Senior judgment on cost and reliability — without a full-time hire

What AKS is

AKS Engineering (AKS Software Solutions LLC) is a specialized advisory practice focused on a narrow problem done well: the cost and reliability of databases, cloud data platforms, and AI workloads. It is built on 20+ years of designing and operating distributed systems and data platforms across startups, scale-ups, and enterprise organizations.

How we're different

• Read-only by default. Diagnostics run against replicas, snapshots, or read-only credentials. We never need write access to deliver a review.
• Evidence over opinion. Every finding cites the metric, query, or configuration it came from. You can verify it independently.
• Reliability is a first-class constraint. We don't recommend a cost cut that trades away durability or availability without flagging the tradeoff.
• No vendor kickbacks. We don't resell infrastructure or take referral fees, so recommendations aren't steered by commissions.
• Senior review, not a scan. A real engineer reads your environment; automated checks inform the work, they don't replace the judgment.

On claims and results

We quantify the savings opportunity we find for your environment and show the math. We don't promise a percentage before we've looked — and you should be wary of anyone who does. The public engineering blog at rajivonai.com is the best signal of how we approach systems problems: tradeoffs, failure modes, and what actually matters when a system is under load.

Areas of depth

PostgreSQLAuroraMySQLRDSAWSGCPAzureFinOpsObservabilityLLM SystemsRAG PipelinesDistributed Systems