theUNIXguys helps organizations solve infrastructure, scale, security, compliance, and technology leadership challenges with experienced, practical guidance. Fractional, project-based, or advisory. Bring in the expertise you need, when you need it.
Not every company needs another full-time senior hire. Sometimes you need someone who can understand the problem quickly, help make the right decisions, and get the work moving. We combine strategic technology leadership with deep infrastructure experience.
Fractional CTO and infrastructure leadership, architecture reviews, technical roadmaps, budgeting, vendor strategy, risk assessment, due diligence, and senior-level guidance for organizations that need experience without a permanent executive hire.
Linux, compute, storage, networking, capacity planning, hardware lifecycle strategy, data center design, colocation selection and buildout, migrations, modernization, resilience, and operational readiness.
Architecture and infrastructure reviews for growing systems, capacity bottlenecks, performance problems, availability design, operational maturity, and the hard questions that appear when yesterday's architecture meets tomorrow's traffic.
PCI DSS readiness, infrastructure security architecture, segmentation, vulnerability management, control planning, audit preparation, and translating security requirements into practical engineering decisions.
Linux architecture, platform planning, systems troubleshooting, automation strategy, lifecycle planning, migrations, and senior engineering support for environments where reliability and maintainability matter.
Infrastructure refreshes, colo moves, technical remediation, incident analysis, architecture transitions, vendor evaluations, and finite projects that need experienced leadership but do not justify another permanent position.
Our model is designed for organizations that have real technology challenges but may not need, or be ready for, another full-time senior technologist.
Your technology worked at one scale. Growth is exposing limits in architecture, infrastructure, operations, security, or process, and you need a practical path forward.
You have capable people doing the daily work, but occasionally need deeper infrastructure experience, executive-level guidance, or an independent technical perspective.
A migration, data center build, hardware refresh, compliance initiative, architecture change, or reliability problem demands expertise that will not be needed forever.
You need someone who can bridge engineering, risk, finance, vendors, and business goals without turning every decision into a technology science project.
Different problems need different levels of involvement. Engagements can range from a focused architecture review to ongoing fractional leadership.
Senior technical perspective for decisions, reviews, planning, and second opinions.
Defined expertise and leadership for migrations, buildouts, remediation, or transformation work.
Ongoing technology leadership and infrastructure guidance without adding a full-time executive role.