Accepting Select Advisory & Enterprise SRE Engagements for Q3/Q4 2026
Sandip Basnet
Fractional CTO, SOA Architect & Principal SRE Consultant
AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Hi, I'm Sandip Basnet

Architecting Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Distributed Cloud Solutions & Engineering Leadership

Senior Solution Architect, Fractional CTO, and Principal SRE with 8+ years of hands-on engineering leadership. I partner with founders, CTOs, and engineering teams to design clean Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), eliminate monolithic bottlenecks, maintain 99.99% database uptime with PostgreSQL HA, and reduce cloud infrastructure costs by 30% to 50%, helping teams ship faster with high confidence.

99.99% Database HA SLADomain-Driven SOA30-50% FinOps SavingsMutual NDA Protected
Kathmandu, Nepal 🇳🇵 • Retainer & Advisory Worldwide
contact@sandipbasnet.com.np
8+ Yrs
Engineering Leadership
99.99%
Mission-Critical Uptime SLA
<10s
Failover Recovery (RTO)
35%+
Average Cloud Savings
Enterprise Governance & Contracting Assurance

Frictionless Enterprise Compliance & Security

Every advisory and SRE retainer is structured with bilateral non-disclosure agreements, 100% intellectual property ownership transfer, and adherence to cloud security benchmarks.

Bilateral NDA Ready
Clean IP Assignment
100% Ready

Mutual NDA & IP Ownership

Standard bilateral NDA execution prior to discovery. Complete client IP ownership with zero external license contamination.

Certified

AWS Well-Architected Certified

Adherence to the 6 pillars of Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

Hardened

Zero-Trust & Secure Cloud Networks

Least-privilege IAM policies, automated secret rotation, encrypted multi-region networks, and hardened container baselines.

Enterprise Standard

SRE SLA & On-Call Governance

Strict incident command runbooks, automated chaos testing, and blameless post-mortem culture with <5 min target MTTR.

Value-Driven Architecture Tiers

Strategic Advisory & SRE Tiers

Targeted architectural solutions designed for founders, CTOs, and engineering teams requiring 99.99% reliability, cloud cost containment, and strategic technical leadership.

Enterprise Architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) & Solutions

✨ Decoupled domain services, event-driven orchestration & high throughput

Transform brittle monolithic backends into resilient, loosely-coupled Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). We design Domain-Driven service boundaries, high-performance API Gateways, asynchronous event messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ), gRPC/REST service contracts, and distributed transaction workflows.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) & Service Boundary Decomposition
High-throughput API Gateway & Service Mesh Orchestration (Kong/Traefik)
Event-driven asynchronous messaging pipelines (Kafka / RabbitMQ / SQS)
Strict contract-first API design & gRPC / Protocol Buffers integration
Ideal ForHigh-Growth Scale-ups & Enterprises outgrowing monolithic systems
Engagement ModelArchitecture Blueprint or Fractional Advisory
Executive Leadership

Fractional CTO & Strategic Advisory

✨ Strategic scale without full-time executive overhead

Embedded executive leadership for scaling startups and established tech firms. We establish technology roadmaps, streamline engineering culture, manage vendor contracts, and align architecture with revenue goals.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Technology & Infrastructure Strategy Roadmaps
Engineering Team Hiring, Mentorship & Culture Alignment
System Scalability Audits & Architecture Reviews
Multi-Region Architecture & Vendor Governance
Ideal ForStartups, Scale-ups & Growing Tech Firms
Engagement ModelMonthly Retainer / 10-20 hrs per week
Enterprise Reliability

Mission-Critical PostgreSQL & HA Clustering

✨ 99.99% Uptime with Sub-10s Automated Failover

End-to-end relational database clustering architecture. Implementation of Patroni consensus failover, Etcd consensus, pgBackRest S3 backups, PgBouncer pooling, and zero-data-loss disaster recovery.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Patroni + Etcd automated failover cluster implementation
pgBackRest point-in-time recovery (PITR) with cloud storage
PgBouncer high-concurrency pooling & lock contention triage
Grafana/Prometheus deep PostgreSQL replication telemetry
Ideal ForFintech, E-commerce & High-Concurrency Data Platforms
Engagement ModelProject Blueprint or Dedicated SRE Retainer
Infrastructure Scale

Enterprise SRE & Kubernetes Modernization

✨ Friction-free releases & <5m Incident MTTR

Modernize monolithic or legacy infrastructure into declarative, self-healing Kubernetes clusters. Complete GitOps CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD/Helm), multi-cloud Terraform IaC, and full-stack observability.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Kubernetes production cluster setup & automated GitOps
Infrastructure as Code via modular Terraform & Ansible
Full-stack telemetry with Prometheus, Grafana & OpenTelemetry
Automated disaster recovery & on-call runbook development
Ideal ForCompanies scaling beyond legacy single-server setups
Engagement ModelFixed-Scope Migration or SRE Retainer
High ROI Optimization

Cloud FinOps & Cost Optimization

✨ Immediate cloud savings & latency reduction

Deep diagnostic audits on cloud spend, latency bottlenecks, and runaway infrastructure bills. We optimize instance sizing, network egress, query latency, and unblock critical production bottlenecks.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Comprehensive Cloud Cost & FinOps Waste Audit
Query & API response time bottleneck remediation
Resource rightsizing & reserved instance optimization
Emergency post-mortem & system hardening
Ideal ForEnterprises with high AWS/GCP bills or recurring performance issues
Engagement ModelRapid 2-Week Sprint or Value-Share Audit
Migration & Modernization

Cloud Migration & Modernization (Multi-Cloud / On-Prem)

✨ Seamless cross-cloud, on-prem to cloud & modern stack re-platforming

End-to-end strategic migration and architectural re-platforming. Whether transitioning from legacy on-premises datacenters to cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), executing cross-cloud portability migrations, or re-architecting your technology stack, we guarantee zero data loss, minimal downtime, and optimized target topologies.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

On-premise to Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) lift, shift & re-architect roadmap
Cross-cloud migration & multi-cloud hybrid topology design
Zero-downtime database & live data synchronization pipelines
Legacy stack containerization, IaC re-platforming & security compliance
Ideal ForEnterprises moving from bare-metal/on-prem or re-platforming between clouds
Engagement ModelFixed-Scope Migration Project or Architectural Advisory
Interactive Scope Diagnostic

System Triage & ROI Diagnostic

Select your primary technical priority to preview the prescriptive strategy and verified business ROI.

SOA & Solutions Strategy Blueprint

Loosely-Coupled Services, Event Streaming & API Gateways

Identified Risk / Bottleneck

Monolithic bottlenecks, tight code coupling, slow deploy cycles, single-point cascading outages, and team coordination overhead.

Prescribed Technical Intervention
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) service boundary decomposition
Asynchronous event messaging with Kafka / RabbitMQ pipelines
Enterprise API Gateway & Service Mesh (Kong/Traefik/gRPC)
Distributed transaction resilience (Saga & Outbox patterns)
Expected Business & SLA Impact

10x Engineering Velocity • Isolated Failure Domains • Independent Deployments

Target Timeline4-10 Weeks Phased Blueprint & Delivery
EngagementPrincipal SRE
Primary Deliverable

Enterprise SOA Architecture Blueprint + Service Contracts + Event Schemas

Book Diagnostic Consultation
Architecture Core Pillars

Systems & Architecture Specifications

Architecting fault-tolerant cloud estates, mission-critical PostgreSQL clusters, and high-throughput microservices designed for continuous uptime and high engineering velocity.

Decoupled Domain Services & API Gateways

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) & Solutions

10x
Feature Velocity Boost

Designing modular, loosely-coupled Service-Oriented Architectures and high-throughput microservices that isolate failure domains and accelerate product engineering velocity.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) & Service Decomposition
Event-Driven Asynchronous Messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
High-Performance API Gateways & gRPC / REST Contracts
SOAMicroservicesKafkagRPCAPI GatewayGo / Node
Strategic Vision, Prosperity & Team Alignment

Fractional CTO & Strategic Leadership

8+ Yrs
Executive Advisory

Guiding high-growth companies to scale architectures while fostering engineering velocity, clear ownership, and long-term business prosperity.

Growth Strategy & Enterprise Architectural Scalability
Empowering High-Performing & Aligned Engineering Teams
Sustainable Technology Roadmaps & Architecture Governance
LeadershipScalable GrowthTeam CultureSystem DesignAgile
Zero-Downtime Mission-Critical Clustering

PostgreSQL HA & Enterprise Clustering

99.99%
Target Availability SLA

Architecting zero-data-loss PostgreSQL failover clusters to ensure business continuity, data protection, and quiet, reliable nights for engineering teams.

Patroni + Etcd automated failover for continuous availability
pgBackRest differential S3 backups for complete peace of mind
PgBouncer high-concurrency connection pool optimization
PostgreSQLPatroniEtcdpgBackRestPgBouncer
Automated Resiliency & Stress-Free Releases

Enterprise SRE & Automated GitOps

<5m
MTTR Incident Recovery

Building automated GitOps CI/CD, reliable multi-cloud infrastructure, and actionable telemetry to give engineering teams smooth releases and peace of mind.

Kubernetes GitOps & Stress-Free Deployment Pipelines
Prometheus, Grafana & Full Observability Control
Terraform Infrastructure Automation & Disaster Preparedness
KubernetesDockerTerraformPrometheusArgoCD
Executive Endorsements & Peer Reviews

Trusted by Founders & Engineering Leaders

Delivering zero-downtime reliability, decoupled architectural speed, and high-impact technical governance across enterprise platforms.

Accelerated Velocity & Reliability

“Sandip's architectural depth and disciplined approach to scalable cloud systems made an immediate impact. He has a rare ability to untangle complex infrastructure challenges, optimize performance, and empower engineering teams to ship with confidence.”

Jonas Hess
Co-Founder & CPO
Deskbird
Scalable Cloud Architecture

“Working with Sandip gave us tremendous clarity on our system architecture. From decoupling core services to streamlining database reliability, his solutions eliminated critical bottlenecks and significantly accelerated our engineering velocity.”

Arnav Vohra
Founder & CEO
Nibbl
Zero-Downtime Reliability

“Sandip is a trusted technical partner who brings executive-level vision and hands-on execution. His guidance on infrastructure resilience, zero-downtime reliability, and clean systems design has been invaluable to our digital growth.”

Krishna Gurung
Founder & Director
AuraHimalaya
Open Source Ecosystem

Developer Tools & NPM Contributions

High-performance, zero-dependency TypeScript & Node.js packages powering GIS spatial validation, administrative mapping, and calendar localization.

77 Districts & 7 Provinces • 0 Dependencies

info-nepal

Developer Geographical Metadata Engine

A lightweight, zero-dependency Node.js/TypeScript metadata library providing complete administrative divisions of Nepal (77 districts, 7 provinces, municipal codes) with dual English & Devanagari language support.

77 Districts & 7 Provinces
Bilingual Devanagari / English
753 Local Municipal Divisions
Zero CVE Vulnerability Surface
npm install info-nepal
info-nepal-demo.ts
TypeScript / ESM & CJS
import { getDistricts, getProvincesByLang } from 'info-nepal';

// Fetch all 77 districts with English & Devanagari script
const districts = getDistricts();
console.log(districts[0]); 
// Output: { id: 1, name: "Kathmandu", devanagari: "काठमाडौँ", province: "Bagmati" }

// Get provinces formatted in Nepali (Devanagari)
const provinces = getProvincesByLang('np');
console.log(provinces);
77 Districts & 7 Provinces

info-nepal

A lightweight, zero-dependency Node.js/TypeScript metadata library providing complete administrative divisions of Nepal (77 districts, 7 provinces, municipal codes) with dual English & Devanagari language support.

Active Playground
Sub-1ms Validation

geoenclave

High-performance TypeScript utility implementing ray-casting algorithms to validate whether a geospatial coordinate (lat/lng) lies inside a defined boundary or complex polygon for geofencing and delivery zones.

Explore Package
130+ Years (1970–2100 BS)

nepali-dates

Ultra-compact NPM utility supplying exact month day counts, leap intervals, and calendar conversion metadata for the Nepali Bikram Sambat (B.S.) calendar system spanning over 130 years.

Explore Package
Engineering Writing & Insights

Technical Perspectives

Deep dives into Cloud Architecture, Serverless resilience, FinOps cloud cost reduction, Kubernetes GitOps, and mission-critical PostgreSQL reliability.

Explore All Articles
Systems Telemetry & CLI

Architectural Interactive Console

Query architecture blueprints, database specifications, and advisory tiers directly via the interactive console.

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EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT & ADVISORY TIERS: 1. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) & DDD [Decoupled Domain Services, API Gateways, Kafka/RabbitMQ] 2. Fractional CTO & Strategic Advisory [Monthly Retainer / Executive Engineering Leadership] 3. PostgreSQL HA & Mission-Critical Clustering [Enterprise 99.99% Uptime & Sub-10s Patroni Failover] 4. Enterprise SRE & Kubernetes GitOps [CI/CD, ArgoCD, Helm & Full-Stack OpenTelemetry] 5. Cloud FinOps & Waste Containment [30-50% AWS/GCP Cost Savings] 6. Cloud Migration & Modernization [On-Prem to Cloud & Zero-Downtime Re-platforming]
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