# Vagmi Mudumbai - Fractional CTO & DevOps Architect

> Fractional CTO and DevOps Architect helping startups and scale-ups accelerate their time to validation and market. Senior expertise without the full-time executive overhead.

## Background

I am Vagmi Mudumbai, a hands-on technology leader with over 22 years of experience. I specialize in splitting monoliths, building resilient infrastructure, and accelerating MVP development using modern stacks like Rust, Go, and Kubernetes.

- **Role**: Fractional CTO, DevOps Architect, Technical Co-founder
- **Focus**: Security, Scalability, Speed to Market
- **Stack**: Rust, Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Firecracker, AWS, GCP

## Philosophy: The AI-Augmented CTO

In the era of LLMs and AI coding agents, the bottleneck in software development has shifted from *writing code* to *architecture and decision making*.

1.  **Velocity vs. Quality**: AI allows junior developers to output code at senior velocities. Without a Fractional CTO to provide architectural guardrails, this rapidly leads to unmaintainable "big ball of mud" legacy systems.
2.  **The "Adult in the Room"**: Startups don't need a $250k/year full-time executive to manage a small team. They need high-leverage, strategic oversight to ensure security, scalability, and correct vendor selection (Build vs. Buy).
3.  **Hands-on Leadership**: I don't just draw diagrams. I write the foundational scaffolding (Rust/Go), setup the CI/CD pipelines, and establish the "Golden Paths" that allow your team—and their AI agents—to ship safely and fast.

## Services

I offer productized monthly retainers to provide predictable expertise with flexible commitment.

### DevOps Architect ($4,000/month)
*Ideal for scale-ups with existing PMF but fragile infrastructure.*
- Monthly Infrastructure Audit
- Terraform/IaC Refactoring
- K8s Upgrades & Maintenance
- CI/CD Pipeline Optimization
- Async Support + 1 Sync Call/Month

### Fractional CTO ($5,000/month)
*Strategic leadership for early-stage startups.*
- Technical Roadmap Planning
- Vendor/Stack Selection
- Hiring & Vetting (First 5 Engineers)
- Code Reviews & RFC Validation
- Weekly Sync + Board Attendance

### MVP Accelerator ($12,000/month)
*Speed to market for founders with a validated idea.*
- Hands-on Coding (Rust/Go/Typescript)
- Full-stack Implementation
- Architecturally Sound MVP
- Deployable Deliverable

## Key Projects

- **Urai Voice**: Real-time, interruptible voice intelligence service written in Rust. Hosted on GKE with CloudNativePG.
- **Thiri**: Firecracker-based VM runtime for secure, ephemeral code execution. Includes custom "Thiri Linux" distro with specialized kernel.
- **AICrete**: Infrastructure migration from Heroku to AWS EC2 with Compute Savings Plans. Custom Go-based CLI developer platform.
- **Tunecore**: Architected the split of a 10-year Rails monolith into microservices handling $1bn+ in artist payouts.

## Contact

- **Book a Meeting**: [TidyCal](https://tidycal.com/vagmi/30-minute-meeting)
- **Website**: [vagmi.ca](https://vagmi.ca)
- **Engineering Log**: [vagmi.ca/blog](https://vagmi.ca/blog)
- **LinkedIn**: [linkedin.com/in/vagmi](https://linkedin.com/in/vagmi)
- **GitHub**: [github.com/vagmi](https://github.com/vagmi)
- **YouTube**: [youtube.com/@vagmi](https://youtube.com/@vagmi)