Technical founder and engineering advisor helping teams ship faster, operate smarter, and build products worth keeping. Open to global engagements.
I'm Gaurav Tapadkar — a technical founder and independent advisor with a strong background in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, and scalable systems. My work sits at the intersection of engineering excellence and business outcomes.
With over 20 years in IT across finance, media, and manufacturing, I've seen how great engineering decisions compound over time — and how poor ones silently drain teams of speed and confidence.
I now channel that depth into helping early-stage companies and growing teams make smarter technology decisions — faster, with fewer expensive mistakes. Open to engagements globally.
Practical, senior-level technical support — without the overhead of a full-time hire.
CI/CD pipeline design, Site Reliability Engineering transformation, infrastructure modernisation, containerisation, Observability architecture and setup, and cloud-native architecture. I help engineering teams deploy with confidence and operate at scale.
Learn more →Assess, benchmark, and improve your team's software delivery performance using the DORA framework. Identify bottlenecks, reduce change failure rates, and shorten recovery times.
Learn more →Senior technical leadership for early-stage startups. I help founders make the right architectural decisions, hire their first engineers, and build a technology roadmap that scales without regret.
Learn more →Architecture reviews, technology stack decisions, vendor evaluations, and strategic engineering guidance. A senior thinking partner available on your schedule, not mine.
Learn more →Open to exploring joint ventures and advisory partnerships where there is a strong problem-market fit signal. If you're building something ambitious and need a technical co-thinker, let's talk.
Learn more →1:1 mentoring for engineers transitioning into technical leadership, or founders learning to manage an engineering function for the first time.
Learn more →Ideas in active exploration — validating problems before building products.
Managed observability for Indian SMB manufacturers — network, environmental sensors, energy metering, and compliance reporting in one subscription. Replacing manual paper logs with automated, audit-ready records from ₹12,000/month.
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A tooling suite that helps engineering teams measure, track, and improve their DORA metrics. From deployment frequency to mean time to recovery — making compliance visible and actionable.
A structured consulting practice offering DevOps assessments, platform engineering advisory, and fractional CTO services to startups and scaleups globally.
IT infrastructure, environmental compliance logs, energy monitoring, and automated audit reports — delivered as a fully managed service. No tools to buy. No engineers to hire. Starting at ₹12,000/month.
A free 30-minute conversation to understand your situation, goals, and whether I can genuinely help.
A focused engagement — usually 2–4 weeks — to diagnose the real problem and map out a clear path forward.
Structured advisory, fractional leadership, or hands-on delivery — scoped clearly with defined outcomes.
I build for sustainability, not dependency. Every engagement ends with your team fully equipped to continue.
Whether you're exploring a consulting engagement, a venture conversation, or just want to connect — I read every message personally.