 01

Discover

A free 30-minute call to understand your environment, your goals, and the numbers we should be moving. No deck, no sales pitch.

Step 02

Define

We agree on the measurable outcomes — dollars saved, findings closed, modules shipped — and the pricing model that ties my fee to your result.

Step 03

Execute

Automation-first delivery, hands-on with your team. Everything as code, reviewed in PRs, deployed through your existing pipelines.

Step 04

Hand off

You leave with working infrastructure, documentation, runbooks, and the team confidence to extend it without me. Sustainable, not sticky.

/ 04 — projects

What I build when no one's watching.

I build these on nights and weekends, mostly because I enjoy it. A few are live products, one won a hackathon, and the rest are experiments I learned from. It's the same work I bring to client projects.

Babia

MCP + PWA

A newborn log for twins, built for one hand at 3am. Bottles, changes, naps, and meds in two taps, shared live between both parents' phones, with push alerts when a bottle is overdue. Babia is also an MCP server, so a parent can tell Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini "Ada had 4 oz twenty minutes ago" and it lands on the shared log.

TypeScriptBunReactPostgreSQLMCPRailway
babia.app instagram

Get Connected Fast

Data API + MCP

Which internet providers actually serve a US address or ZIP code, straight from FCC broadband filings, down to the share of homes each provider reaches. The same data runs as an MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can answer "what internet can I get here?" with real coverage numbers.

TypeScriptAstroCloudflare WorkersD1H3MCP
getconnectedfast.com api docs

DataRaven

SaaS

Cloud-native data transfer SaaS built on rclone. Move data between S3, GCS, R2, B2, Wasabi with dry runs, monitoring, and transfer planning.

PythonFastAPIrclone
dataraven.io

ShinyBets

Real-time data

Sports odds tracking and analysis covering 25+ sports. Real-time ingestion, processing, visualization.

PythonPostgreSQLStreamlitRailway
shinybets.com

Slackrock

Serverless AI

Slack LLM bot built on AWS Bedrock. Brings Claude into Slack workspaces with serverless scaling.

PythonBedrockLambdaSlack Bolt
github.com/coreylane

ResolverOne

Archived

Winner of the IPinfo 2025 Lite Hackathon. It answered IP geolocation lookups over DNS TXT records, with no API keys and no HTTP overhead. The service is offline now, and the docs stay up as a record.

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r1.shiny-pebble.com

More on GitHub

Open source

Terraform modules, AWS Config rules, automation scripts, and side experiments. All open.

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github.com/coreylane →
/ 05 — stack

Five platforms.
Picked to fit.

I don't sell one cloud — I pick the one that matches your budget, compliance, and team. Here's how I usually slice it.

Enterprise / regulated

AWS

Multi-account, multi-region landing zones; Control Tower + AFT; Direct Connect + Transit Gateway. 8x AWS certified.

Edge & security

Cloudflare

CDN, DDoS, DNS, Workers, Zero Trust. Essential across any infrastructure.

Startups & MVPs

Railway

Developer-first, predictable pricing. Best for $5-500/mo workloads that need to ship this week.

SMB balance

Digital Ocean

Predictable infra for small-to-medium business — managed Kubernetes, ecommerce, content sites.

Cost-optimized

Oracle Cloud

Generous always-free tier, competitive egress. Great for side projects and dev/stage environments.

/ 06 — industries

Where I've
done this before.

Patterns transfer across industries, but the regulatory and operating constraints don't. These are the verticals where I can quote chapter and verse.

Financial Services

AWS ProServe alum

Enterprise transformation at the world's largest financial institutions.

  • SOC 2 + PCI-DSS frameworks
  • Multi-account isolation
  • Direct Connect hybrid
  • Control Tower + AFT
  • SCPs and guardrails

Fintech

Move fast, stay compliant. Security built in from day one.

  • CI/CD with security gates
  • Shift-left scanning
  • PCI-DSS readiness
  • SOC 2 evidence automation
  • MVP→enterprise scaling

Ecommerce & MarTech

High-traffic platforms with global reach and seasonal spikes.

  • Cloudflare + CloudFront CDN
  • ECS/EKS auto-scaling
  • Multi-region active-active
  • Real-time data pipelines
  • Zero-downtime deploys
/ 07 — about

The person you'll
actually work with.

No bench, no offshore. Engagements run by Corey, end to end. That's the trade-off — you get senior delivery and direct accountability, but I can only run a handful of projects at a time.

Founder Corey Lane • Austin, TX

Infrastructure automation for day-zero startups through Fortune 100.

I'm an infrastructure automation expert specializing in cloud architecture, security, and DevOps. Currently Lead Cloud Platform Engineer at Orion; previously a Cloud Infrastructure Architect at AWS Professional Services, where I delivered transformation engagements at five of the world's largest financial institutions.

Before AWS, I was a Linux Enterprise Engineer at Rackspace and a Technical Sales engineer for Watson & Cloud Platform at IBM. That mix — enterprise scale plus startup agility — is what I bring to every project.

Pragmatic

Practical, cost-effective tech that fits your budget, timeline, and team — AWS when you need it, Railway when you don't.

Automation first

Everything as code. Reproducible, testable, maintainable. Manual toil is technical debt.

Security by design

Built into every layer from day one. Automated controls, continuous monitoring, shift-left practices.

Knowledge transfer

You leave the engagement with the docs, runbooks, and team confidence to keep going without me.

Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect ProAWS DevOps Engineer ProAWS Security SpecialtyAWS Advanced NetworkingAWS SysOps AdministratorAWS Developer AssociateAWS Solutions Architect AssociateAWS AI PractitionerHashiCorp Terraform Associate

Cut cloud spend.
Keep the savings.

A free 30-minute conversation about your environment, your numbers, and whether an outcomes-based engagement makes sense. No deck, no pressure.

Book a call → hi@shiny-pebble.com