Growing our Network of Fractional Expertise

By Ben Hayden

March 29, 2024

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Like Chris shared previously in How Fractional Engineering Teams Save Small Companies Time and Money, we at Surton offer fractional expertise for companies that need to maximize their spend on certified top-tier engineering talent. We work across many different business domains at all levels of the tech stack. This isn’t an embellishment – a month at Surton often has work across these different technologies:

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AWS

CloudFormation
CDK
Terraform
Serverless™️

Compute

ECS
Lambda
EC2
EKS (Kubernetes)

Storage

RDS
DynamoDB
S3
EKS (EFS

Networking Configurations

Monitoring & Alerting with CloudWatch

Cost Management

Azure

Bicep

Compute

Virtual Machines
App Services
Functions

Storage

SQL Server
Storage Accounts (Containers, File shares)

Networking

Azure Monitor

Cost Management

Web Application Support and Development

Languages

Python
JavaScript/TypeScript
SQL
C#
Bash/PowerShell
PHP

Frameworks

Next.js (Create-React-App)
Ruby on Rails
Flask

Mobile Application Support

Expo.dev

Windows Support

Windows Desktop Application with WinUI 3

Sideloaded App for Custom company Tool

Server Maintenance and System Admin

Pipelines and Development Tooling

Code Build Pipelines and Artifact Publishing

Deployment Pipelines

Services

GitLab/GitHub/Azure DevOps
AWS CodePipeline
CircleCi
Jenkins
TeamCity

Business Automation and Internal Tools

Custom UIs via Retool to automate business tasks for non-programmers

Scheduled Tasks and Reports

Data Engineering

Full ETL management

AWS Redshift

AWS Glue & Athena

AI Engineering

OpenAI applications and embeddings

“Woah…”

Exactly! That’s quite a breadth of technology and expertise in our small outfit. Also, we do it at a 5-star, triple A level (our testimonials match this claim). As such, we’re looking to grow our team of grade-A, fully remote talent via a direct individual contractor network. We’re not looking to partner with any agencies at this time, but instead would like to establish personal relationships with engineers and experts, learn their superpowers and pair them with tasks that are the best fits for both career growth and fulfillment.

We know that no one can know everything about every technology, and we want to turn that into a strength of our company. If you have spent 15 years in Windows technology and are an expert at Windows Active Directory – we need exactly that – no pressure to learn anything else. Reach out, let us know your rate and we’ll add you to our rolodex. We’ll pay you for your expertise and you’ll be a part of a network of other experts and a team you can always reach out to if you come across something outside of your wheelhouse.

Next Steps

We’ve built an interest form here – fill this out, and we’ll reach out to schedule a chat with you.

We look forward to working with all of you experts soon!

Let's Work Together To Empower Your Tech Success.

OUR CLIENT

Don’t just take our word for it

Challenge

Zeera, a VC-funded startup, needed a team of backend engineers and AWS professionals to help them navigate a pivot from B2C to B2B. They were looking for a top-tier team that could keep engineering costs within budget.

Solution

When Zeera partnered with us, they chose our Catalyst package. Our team quickly integrated with Zeera’s operations, providing a seamless transition and ensuring uninterrupted service delivery. We help manage the engineering and provide CTO-level consulting to the management team.

The Surton team have been brilliant partners from day one. They jumped in very quickly to manage all of our technical needs and are able to operate both autonomously and in tight coordination with our other business functions.

With very limited handover, the Surton team was able to maintain continuity in all of our engineering processes and also seamlessly deliver customer specific enhancement work on tight timelines.

Challenge

Paperplanes is a tech-enabled direct mail marketing firm. They needed a flexible and cost-effective AWS expert to ensure the smooth operation of their platform without the overhead of a full-time, in-house tech team.

Solution

Paperplanes purchased our Guardian Package, where we monitor their entire AWS Infrastructure 24/7. We do basic upgrades and are available whenever they need consulting.

Surton was an absolute pleasure to deal with. They completely understood what we wanted to achieve, and they delivered a truly fantastic deliverable, bang on time.

The skills needed to do what they do for us is what we would have to hire 1 senior or 2 mid-level developers to achieve.

Challenge

VCA is 20-year-old software company that had expanded their infrastructure to support client customizations. Their goal was to centralize their codebase while optimizing their Azure infrastructure.

Solution

We successfully moved nearly 40 servers from a data center in Texas into Microsoft Azure Cloud and kept everything running smoothly. Afterword, we deployed a strategy to centralize their code using a safe, incremental process to reduce both engineering and hosting costs.

Surton is a team of highly collaborative and adaptive experts who know how to get things done.

They take the time to deeply understand the customer needs and meticulously map out a path to addressing those needs while maintaining clarity and alignment with all stakeholders.

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