Your startup's infra,
built to survive scale.
I help early-stage founders build infrastructure that doesn't break when things get real — and engineering teams that know how to use AI to ship faster.
What I do
Three things I'm
actually good at.
Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure
From early-stage AWS setup to microservices at scale. CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, observability, zero-downtime deployments. I've done it live, not on a whiteboard.
Security Posture & Compliance Readiness
InfraSec, IAM, secrets management, auth systems, VPC design. I can also help you get compliance-ready for SOC2 and ISO27001 — without derailing your product roadmap.
AI-Augmented Engineering Teams
Most teams have access to Cursor, Copilot, and Claude — but aren't using them effectively. I help you build internal AI workflows so your engineers ship twice as fast.
Proof
Real problems,
real outcomes.
Clueso · YC W23
Broke a monolith into 15+ services without breaking production.
Architected the full decomposition of Clueso's backend — defining service boundaries, migration order, and deployment strategy. Zero downtime. Faster deploys. Less blast radius when things go wrong. Still running it today as Founding Engineer.
CRED · SRE Intern
Cut cloud costs from $100k to $30k a month.
Drove the migration from ELK Stack to ClickHouse for VPC flow logs and app logging — better query performance, higher availability, and a $70k/month saving that goes straight to the bottom line.
Clueso · Auth Migration
Migrated auth providers over a single weekend.
Moved from Auth0 to PropelAuth in 48 hours — designed the migration strategy, executed end-to-end, live traffic untouched throughout. The kind of thing most teams put off for quarters.
How it works
Simple by design.
Free infra audit
We spend an hour on your stack. I look at your CI/CD, cloud architecture, auth, security posture, and observability. You get a written doc with prioritised recommendations and one quick win you can act on immediately.
No charge · No obligationMonthly advisory retainer
If the audit is useful, we can work together on a rolling basis. One call a month, async support on Slack, architecture reviews when you need them. I work with 2–3 founders at a time so you always get real attention.
₹50–75k / month · 3-month minimumProject-based work
Need a full architecture redesign, a CI/CD overhaul, or a compliance readiness sprint? I take on focused projects with defined scope, timeline, and deliverables.
₹2–5L · Fixed scopeAbout
I'm in the trenches,
not reminiscing about them.
I'm Parjanya — currently Founding Engineer at Clueso (YC W23), where I own the entire backend and infrastructure. Before that I founded Tejas Technology, built an SRE internship at CRED, and spent time at Ankercloud working on cloud architecture.
Most advisors are a decade removed from hands-on work. I'm solving the same problems your team is dealing with — right now, this week. That's what makes the advice useful instead of theoretical.
I believe the best infra decisions come from understanding both the technical tradeoffs andthe business constraints. I don't give you the perfect architecture — I give you the right one for where you are.
Stack I work with
Currently
Founding Engineer @ Clueso (YC W23)
Open to 2–3 advisory engagements
Let's talk
Start with a free audit.
No pitch, no agenda.
If your stack has rough edges — or you're about to scale and want someone to pressure-test the architecture — reach out. Worst case, you get a useful doc and a second opinion.
parjanya@parjanyamodi.com →or find me on
LinkedIn