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Engineering Clarity
for Hard Systems Problems

20+ years designing and operating distributed systems, data platforms, and AI infrastructure at scale. AKS Engineering offers select architecture advisory, technical reviews, and principal engineering engagements.

You may need this if:

  • Your Aurora or Postgres bills are spiking and you do not know why
  • Your AI agent is hallucinating SQL or making dangerous database calls
  • A database migration has stalled and the cutover window is shrinking
  • You need a second opinion on an architecture before you commit to it
  • Your team needs principal-level judgment without a full-time hire

Services

Practical database, cloud, and AI systems support for teams that need senior engineering judgment without a full-time hire.

Database Health Checks

Review configuration, indexes, query plans, backups, replication, capacity, and operational risk. You get a short findings report with prioritized fixes.

Performance Tuning

Slow query triage, wait analysis, connection pool review, index cleanup, and workload-specific tuning for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, and cloud databases.

Database Migrations

Migration planning, compatibility review, cutover design, rollback strategy, dual-write or CDC patterns, and risk review for commercial-to-open-source and cloud moves.

Backup & Recovery Review

Validate whether backups are restorable, recovery targets are realistic, failover behavior is understood, and runbooks match the actual production system.

Remote DBA Support

Part-time database operations help for teams that need expert review, incident support, maintenance planning, release checks, or a second set of eyes on risky changes.

AI & Agent Systems

LLM application architecture, RAG pipeline design, agent orchestration frameworks, evaluation infrastructure, and production guardrails for AI systems.

Database Engineering

Schema design, query optimization, migration strategy, and operational runbooks for PostgreSQL, MongoDB, vector databases, and multi-model data platforms.

Cloud & Distributed Systems

Multi-region architecture, reliability engineering, cost optimization, and system design for AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI. CAP theorem tradeoffs made concrete.

Architecture Reviews & Audits

In-depth technical review of existing systems: design gaps, scaling bottlenecks, security posture, and a prioritized remediation roadmap you can act on.

Cost Optimization & License Governance

Cloud spend analysis, right-sizing, and reservation strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI. Software license inventory system design — tracking entitlements, usage, and renewal exposure at scale.

Technical Leadership

Principal engineering advisory, engineering strategy, hiring criteria, and technical due diligence for investors and acquirers evaluating a codebase or team.

System Design Coaching

Team workshops on distributed systems, database internals, and production architecture patterns. Interview-ready system design preparation for senior engineers.

Free Engineering Tools

Quick calculators and selectors for teams planning database moves, architecture decisions, and AI data platform sizing.

Migration economics

Oracle / SQL Server to PostgreSQL ROI Calculator

Estimate license exposure, migration effort, and payback scenarios before you start a platform move.

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Architecture selection

Data Store Architecture Selector

Compare relational, document, cache, search, vector, and event-driven storage patterns against workload constraints.

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Migration readiness

Database Migration Readiness Checklist

Check schema, workload, cutover, rollback, observability, and ownership gaps before a migration enters execution.

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AI data platforms

Vector Database Sizing Estimator

Plan rough storage, embedding, index, and query-volume assumptions for RAG and semantic search systems.

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How Engagements Work

No retainer traps. No mystery pricing. Three steps from first contact to active work.

01

Discovery Call

30-minute free call. You describe the problem; we dig into the questions that usually get skipped. No pitch deck, no NDA required to start.

02

Scope & Proposal

Written proposal with clear deliverables, timeline, and fixed-price or retainer options. No surprise invoices at the end of the month.

03

Active Engagement

Advisory calls, async Slack reviews, written architecture documents, or fully embedded work — matched to what your team actually needs.

Engineering Field Notes

The blog at rajivonai.com is the best signal of how AKS Engineering approaches systems problems — architecture tradeoffs, failure modes, real-world database behavior, and AI infrastructure decisions written for practitioners.

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About AKS Engineering

AKS Engineering (AKS Software Solutions LLC) brings 20+ years of experience designing and operating distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure across startups, scale-ups, and enterprise organizations.

Engagements are offered on a project and advisory basis — for teams that need principal-level judgment on architecture, database systems, and AI infrastructure without a full-time hire.

The engineering blog at rajivonai.com is a public record of production experience — what breaks, what scales, what the textbooks miss, and what actually matters when a system is under load.

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