Every “About” page sort of sounds the same, right? Bold statements, stock photos, vague promises about changing the world with synergy and cloud innovation.
Honestly—yeah, we’re not doing that.
Byteherder started because we got tired of watching smart teams waste time wrestling bad infrastructure, overcomplicated tooling, and consulting firms that bill by the buzzword. We believe good technical work should be sharp, quiet, and slightly satisfying.
We’re not here to sell dreams. We’re here to make your systems make sense.
Why we exist (and why that matters)
Let me paint a picture. You’re knee-deep in a cluster that’s failing for the third time this month. Someone suggests “just use Kubernetes,” and someone else has deployed a monitoring stack that can’t monitor itself without a master’s degree in Elastic.
Sound familiar?
We started Byteherder because we’ve lived that. The overengineered pipelines. The fragile CI/CD setups duct-taped together with GitHub Actions and hope. The “infrastructure as code” that’s basically “infrastructure as folklore.”
Our mission is simple: clarity over chaos. Clean, maintainable, human-centric infrastructure. Fewer moving parts. More moving forward.
So… what do we actually do?
We’re the kind of outfit that shows up when your infra feels like it’s working against you.
Here’s what we handle, and the tools we use so your team can start the gap analysis before we even talked:
- Linux infrastructure takeover, 100% managed.
- Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, Proxmox etc.)
- Redhat and derivatives (RHEL, Rocky, Alma, Fedora etc.)
- Infrastructure design and automation
- Ansible
- Terraform
- GitLab CI
- Containerization and orchestration where needed
- Docker and Portainer
- Harbor
- k3s
- Portainer
- Monitoring and observability
- Prometheus
- Loki
- Grafana
- AlertManager
- UptimeRobot for external sanity checks
- Security hardening without paranoia theater
- CIS benchmark hardening
- Nessus
- A custom, aggressive and offensive security pipeline using, among others,
- masscan
- nmap
- nikto
- rustbuster
Our approach? Less magic, more method. We believe in boring tech done beautifully. We’ll never automate what we don’t understand. And we document everything—because we want you to be able to fire us and still thrive.
Who’s behind Byteherder?
Byteherder isn’t some sleek agency with a neon logo and 15-person sales team. It’s more like a tech garage. One senior engineer with a sharp eye and a measly 25 years of background in DevOps, infosec, and automation. Maybe a few close collaborators now and then—but always lean, always focused.
We like doing the work ourselves. No middlemen, no account managers who don’t know what “sysctl” is. Just people who like solving hard technical problems with a bit of style and a lot of care.
Our kind of people
You know the type.
The CTO who’d rather read config diffs than slide decks. The sysadmin who’s been burned one too many times by Docker Swarm. The tech lead who wants their system to be boring because boring means stable, fast, and invisible when it matters most.
We work best with teams that are technical, honest, and allergic to fluff. If you care more about uptime than headcount, and more about grep than Gartner, we’ll probably get along.
How we work (hint: calmly)
We’re asynchronous by default, allergic to urgency, and obsessed with context. We don’t hop on five calls to fix what one well-written issue could’ve handled.
Our philosophy:
- Think twice, write once
- Automate out of respect for human time
- Test everything, trust nothing
- Ask “why?” more often than “when?”
If that sounds like your vibe, you’re already halfway home.
What happens next?
Look—we’re not chasing contracts. If you’re wrestling a problem or want to rethink a part of your stack, just send a message. We’ll ask questions. We’ll listen. No pressure, no pitch decks, no suits.
Byteherder isn’t trying to scale into the next tech unicorn. We’re here to help good teams ship good systems—and sleep better while doing it.
Talk soon?