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.
DevOps Implementation: Precision in Action
From assessment to production-ready in weeks, not months
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.
The DevOps Catalyst for Your Business.
Clear guidance for pivotal infrastructure decisions
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? Three ways to engage:
- 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. Ready to start?
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.
Create A Disciplined Foundation
Based in Calgary, Serving Teams Worldwide
Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and working with teams across North America and beyond. You reach practitioners who build pipelines and platforms every day - not a handoff queue, not a sales qualification maze.
Whether you need a fast assessment, a roadmap sprint, or hands-on implementation, we respond within 24 hours with honest guidance on fit and a clear first step.
What We Need to Know
Share your current challenge and desired outcome:
- Are you targeting faster deployments, better reliability, cost reduction, or compliance readiness?
- What's your timeline and biggest constraint (budget, team capacity, tech debt)?
- Remote, onsite, or hybrid engagement?
The more context you provide, the faster we can recommend the right starting point - or point you elsewhere if we're not the fit.