Calgary • Alberta • Canada
Gone Rogue Consulting Inc. Bold DevOps, Built on Discipline.
Go Rogue Against Waste, Not Against Discipline
Going rogue here means stepping away from copy-paste playbooks and process theater while doubling down on disciplined delivery. Your culture, constraints, and ambitions deserve a strategy built from real engagements with teams balancing IT and SecOps priorities.
- We challenge the norms that slow you down (slow approvals, tool sprawl, process bottlenecks) but never the guardrails that keep releases safe.
- We double down on repeatable patterns: IaC, CI/CD, policy-as-code, SLOs, and incident-ready runbooks.
- We co-design culture and practices to match your regulators, security model, and cost targets so consistency sticks.
The result: a DevOps practice that feels bespoke to your business yet runs with the rigor of a platform team.
Fortune 500 Scale at Startup Speed
With a 20-year career spanning the full evolution of modern infrastructure, Theo brings a unique perspective that bridges the gap between deep technical execution and executive strategy. For the past 10+ years, he has led DevOps, SRE, and Infrastructure teams at high-growth SaaS leaders like Benevity, Kudos, and other top Canadian tech firms, building the playbook for aligning technical roadmaps with business-critical goals. Before moving into leadership, he spent a decade in the trenches as an individual contributor, mastering the fundamentals of system architecture, automation, and reliability.
His approach delivers measurable business value: reducing cloud spend through disciplined FinOps, establishing reliability frameworks for multi-product organizations, and transforming delivery velocity without sacrificing stability. He specializes in Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Argo CD), and observability stacks (Datadog/ELK) that scale with your ambitions.
You're not hiring a freelance engineer, you're partnering with a Strategic Technical Advisor who translates infrastructure complexity into board-ready outcomes. Let's build the platform your business deserves.
Theo Nolasco
Principal & Founder
Bold Moves, Guardrails On
We leverage two decades of frontline experience to accelerate delivery without compromising stability. We provide the opinionated guidance and embedded enablement required to move from experimental cloud setups to institutionalized, high-performance practices.
Evidence Over Slogans
We anchor transformation to objective signals: DORA metrics, SLO attainment, and cost posture. At Gone Rogue, 'going rogue' isn't about chaos; it's about providing leadership with the measurable, predictable progress they need to confidently show ROI to stakeholders.
Implementation
DevOps Implementation: Precision in Action
From Assessment to First Safe Deploy
We start with a concise assessment, then get you to a safe, repeatable deploy quickly. No six-month roadmaps; just a clear path from your current pipeline to a proven release pattern that ships small, safe, and often.
Paved Paths for Builds, Tests, and Releases
Golden IaC modules, trunk-first flow with short-lived branches, automated promotion, policy checks in-line, and gated rollouts (canary/blue-green/feature flags). Secrets, SBOM, and supply-chain controls are built into the path to production, not bolted on. We tune for cost and performance with guardrails that fit your FinOps targets.
Reliability Baked In
SLOs, alerts, and runbooks are wired from day one. Pre-flight checks, safe rollbacks, and incident workflows keep change failure rate down and MTTR short so operators and executives see the same signal: confidence to ship.
Enablement and Handoff
We document the golden path, train your engineers, and leave you with dashboards and runbooks. Governed for your regulators, cost model, and sustainability targets, with no dependency on us to keep shipping.
Consulting
The DevOps Catalyst for Your Business.
Decision Clarity for Pivotal Moves
When the stakes are high (audits, platform migrations, tool consolidation, or operating model shifts), we give you clear options, risks, and trade-offs. Expect direct guidance grounded in real delivery, not vendor hype.
Aligned to Outcomes, Not Activity
We anchor recommendations to outcomes you can measure: lead time, change failure rate, MTTR, SLO attainment, and spend efficiency against your FinOps targets. Rogue here means no busywork, only moves that shift the metrics.
Sector Expertise & Results
High-Growth / Post-Series B
The Challenge
Rapid scaling led to "survival-mode" infrastructure, unmanaged AWS growth, and a lack of deployment discipline.
The Strategic Move
Established a FinOps framework to right-size resources and introduced structured incident management (SLOs/SLIs) to move from reactive to proactive operations.
The Result
Projected $1M+ in annual savings and a significant reduction in MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery).
PE-Backed / Multi-Product
The Challenge
Operational fragmentation across nine merged SaaS companies with varying technical maturity levels.
The Strategic Move
Standardized Terraform-based IaC and unified CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to create a consistent provisioning workflow across 16 product lines.
The Result
Drastically reduced release friction and established the observability framework required for a successful future divestment or exit.
Fintech & AI / Early-Stage / High-Velocity
The Challenge
The need to launch a secure, scalable platform with integrated AI capabilities in a lean, resource-constrained environment.
The Strategic Move
Engineered a cloud-native stack (EKS, Lambda) with "secure-by-default" guardrails and integrated AWS Bedrock for intelligent interfaces.
The Result
Accelerated time-to-market while maintaining SOC 2 readiness and maximizing startup runway through strict cost discipline.
Accelerators You Can Start Today
Ready to see these results in your own infrastructure? Pick an entry point below.
- 3-Day DevOps Gap Assessment & Audit — Identify cost leaks, security gaps, and deployment bottlenecks with a prioritized roadmap.
- 2-Week DevOps Transformation Deep Dive — Embed with your team to implement IaC, CI/CD, and observability patterns that stick.
- Custom Consulting — Tailored engagements for complex migrations, compliance initiatives, or regulated environments.
Each package ends with a board-ready summary, prioritized roadmap, and a clear first slice of work.
Engagement on Your Terms
Embed alongside your teams, add fractional leadership, or use us as a short-term managed DevOps partner. We build capability, document the path, and hand it back so you are not dependent on us to keep shipping.
Let's Connect
Create A Disciplined Foundation
Direct Line to the Team
Based in Calgary, Alberta, and working with teams worldwide, you reach practitioners who build pipelines and platforms every day, not a handoff queue. We respond quickly with clear next steps.
If you prefer remote collaboration or want us onsite, include that in your note and we will align the engagement to your team and security posture.
What to Expect
- A fast reply with clarifying questions and a fit check for your goals.
- A recommended first step: a workshop, roadmap review, or a small delivery slice with guardrails.
- If we are not the right fit, practical guidance you can use immediately.
Tell Us About Your Initiative
Share what you are solving for and the outcomes you need: release speed, reliability, compliance, cost posture. The more context you provide, the faster we can tailor the next step.
We reply within one business day. If you need a secure channel, note it and we will accommodate.