ANILARDIC

CONSULTING · CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Audit-ready CI/CD and on-prem AI. Fixed-price. 2-6 weeks.

Productized engagements for critical-infrastructure teams. Clear deliverables, ASML / Ericsson / GE-tested patterns, no T&M traps.

Book a 20-min intro call

Packages

  • Regulated-SDLC CI/CD Audit

    Audit-ready pipelines for regulated SDLCs.

    €15-22k · 2 weeks

    You get

    • Gap analysis vs ISO 27001 + secure-SDLC requirements
    • 90-day paved-road plan with cost estimates
    • Reference template kit: GitLab CI templates + SAST/SCA/SBOM policy gates

    Ideal for

    Medical device, aerospace, defense, regulated finance SDLCs

    Proof

    ASML — Python CI/CD libraries surviving regulated-SDLC audit

  • On-Prem AI Rollout Architecture

    Run AI inside the perimeter without sending data out.

    €25-45k · 4 weeks

    You get

    • Air-locked architecture (2-plane design + sanitization boundary)
    • STRIDE threat model (T1–T12) + redaction corpus
    • 6-month rollout plan with capacity sizing

    Ideal for

    Utilities, defense, healthcare wanting LLM-class capability without data egress

    Proof

    OnPremAI — governed AI access layer with 4-stage airlock

  • DevOps Modernization

    From bespoke pipelines to paved roads.

    €18-25k · 3 weeks

    You get

    • Audit current pipelines (GitLab CI / GitHub Actions / Jenkins / Argo)
    • 3 reusable paved-road templates with policy gates baked in
    • Runner-scaling + secrets-management runbook

    Ideal for

    50-500 engineer orgs drowning in copy-paste pipeline files

    Proof

    Ericsson EEA4 — GitLab CI/CD at 5G scale; ASML — pipeline modernization

  • IDP Golden-Path Setup

    Day-one IDP your engineers will actually use.

    €35-55k · 6 weeks

    You get

    • Component catalog with 10-20 production entities migrated (Backstage-shape)
    • 3 software templates (golden paths) with TechDocs
    • Self-service handoff: ownership + lifecycle + dependency graph

    Ideal for

    Orgs adopting Backstage or rolling their own internal developer platform

    Proof

    anilardic.com/catalog — Backstage-shaped Component entities, Zod-validated

  • Observability / SRE Audit

    Find the alerts that page people out of bed for nothing.

    €18-25k · 3 weeks

    You get

    • Alert quality audit: signal-to-noise, SLO coverage, on-call burden
    • Prometheus + Grafana + (Victoria/Loki/Tempo) stack health report
    • OTel-ready instrumentation plan + 90-day error-budget pilot

    Ideal for

    Teams with paged on-call rotations and SLO gaps

    Proof

    Ericsson EEA4 — Prometheus + Grafana + VictoriaMetrics at telco scale

  • SCADA / OT-IT Bridge Audit

    Secure platform-engineering for plants that can't go down.

    €25-40k · 4 weeks

    You get

    • OT-IT separation audit: network zones, gateways, jump hosts, data diodes
    • Audit-ready data flow from SCADA / historian into the analytics platform
    • Secure software-delivery patterns for OT-adjacent IT (no PLC touching)

    Ideal for

    Utilities, manufacturing, energy plants modernizing data flow off OT systems

    Proof

    GE — microservices on Kubernetes for critical-energy infrastructure

    Scope: OT-adjacent IT only. SCADA/PLC firmware work referred out to OT specialists.

Process

  1. 1

    20-min intro call

    Mutual fit check. No obligation.

  2. 2

    Scope SOW

    Pricing fixed, deliverables locked.

  3. 3

    Audit / build

    Async + 2 sync calls per week.

  4. 4

    Handoff

    Deliverables + 30-day Q&A window.

Fit

Best fit

  • Critical-infrastructure orgs (utilities, defense, medical, fintech, semiconductor)
  • 50-2000 engineers, growing platform / SRE team
  • Regulated SDLC, ISO 27001, NIS2, or DORA in scope

Not a fit

  • Pure greenfield startups (no platform to fix yet)
  • Quick-answer consultancy calls — fixed-price audits only
  • T&M / staff augmentation contracts

Contact

Reach me at ardtechclub [at] gmail.com — answers within 48h.

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