About
LLMs bring the code, we bring the judgement and taste.
’s the missing piece of senior engineering judgment that lets a startup ship fast without shipping itself into a corner.
The firm
What Nirai is
Nirai is a boutique consulting firm. We bring senior engineering leadership to teams that need direction more than another pair of hands: fractional CTO and DevOps work, AI systems built to ship, and the platform engineering that keeps it all reliable.
We keep the practice deliberately small and hands-on. You work directly with the people doing the thinking and the building, backed by starter kits we’ve refined across real engagements.
Vagmi is a hands-on Advisory CTO and DevOps architect with 24+ years of building and shipping software, from Rust and Go services to Terraform and Kubernetes platforms.
His thesis is simple: AI-assisted coding has made velocity free, but it hasn’t solved engineering judgment, taste, or the hard architectural decisions. That judgment is what Nirai brings to the table.
He also writes about the craft on theEngineering Logand teaches theBuilder Workshop.
How we work
Three principles
01
Hands-on, not hand-wavy
We work in your codebase and your infrastructure. Strategy is only useful when someone can, and does, implement it.
02
Direction over velocity
Anyone can ship fast now. The value is in shipping the right thing: the architectural calls, the trade-offs, the taste.
03
Solid fundamentals first
Auth, data, security, and delivery are solved problems. We bring battle-tested starter kits so you don’t relearn them the hard way.
Get started
Let’s set the direction.
Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll talk through where you are, where you’re headed, and whether Nirai is the right fit.