Cloud, on-premises & hybrid infrastructure consulting
DriftLayer Tech helps small teams design and clean up the systems that everything else relies on: networks, servers, and cloud platforms. We focus on infrastructure that stays stable when your projects, vendors, and requirements are constantly shifting.
DriftLayer Tech is an engineering-led IT consulting practice. We help you design, stabilize, and document the “plumbing” of your environment — the pieces that have to work before apps, data, and collaboration tools can do their job.
You don’t have to know the right jargon. You tell us what’s happening in plain language; we translate that into a plan and hand it back as clear changes and documentation.
Designing and refining environments that blend cloud and on-premises systems without turning into a tangle of tunnels and one-off fixes.
Clean, predictable networks and infrastructure that can handle change — new sites, new vendors, and the occasional bad day.
Extra senior hands for the work that doesn’t fit into a ticket queue: migrations, cutovers, and “we only want to do this once” changes.
We don’t disappear after the change window. We leave behind artifacts your team can actually use.
Most of our work is project-based. Sometimes that’s a single, well-scoped effort. Sometimes it’s a sequence of small projects that gradually bring order to a messy environment.
Making cloud environments more intentional — or helping you move workloads into the cloud without losing track of cost, performance, or security.
Networks and core systems for the places where work actually happens: offices, labs, small data rooms, or co-location spaces.
Straightening out environments that “mostly work” but feel fragile: undocumented changes, one-off fixes, and equipment nobody wants to touch.
Supporting existing IT and engineering teams when they’re overloaded, or when a project needs focused infrastructure attention.
The environments we work in are complex. The process to work with us shouldn’t be. We keep it simple and transparent.
We start with what you’re seeing: slowdowns, outages, complicated vendor setups, or future projects you’re worried about. We gather diagrams, configs, and tribal knowledge into one picture.
We propose changes that respect your constraints — budget, timelines, team capacity — and add the kind of margin that keeps things from falling over when loads spike or something breaks.
We execute the work in a predictable way, keep you in the loop as we go, and leave behind runbooks, diagrams, and notes so you’re not dependent on us for every future change.
DriftLayer started as a side project between two engineers who believed IT systems should stay solid when real-world conditions get messy.
In semiconductor design, the drift layer is the part of a power device that keeps current flowing smoothly under load. Get that balance wrong and the whole structure becomes unstable. That felt familiar.
Most IT environments are the same: layers of networks, servers, cloud platforms, and services all leaning on each other. If they’re not designed with enough margin, stability, and room to adapt, the smallest change can cause outsized pain.
DriftLayer Tech grew from years of building and fixing those foundations. The practice brings together different engineering backgrounds with a shared mindset: make the core reliable, understandable, and ready for whatever the business throws at it.
If your environment is a mix of cloud, on-prem, and “we’ll fix that later,” we’re probably a good fit. Share a quick snapshot of what you’re running and what you’d like to change.