DevOps for iGaming platforms and small tech teams
Be ready before the final starts.
Fixed-price infrastructure work, with the scope and the price in writing before anything starts.
Betting platforms do not fail on a quiet Tuesday. They fail in the ninety seconds after a goal. I find the weak spots first and fix them for a fixed price.
A night like this
Eleven minutes that cost a quarter of your players.
An illustrative scenario built from failure patterns that repeat on betting platforms. Not a client story, not a measurement.
- 21:47Kick-off in thirteen minutesTraffic is climbing steadily. Dashboards are green. The on-call phone is on a desk.
- 21:58A goal is scoredRequests jump from a few thousand to nearly a hundred thousand in seconds. Autoscaling is still deciding what to do.
- 21:58:07The database connection pool is exhaustedEvery new bet waits for a connection that never frees up.
- 21:59WebSockets start droppingLive bets disconnect. Players refresh, which makes the load worse.
- 22:03Someone finally gets pagedThere is no alert on queue lag. The first signal is a message from a customer.
- 22:09Recovered, partlyThe cost is not the minutes. It is the players who do not come back for the next match.
What I fix
Eight boring fixes that keep the night calm.
Each one is a fixed-price item with a written scope, 50% upfront, 50% on acceptance, and 14 days of free rework.
Backups with a tested restore
Set up, restored into a clean environment, and written into a runbook. 2-4 days.
Alerts that reach a real person
A page to the right engineer at 2 a.m., with a link to the runbook. 1-2 days.
CI/CD with rollback
Release on a Friday without holding your breath, with one step back. 3-5 days.
Cloud cost review
Where the bill leaks, with the top three savings implemented. 3-7 days.
Cloudflare, DNS, SSL and WAF
The basics done properly: caching rules, DDoS settings, a clean DNS setup. 1-2 days.
Load test before a peak
The real limit and the scaling lag, found a week before the match. 2-4 days.
Staging as a clone of production
A place to break things that behaves like the real one. 2-4 days.
Terraform import
Existing infrastructure brought under code, in your repositories. 1-2 weeks.
Pilot
Two or three items in one to two weeks, one contact on your side.
On-demand hours
A block of engineering time. Working hours, one-hour first response for urgent issues.
Managed environment
Ongoing care of one environment. Nights and weekends by agreement, for an extra fee.
How we start
From your message to a written scope and price.
Match night simulator
Where a typical betting stack breaks, and what fixes it.
Pick the number of concurrent players. Values are illustrative for a typical stack, not a measurement of your system.
A typical stack
Where each fix sits in your stack.
Select a node to see what it does and which fixed-price item protects it. Arrow keys move between nodes.
Selected
Runs your application containers and scales them. How fast it scales decides how a goal minute feels.
Protected by
One engineer, one owner
You talk to the person who does the work.
I am Dmytro. For five years I kept production alive for a bank with more than 20 million customers: the kind of place where nobody forgives a bad deploy. Now I bring the same discipline to platforms that live and die on one night.
- 01No account manager between you and the engineer.
- 02Everything lives in your accounts and repositories. You can walk away with all of it.
- 03If I am not the right fit, I will tell you in the first reply.
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Professional. Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana.
FAQ
Short answers.
Who do you work with?
iGaming platforms, B2B game providers and small tech teams that have no DevOps engineer or an overloaded one. If you run something much bigger or very regulated, I will say honestly whether I am the right fit.
Do you need admin access?
No. I ask for the minimum permissions scoped to the task, inside your own accounts, and revoke them on handover. Everything stays in your accounts and repositories.
What does it cost?
Each item has a starting price shown above. You get the final scope and price in writing before any work starts: 50% upfront, 50% on acceptance.
What if we stop working together?
Everything is infrastructure as code in your repositories, with a runbook and rollback steps. If we part ways, you keep all of it.
How fast can you start?
I reply within one business day with a scope and a price. For items like monitoring or Cloudflare, work can start in days.
Is it white-label?
For agencies and studios, yes: the client stays yours, with an NDA and non-solicitation in every contract.
Contact
Send me one problem.
I reply within one business day with a scope and a price. No sales call needed.