Services
Six engineering areas, staffed by senior European engineers.
Service catalogue
Six engineering areas: AI/ML, backend and data, DevOps and platform, security and compliance, FinOps, and talent services. Staffed by senior engineers from a European company.
MLOps & Model Serving
Model registries, experiment tracking, managed endpoints, and drift monitoring across Kubernetes and managed cloud inference.
LLM & RAG Engineering
RAG systems with vector search, embedding pipelines, guardrails, and evaluation harnesses, built in Python and Go.
Generative AI Implementation
Fine-tuning and evaluation pipelines, quantization for cheaper inference, and generation wired into your products behind guardrails.
Agentic AI Systems
Agent orchestration, tool-calling, structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints instrumented with end-to-end tracing.
AI Platform & Infrastructure
GPU fleet management, inference cost controls, and CI/CD for models, provisioned with Terraform and FluxCD/ArgoCD.
Model Evaluation & Observability
Evaluation harnesses plus drift, cost, and latency monitoring for models running in production.
DevSecOps & Secure SDLC
Scanning, software composition analysis, and image signing wired into CI/CD gates and the development workflow.
Cloud-Native Security
Admission control, network policy, and CIS-benchmarked baselines across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes.
Policy-as-Code
Guardrails authored as OPA and Kyverno policies, enforced at admission and reported as Prometheus metrics.
Compliance Readiness
Infrastructure controls and audit evidence mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, and DORA.
Identity & Access Management
RBAC, federated identity, and least-privilege access across clusters, cloud accounts, and CI systems.
Secrets Management
External Secrets, Vault, and cloud KMS for secret storage and rotation across clusters and accounts.
API & Microservices
REST, GraphQL, and gRPC services behind API gateways, with Backend-for-Frontend composition and rate limiting.
Backend Development
Python and Go services on FastAPI and Django, with async workers, connection pooling, and idempotent request handling.
Data Pipeline Engineering
Airflow-orchestrated batch and incremental CDC pipelines on dbt and PySpark, processing only what changed.
Data Platform & Lakehouse
Lakehouse on Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery, using open table formats: Delta, Iceberg, and Parquet.
Real-Time Streaming
Event-driven ingestion on Kafka, with Flink for stateful stream processing where a workload needs it.
Data Quality & Governance
dbt tests, Great Expectations validation, data lineage, and quality SLAs enforced in the pipeline.
Platform Engineering
Kubernetes internal developer platforms with golden paths and self-service deployment.
CI/CD & GitOps
Declarative GitOps pipelines on FluxCD and ArgoCD, multi-cluster and multi-tenant.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform modules and state across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle OCI.
Cloud Migration & Modernization
Workload migration to Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle OCI.
SRE & Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for metrics, logs, tracing, and incident response.
GitHub Organization Governance
Fleet-wide repository settings, branch protection, and access managed as code across the organization.
Cost Audit & Visibility
Full cost allocation through tagging, chargeback, and showback across accounts and Kubernetes namespaces.
Rightsizing & Workload Optimization
Rightsizing recommendations from utilization data, plus cleanup of idle instances and stranded volumes.
Commitment Strategy
Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Committed Use Discounts sized to coverage and utilization targets.
Kubernetes Cost Optimization
Requests and limits tuning, bin-packing, autoscaling, and namespace cost allocation across clusters.
FinOps Governance
Tag enforcement, budget guardrails, anomaly detection, and forecasting wired into existing pipelines.
Data & AI Cost Control
GPU, inference, and warehouse cost on Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery, allocated and forecast per workload.
Staff Augmentation
An individual engineer embedded under your management, employed through Sophotech.
Dedicated Teams
A small senior unit sized to the seats you need, working on your roadmap and sprint cadence.
Team Extension
External engineers join as integrated members under your management while we retain the employment relationship.
Embedded Delivery
A defined deliverable shipped inside your environment and toolchain, by an engineer employed through Sophotech.
Contract-to-Hire
A placement through Sophotech, vetted by your own interviews, with the option to convert to direct employment.
Recruitment
Engineer-led technical vetting of senior candidates you or we surface. You hire them directly.
Looking for something not listed, or unsure which engagement model fits? We can scope a fit against your spec.
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