Engineering, Infrastructure, Security & DevOps

Building secure, scalable, and resilient systems for modern businesses

Expert consulting that architects systems, establishes standards, and trains teams to own them. Enterprise-grade infrastructure without ongoing senior engineering costs.

Aut viam inveniemus, aut faciemus
(Either we will find a way, or we'll make one)

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KATN Solutions: Your Force Multiplier

The goal is self-sufficiency, not dependency. KATN Solutions multiplies your team's capabilities - bring us in and we transform junior engineers into effective operators through systems, training, and automation.

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Architect & Build

Design and implement enterprise-grade infrastructure with security, observability, and automation built in from day one.

2

Document & Standardize

Create comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and coding standards. Everything your team needs to understand how and why it works.

3

Train & Enable

Hands-on training for your team. Junior and mid-level engineers learn to monitor, troubleshoot, maintain, and extend the systems.

4

You Own It

Your team has the knowledge, tools, and confidence to run production. No dependency on expensive contractors or senior hires.

From enterprise to startups, KATN Solutions has trained hundreds of engineers across organizations. The best infrastructure is one your team can own. No strings, no dependency. Pure Open Source Excellence.

AI-Augmented Operations

Why wake someone up at 3am when an AI agent can diagnose and perhaps even fix it?
KATN Solutions builds custom AI systems that capture operational expertise and make it available 24/7 via Slack.

🤖 Diagnostic Slack Bots

AI agents integrated with your observability stack (Loki, Prometheus, Elasticsearch) that investigate incidents autonomously. Ask in Slack: "Why is the API slow?" and get correlated logs, metrics, and remediation steps.

  • Automatically investigates WAF blocks with attacker IP analysis
  • Diagnoses database migration failures with error correlation
  • Troubleshoots pod crashes across Kubernetes clusters
  • Generates professional PDF reports with findings

🔍 RAG Code Indexing

Make your codebase searchable by AI coding assistants. AST-based semantic analysis extracts patterns from your code - error handling, named returns, internal library usage - and indexes it for AI to suggest.

  • AI suggests code following YOUR standards, not generic patterns
  • Accelerates onboarding with searchable examples
  • Integrates with Claude, GitHub Copilot, etc.
  • Elasticsearch-backed with semantic search

⚡ Automation at Scale

Template-driven investigation workflows capture senior engineer expertise. Junior engineers get instant access to diagnostic knowledge that would otherwise require years to build.

  • 85% reduction in Mean Time To Resolution
  • 60-80% automation of routine diagnostics
  • $400-500K annual savings in on-call burden
  • Self-service debugging reduces escalations

🔧 Self-Healing Infrastructure

AI agents that don't just diagnose—they fix. Automated remediation of common issues based on approved runbooks. The system learns safe fix patterns and can execute them without waiting for human approval- or wait for a human, if you want to be sure.

  • Restarts crashed services following dependency order
  • Clears stuck queues and reprocesses failed jobs
  • Scales resources automatically during traffic spikes
  • Rolls back bad deployments with root cause analysis

Real results: Automated operational engineering role out of existence through systematic capture of expertise. Your junior engineers perform like seniors with AI augmentation.

Engineering Standards That Scale

Code quality isn't negotiable. KATN Solutions establishes engineering standards that prevent bugs, security vulnerabilities, and technical debt before they reach production.

🔧 Custom Linter Development

Custom linter development including namedreturns (github.com/nikogura/namedreturns) enforcing self-documenting code. Named return values make function signatures explicit about what they return, improving readability and reducing errors.

Example: func ProcessOrder() (orderID string, err error) is self-documenting - you know exactly what comes back.

✅ Zero Tolerance Enforcement

Comprehensive golangci-lint configurations with mandatory checks. All new code must pass linting before merge. No exceptions. Security, compliance, and reliability by design.

Result: Zero security incidents from code quality issues

🚦 Quality Gates & Pre-Merge Validation

CI/CD pipelines that catch issues before they reach production. Automated checks for complexity (gocognit), function length (funlen), error handling, proto field access, and more.

Result: 100% lint compliance across organization

📚 GitOps Standards

All infrastructure changes through git. Immutable infrastructure. Every change reviewable, auditable, and reversible through git history. No manual changes to production systems.

Result: Complete audit trail for compliance

The Philosophy

Clear is better than clever. Code should be boring, predictable, and maintainable. Linters enforce discipline that prevents entire classes of bugs and security vulnerabilities. When the linter complains, the code is wrong - not the linter.

Standards adopted org-wide. From enterprise to startups, KATN Solutions establishes engineering standards that teams embrace because they prevent problems rather than create bureaucracy.

Services

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Maintainable, Secure, Open Source Infrastructure

Build to own, not to rent. Vendors solve the "how" but charge you forever after. The real work — understanding what to build and monitor, how to instrument — is required regardless. KATN Solutions delivers true ownership through battle-tested open source.

  • No vendor lock-in or perpetual licensing fees
  • Expert implementation and team training
  • Complete ownership after engagement ends
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Startup in a Box

Everything needed to launch with enterprise-grade infrastructure, security, and DevOps practices. Complete build, documentation, and team training. No expensive senior engineers on permanent payroll.

  • Production-ready Kubernetes platform
  • Security and compliance foundation
  • CI/CD and observability out of the box
  • Complete documentation and runbooks
  • Team training and knowledge transfer
  • Junior engineers can maintain it
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Infrastructure Engineering

Multi-cloud and bare-metal infrastructure design and implementation. Kubernetes platforms, GitOps workflows, and immutable infrastructure.

  • Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Bare-metal Kubernetes with Talos
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
  • GitOps with FluxCD and ArgoCD
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Security & Compliance

Enterprise-grade security architecture, compliance automation, and risk management for regulated industries.

  • FedRAMP, SOC 2, and PCI DSS compliance
  • Web Application Firewalls (ModSecurity)
  • Secrets management (Hashicorp Vault)
  • PKI and encryption key management
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DevOps & SRE

CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and operational excellence for high-availability environments.

  • Observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Elasticsearch)
  • CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
  • Incident response and on-call optimization
  • Performance optimization and cost reduction
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Training & Knowledge Transfer

Expert training enabling engineers to own complex systems. Comprehensive knowledge transfer ensuring teams can monitor, maintain, and evolve infrastructure independently.

  • Comprehensive curriculum development
  • Hands-on training for operations teams
  • Documentation and runbook creation
  • Standards and best practices establishment
  • Junior to mid-level engineer enablement
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AI-Powered Operations

Custom AI agents that diagnose issues, automate troubleshooting, and assist your team 24/7. Turn tribal knowledge into automation.

  • Diagnostic Slack bots for incident response
  • RAG-powered code indexing for AI assistants
  • Automated WAF analysis and remediation
  • Self-service debugging for junior engineers
  • 85% MTTR reduction, 60-80% automation
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Engineering Standards & Code Quality

Establish world-class engineering standards with zero tolerance for violations. Security and compliance by design through automated enforcement.

  • Custom linter development (namedreturns, etc.)
  • golangci-lint configuration and enforcement
  • CI/CD quality gates and pre-merge validation
  • GitOps standards (all changes through git)
  • Self-documenting code practices
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Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Ensure business resilience with comprehensive backup strategies, failover systems, and tested recovery procedures. Zero-downtime operations proven across 30,000+ servers.

  • Backup and recovery strategy design
  • Multi-region failover architecture
  • Recovery runbook creation and testing
  • RTO/RPO analysis and optimization
  • Disaster recovery drills and validation
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Platform Migration & Modernization

Move legacy systems to modern infrastructure without disrupting operations. Experience spanning OpenStack, bare-metal, multi-cloud, and Kubernetes migrations.

  • Legacy to cloud migration strategies
  • Lift-and-shift to containerization paths
  • Multi-cloud and hybrid deployments
  • Zero-downtime migration execution
  • Technical debt elimination
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Cost Optimization & FinOps

Proven track record of dramatic cost reductions: 76% infrastructure savings, 100x observability cost improvement. Direct ROI through systematic analysis and optimization.

  • Infrastructure spend analysis and right-sizing
  • Cloud cost monitoring and alerting
  • Vendor consolidation and elimination
  • Reserved capacity and commitment planning
  • Open source migration for perpetual savings
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Incident Response & On-Call Optimization

Transform chaotic fire-fighting into systematic problem solving. 85% MTTR reduction through effective processes, automation, and AI-powered diagnostics.

  • On-call rotation design and optimization
  • Incident response procedure development
  • Post-mortem and blameless culture
  • Alert fatigue reduction and tuning
  • Automated incident triage and diagnostics

Technical Expertise

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Talos OpenStack Terraform Proxmox ESX / VMWare Bare Metal Linux Vagrant VirtualBox

Security & Identity

ModSecurity Hashicorp Vault OIDC PKI WAF SIEM FedRAMP SOC 2

Observability

Prometheus Thanos Grafana Loki Elasticsearch Kibana

Development

Go Python Perl Bash Java JavaScript Ruby

AI & Automation

Claude MCP RAG Slack Bots AI Agents AST Analysis

Code Quality & Standards

golangci-lint namedreturns Custom Linters CI/CD Gates GitOps Static Analysis

Notable Achievements

Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization

76% cost reduction, 40% latency improvement

Architected multi-cloud hybrid Kubernetes platform spanning AWS, GCP, and bare-metal, eliminating vendor lock-in and enabling enterprise deployments for crypto trading platform.

AI-Powered Operations

85% MTTR reduction, 60-80% diagnostic automation

Built federated observability system with AI-powered diagnostic bots handling WAF blocks, database migrations, and pod crashes across 7 distributed clusters.

Observability Cost Savings

100x cost reduction

Designed scalable monitoring from scratch using Prometheus + Thanos federation, replacing commercial SaaS and improving visibility while reducing costs dramatically.

Zero-Downtime Global Operations

30,000 servers, zero incidents 2015-2017

Architected command and control for Apple Pay China launch managing global infrastructure with perfect uptime during critical launch period.

Security-First Engineering

Zero security incidents from code quality

Created namedreturns linter enforcing self-documenting code and established comprehensive engineering standards with zero tolerance for violations.

Kubernetes Innovation

Flawless customer installations

Built stand-alone, self-bootstrapping Kubernetes system working in cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments, described by customers as "easiest, highest quality software installation we have ever seen".

Leadership

Nik Ogura

Nik Ogura

Founder & Principal Consultant

  • 25+ years engineering infrastructure, security, and DevOps systems across Apple, AWS, Scribd, and startups
  • Expert in Kubernetes, multi-cloud architecture, compliance automation (FedRAMP, SOC 2), and AI-powered operations
  • Built systems managing 30,000+ servers with zero downtime
  • Proven track record: 76% cost reduction, 85% MTTR reduction, 100x observability savings
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Monica Thoelke

Monica Thoelke

Director of Strategic Growth

  • Driving strategic growth through trust-based relationships and tailored technical solutions
  • Deep experience in fintech, crypto, and startup ecosystems
  • Specializing in integrating advanced technologies: AIOps, SecDevOps, and Platform Engineering
  • Ensuring operational efficiency and innovation through strategic partnerships

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Ready to transform your Infrastructure, Security, or DevOps practices? Let's discuss how KATN Solutions can help your organization achieve operational excellence.