Sunwolf Studio

Fractional SRE for Startups

Production doesn't have to be chaos.

Sunwolf Studio embeds Staff SRE expertise into your team — designing and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure so you can ship fast without fearing the next incident.

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Focus

Reliability · Scalability · Cost

For

Seed to Series C startups

Engagement

1-3 days/week or project-based

When to bring in Sunwolf

We help startups bridge the gap between "it works" and "it's reliable" — before you're ready for a full-time SRE hire.

  • Incidents are interrupting product work

    On-call isn't owned, and engineers are firefighting instead of building.

  • Infra was built fast and now scaling feels risky

    Growth is coming, but the foundation wasn't built for it.

  • You need Staff SRE guidance

    But can't justify a full-time hire at this stage.

How we help

Flexible, outcome-focused engagements designed for fast-moving startups that need Staff SRE support without a full-time hire.

Reliability Foundations Sprint

3–4 weeks to establish SLOs, harden production, and set up monitoring, alerting, and runbooks.

  • SLOs, dashboards, and alert tuning
  • Incident response workflows
  • Production readiness checklist

Embedded Fractional SRE

Staff SRE embedded 1–3 days/week, leading reliability, scaling, and incident response with your team.

  • Incident triage and postmortems
  • Capacity planning and scaling
  • On-call design and enablement

Advisory & Architecture Reviews

Periodic deep dives into your infrastructure, architecture reviews, and scaling plans.

  • Production architecture reviews
  • Cloud cost and reliability trade-offs
  • Migration and rollout strategies

Results from recent work

We've helped startups move from "hope it holds" to predictable, measurable reliability.

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A lightweight, practical engagement model

01

Intro call

We discuss your stack, incidents, and reliability goals, and decide if Sunwolf is a fit.

02

Assessment

You complete a short onboarding form, then we review infra, monitoring, and recent incidents.

03

Roadmap

We agree on a concrete, time-boxed plan focused on the highest-impact reliability wins.

04

Execute & iterate

We implement alongside your team, document changes, and adjust as your product evolves.

Boutique, Staff SRE expertise

Sunwolf Studio is a boutique SRE consultancy focused on helping fast-moving startups run reliable, scalable infrastructure without building a full SRE team.

We bring experience running production systems on AWS and GCP with Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern observability stacks like Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana — paired with a pragmatic, product-aware approach to reliability.

Focus areas

  • SLOs and error budgets
  • Incident response & on-call
  • Production readiness reviews
  • Scaling and performance
  • Cloud cost and reliability trade-offs

Questions founders often ask

What is a fractional SRE engagement?
We act as your fractional SRE function — owning reliability outcomes, not just giving advice — for a fixed number of days per week or a time-boxed project.
When is the right time to bring in SRE help?
Typically once you have paying customers, a small engineering team, and incidents or scaling risks are interrupting product work.
Do you replace a full-time SRE hire?
No — we help you bridge the gap until hiring makes sense, and can support you through that transition.

Ready to stop firefighting production?

Book a short intro call to see if Sunwolf Studio is the right fit for your startup.