About Sivanvika

An independent engineering practice for companies whose platform has grown faster than the team that maintains it.

Who we are

Operators first

Sivanvika Technologies was founded on a simple observation: most platform failures are not caused by exotic technical problems. They are caused by ordinary engineering decisions made under pressure, without enough visibility, and never revisited.

We built this practice to do the unglamorous work properly. Environments defined in code. Pipelines that fail loudly instead of passing quietly. Alerts that mean something. Documentation that matches reality because someone is accountable for it.

That approach is deliberately boring. It is also the reason systems built this way tend to stay up.

What we believe

Principles

Automate the repeatable, document the rest

If you have done it twice, it should be a script or a runbook. Ideally both.

Make the safe path the easy path

Good defaults beat good intentions. If the secure option is also the fastest one, people use it.

No black boxes

You should be able to understand and change your platform without us. That is the goal, not a side effect.

Say when something is not needed

Not every problem needs Kubernetes, a service mesh, or a rewrite. Sometimes the answer is fewer moving parts.

How engagements run

Working together

Small engagements, clear scope, and work that lands in your repositories rather than a private account somewhere.

Direct

You work with the engineer doing the work. No account management layer, no resold hours, and no ambiguity about who is accountable.

Yours

Code lives in your repositories under your licences and your cloud accounts. Nothing is held hostage behind our access.

Incremental

Work arrives in reviewable steps. You see and approve each one, so nothing surprising reaches production.

Measured

Success is defined before we start: a deploy frequency, a recovery time, a cost figure. Not a vague sense that things improved.

The team

Who you will work with

ST

Founder & Principal Engineer

Leads all engagements and owns the technical direction. Focused on platform, DevOps and security engineering, and on the systems that page people at night.

Backgrounds in: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, CI/CD, security engineering, incident response.

Work with us

If that sounds like the kind of engagement you want, tell us what you are running and what is causing you pain.

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