Michael Cabassol

Ways to hire me

Hire me for one project, or for the year.

Leadership carves the hardest project out and hands it to me. That’s the shape most of these take. The intro is fit, not a free architecture review.

Offers

The carve
A fixed-scope engagement for the project that’s taking too long.
Contract principal, corp-to-corp
A staff-plus engineer embedded in your team, on a long engagement.
Path to prod
I don’t build landing zones. I get workloads through them.
Fractional principal
Principal-level ownership, part-time, through the operating year.
Production recovery
Failed failover, a deploy without rollback, the same page again.
Symptom what you’re seeing Stalled, or down? Taking too long due diligence what’s actually blocking built in your stack your patterns, your design the team runs it skills and lineage Down now LIVE in the subject email I join the pager pager and PRs it holds harden, hand off then I’m gone symptom standing Standing team an operating cycle, finished principal-level ownership, part-time
Fig. 01 — One question sorts the hire: stalled, or down. Both branches end the same way — hardened, handed off. The standing team is the dotted route, and it starts outside the question.

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Paper

Engagements run through UCBY Holdings LLC. I do the work — no junior bench, not an AWS Marketplace SKU. I’ll sign your NDA first; for LIVE, send it with the first mail. Typical paper is an MSA and a SOW. W-9 and certificate of insurance on request. No rate card on this site. I refuse slide-deck-only strategy, Well-Architected as the product, “certify the team,” and work I will not own in production. A badge is a study path. The résumé is the systems catalog.

US-based, remote-first, in their pager and PRs for recovery. Travel when the room needs it. This site is not a pager rotation.

engraving of a long bank of signal levers, packed edge to edge across the frame, each carrying a small numbered tag

Questions

01

What happens on the first conversation?

Fit. I’ll tell you in about a day whether I’m the right person, and I’ll say so if I’m not.

02

What does it cost?

The number comes out of the scope, not off a page. Typical paper is an MSA and a SOW; W-9 and certificate of insurance on request.

03

Do you bring a team?

No. I do the work — no junior bench, and not an AWS Marketplace SKU. The team I hand it back to is yours.

04

Will you sign an NDA?

Yes, first. For a live incident, send it with the first mail.

If you need to forward this

Michael Cabassol is a principal engineer leadership brings in when a project is taking a lot longer than it should. He does the due diligence, builds it in the team’s own stack, and hands it back running — corp-to-corp, and the team owns it when he leaves. Systems catalog and contact: https://ucby.io/work

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Tell me what’s stuck.

Tell me what’s stuck

I’ll tell you in about a day whether I’m the right person. The first conversation is fit, not a free architecture review.