Vendor concentration risk
A single hyperscaler failure, acquisition, or pricing revision can ground your operations. Concentration is a governance and resilience gap your auditors will find before you want them to.
SOVEREIGNTYFor CTOs · VP Engineering · Founders
The systems you depend on should belong to you.
Vendor concentration, egress economics, AI data liability, and audit exposure are board-level risks. Stribog designs infrastructure your team owns and operates after we leave.
5-yr TCOModeled at engagement start
Day-oneAudit trail included
No lock-inExit ramps designed in
§00/The Stakes
Board-level risks hiding in the infrastructure layer
Four structural risks have moved from engineering concerns to fiduciary ones. Ignoring them is now the higher-risk option.
Cloud economics eroding margins
Egress fees, reserved-instance complexity, and per-seat SaaS compounding at scale make the cloud-first bill a CFO problem. The 5-year TCO on self-operated infrastructure is not what the sales deck shows.
OPTIONALITYAI data liability
Training or inference pipelines routed through hyperscaler APIs introduce residency, retention, and model-improvement clauses that regulated industries cannot accept. The perimeter must move with the workload.
AUDIT-GRADEAudit readiness lag
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and FedRAMP require evidence that cloud-native architectures were never designed to produce. Retrofitting lineage and access controls costs more than building them in from day one.
EVIDENCE-BY-DEFAULT§00/The Five Pillars
§01
Sovereignty
OWN-THE-PERIMETER
Engineering teams owning the full stack they depend on — no invisible landlords, no rented foundations.
§02
Open source as method
OSS-AS-DISCIPLINE
Open source is a discipline of review, contribution, and independence — not a license type to tick on an audit form.
§03
Audit-grade rigor
EVIDENCE-BY-DEFAULT
Security and compliance aren't retrofit — they are the bar that makes self-hosting safe in regulated, serious environments.
§04
Optionality
EXIT-RAMPS-DESIGNED-IN
Anti-lock-in by architecture: every layer has a documented exit ramp so no vendor can hold you hostage.
§05
The long game
BUILT-FOR-DECADES
Systems proportioned to outlast the tools, vendors, and leadership changes that will come in the decade after delivery.
§03/Capabilities
Four domains. One organizing principle.
Every engagement maps to one or more of these domains. Depth in each — not a catalogue of marketed services.
§04/Open Source as Method
KubeVigil — Kubernetes security posture, open by default.
Open source is not a license type to tick on an audit form. It is a discipline of review, contribution, and independence. KubeVigil is the practice made visible: an open-source Kubernetes security and posture scanner — policy checks, findings with remediation paths, and architectural reasoning you can read.
§02 / OSS-AS-DISCIPLINE
Policy checksAcross cluster resources
RemediationPaths per finding
Apache 2.0Fork it, extend it
§05/Selected Work
Anonymized case studies from the field.
NDA-safe composites. No real names, logos, or identifying details — that is itself the practice.
Fintech · Payments · Regulated
A regulated payments platform
Exiting single-hyperscaler concentration
SovereigntyOptionalityAudit-grade
Migrated core settlement workloads to self-operated Kubernetes, reduced infrastructure spend, and produced a continuous audit trail for PCI DSS. Team operates independently twelve months post-engagement.
12 mo.To full operational independence
Healthcare · HIPAA · AI
A regulated healthcare SaaS
Deploying inference inside its own perimeter
Audit-gradeSovereigntyOSS-as-method
Architected a private RAG pipeline on self-hosted GPU infrastructure. Patient data never leaves the HIPAA boundary. Model governance artifacts satisfy internal compliance review without external sign-off.
0 bytesPHI egress to third-party APIs
Logistics · Kubernetes · Talos
A Series-B logistics platform
Standing up self-operated Kubernetes on Talos
OSS-as-methodThe long gameOptionality
Designed and handed off a full Talos-based Kubernetes cluster with GitOps, observability, and DR runbooks. Total cost of ownership modeled over five years. Engineering team led the first quarterly upgrade without external support.
100%Internally-operated after handoff
Executive Briefing
Thirty minutes to clarify your infrastructure risk
Walk us through your vendor footprint and regulatory constraints. We will tell you honestly where sovereignty creates leverage — and where it does not. No pitch deck. No obligation.