From Complex to Controlled Standardized. Automated. Observable. OpStack brings Thoughtful Operations to enterprise IT.
Make Operations a Strategic Advantage
Simplify complexity. Standardize delivery. Automate execution. Monitor everything.
Modernize & Stabilize
Replace reactive firefighting with a prioritized modernization plan grounded in operational reality.
- Cloud Architecture & Operations Intensive
- Operational Risk Assessment
- Modernization Roadmap
Scale with Automation
Deploy secure, auditable environments in minutes, not months. Tripled capacity without adding headcount.
- Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation
- Platform Engineering
- Critical Migrations
Compliance as a Capability
Turn compliance from a fire drill into an operational capability. Audit-ready in 90 days.
- Compliance Readiness
- Continuous Controls
- GenAI Governance
Real Results, Measurable Impact
From reducing provisioning time from months to days, to launching entirely new revenue streams. See what thoughtful operations can do for your business.
See Our Case StudiesClient Stories
See what thoughtful operations can deliver in the real world. These outcomes reflect partnerships built on clarity, execution, and measurable impact.
Featured Case Study
Building a Multi-Cloud
Deployment Portal
A leading multi-national software company needed to expand its business by offering their enterprise software as a managed service in the public cloud. Starting with only an internal proof of concept, OpStack helped transform this initial foundation into a sophisticated cloud deployment and administration portal that enables multi-tenant access across multiple public clouds.
OpStack led the effort to take the POC all the way to production working alongside a small team from the client, designing a modular architecture to accommodate different deployment types while creating a unified control plane for multi-cloud orchestration. The solution implemented comprehensive automation across deployment processes, end-to-end infrastructure management, and software installation. The portal has recently been extended to support complex software upgrades and firewall configuration.
This transformation created an entirely new revenue stream, allowing the client to launch over 10 cloud offerings over 5 years while attracting dozens of paying enterprise customers. The project grew from a single team led by OpStack to a multi-team effort with a dedicated product owner, with OpStack continuing to provide architectural guidance and engineering expertise.
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We are Architects,
Engineers,
Ninjas,
Artists,
Listeners.
We hate repetitive work — we want to minimize it in our lives and the lives of our customers. OpStack team members have successfully automated operations and built complex solutions for top 10 banks, big 4 accounting firms, billion dollar SaaS providers, government agencies, and Fortune 100 e-commerce sites.
We've evaluated the available technologies, defined the critical processes, and refined the OpStack approach across a wide range of technology architectures and platforms. The fundamentals of operations automation are a solved problem — this lets OpStack apply them to client-specific challenges and opportunities.
Evan Bauer
Chairman & Chief Stacker
OpStack CEO and founder Evan Bauer has worked for almost 50 years as an architect, consultant, analyst, software engineer, and executive in the architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance of complex information systems and software products for mission-critical applications, most often in the financial services industry.
He has served as Group Head for Technology Operations at KPMG and VP Architecture at Dealertrack Technologies. Previous experience included serving as CTO at both Credit Suisse First Boston and the Collaborative Software Initiative, as well as in engineering roles at Bankers Trust, DEC, and CDC.
When he isn't stacking, Evan can be found doing photography, hiking, or volunteering with both Habitat for Humanity and the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. Did anyone mention wood-fired barbeque?
David Kennedy
Managing Director & The Midnight Coder
David has 25+ years of experience as both an individual contributor and leader in a range of industries including Investment Banking, Staffing Agencies, Healthcare, Payment Processing, Legal, Manufacturing, Automotive, and a Big 4 financial firm.
He focuses on driving direct solutions to difficult problems. David has a proven and deep experience orchestrating solutions with computing environments including Clouds (Private & Public) Windows, Linux, AS400, and Minicomputers.
When time permits, you can find him spending time with his family, restoring cars, traveling or attending concerts.
Ray Ramirez
Managing Director & The Problem Solver
Ray's career started in the banking sector with Kidder Peabody and then moved into the world of telecom at New York Telephone.
Afterwards, Ray moved back to the banking industry in 1998 with Citi, Credit Suisse and UBS Investment Bank. Ray has been involved in many IT projects covering a wide range of roles and services. He did make a quick stop in the publishing industry at The Readers Digest Association where he worked on their desktop and mail migration.
After the banks, Ray continued to augment his technology work at DealerTrack Technologies and KPMG, where he spearheaded web applications, releases to database creation and server and storage projects.
Ask Ray about baseball, he became a corporate baseball champion at KPMG.
Jered Sutton
Managing Director & The Source
Jered is a Stacker with 16+ years of experience as both an individual contributor and leader in a range of industries including Wireless ISPs, Human Resources, Automotive, and one of the Big 4 financial firms.
He focuses on deep understanding and using a combination of technology and process to build sustainable solutions to big operational problems around infrastructure management. He is passionate about open source technology and loves sharing his passion with anyone and everyone.
A short list of the things you can ask him about: Public Cloud(s), Devops, Serverless, Python, Ansible, Saltstack, Docker, Vagrant and Splunk.
Jared Trog
Managing Director & The Ninja
Jared has 16+ years of experience in technology operations. He focuses on using a winning smile and some code to solve big operational problems around infrastructure management using a combination of Infrastructure as Code, Communication, and Hard Work™.
He has used systems thinking and empirical process improvement in a variety of industries ranging from Wireless ISPs, Local Government, Automotive, and one of the Big 4 financial firms as both a contributor and leader in public and private clouds, devops and automation, technology lifecycle management, and security response.
When time permits, you can find him with a soldering iron in hand building a raspberry pi project, constructing solar arrays or competing in a Tae Kwon Do tournament.
Amauri Viguera
Managing Director & The Diplomat
Amauri has amassed his 10,000+ hours of experience at organizations like KPMG, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Citi, where he consistently delivered. He occasionally jokes that, "I guess when you count it, I've been getting paid for doing "computer stuff" for about 25 years or so".
When circumstances appear to be impossible, he grabs a pack of Red Bull or Monster and Amauri finds a way to successfully close off a project. Never shy to provide a candid assessment of a situation, he then focuses on delivery. Amauri has both breadth and depth with Windows, Linux, Databases, email, collaboration software and anything else tech.
He has been doing troubleshooting since he messed up the CONFIG.SYS on an 8088 back in the day and it wouldn't boot. In the middle of pulling memory chips, it dawned on him that the motherboard would mess up knuckles in a hurry so he made a note to not let it happen again to himself or anyone else. This inspired him to make sure that everyone works as smart and hard as he does.
Outside of work, Amauri is an accomplished world traveller, connoisseur and gourmet when the situation allows.
Mark Casey
Stacker & The Containerist
Mark has more than 15 years' experience working with technology in industries including fixed wireless, insurance, rental, interactive cloud training, most recently as a senior engineer for IBM Cloud. While he enjoys working with nearly all technologies, he is most passionate regarding innovations in content-addressable storage and container orchestration.
Outside of work he enjoys time with family, traveling, and browsing Steam sales for games he is definitely eventually going to play.
Michael Charo
Stacker & The Shadow
Michael has spent the last 20 years amassing a diverse set of knowledge and skills while helping companies ranging from mom-and-pop to large enterprises navigate their IT journey. Whether that was a server in a closet, a global network of datacenters, or a complex hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Michael worked at an international company for several years, where he was responsible for a wide variety of tasks (server management, resource planning, troubleshooting, tool building, etc) before taking his battle hardened skillset to one of the Big Four accounting firms. There he was responsible for automating many of the operational tasks, creating software packages, and building tooling to enhance consistency and velocity of other teams. Later he moved to the cloud automation team where he brought customer solutions to multiple cloud platforms, working on all aspects including architecture, development, troubleshooting, operations, and automation.
Outside of work, Michael enjoys tinkering with electronics, waiting on his 3D printer, and filling up his Kindle with books he'll read one day.
Josh Kropf
Stacker & The Code Slinger
Josh began his career as a sysadmin for a small ISP in the early 2000's. Maintaining servers and networks was a great experience, but his true passion was in software development.
In 2005, he joined a mobile software as a service company and he began to exercise his skills developing mobile software for banking, gaming and investment companies, utilizing the BlackBerry and Apple operating systems. Josh was responsible for the mobile apps themselves including supporting backend systems.
He continued to advance his skills and Josh was recruited to take on the role of principal architect to build and enhance an industry leading experiential marketing data capture and activation, SaaS platform. He designed and architected the platform to securely process tens of millions of records for Fortune 100 firms.
In his spare time you'll find Josh tinkering with electronics, cooking delicious food, or playing on his Minecraft server.
Hai Nguyen
Stacker & The Registry
Hai joined Opstack with more than a decade of experience delivering technology solutions for university, healthcare, and finance organizations. He started his journey in IT working in helpdesk and has grown to implement and support everything from desktops to servers, databases, and network infrastructures. Most recently he has designed and built custom automation of data integration processes while developing custom database driven applications.
Outside of work, Hai enjoys working on cars and not getting injured in a variety of sports.
Matthew Slanker
Stacker & The Alchemist
Matthew's journey to OpStack began 16 years ago at Motorola, where he was hired as a mobile phone repair technician, and later wrote software to automate their warranty claims analysis and reporting. Documenting, understanding and automating things has always been in his blood.
Matthew was hired by a fellow Stacker to work at NCH. Initially a member of the help desk, he advanced quickly after voluntarily automating the iPhone setup process for their sales reps. This little project caught the attention of the Development Team, which he later joined before ultimately he returned to Operations as a Sys Admin. Having become well versed in troubleshooting, customer service, software development, and operations, Matthew continued his quest to automate all the things by joining the prestigious Cloud and Automation Team at KPMG.
When he is not with his family or stacking for our customers, he is with his hobbies. Matthew is a serial tinkerer and has an extensive list of hobbies which include learning languages (primarily Japanese), photography, and drawing to name a few. Ask Matthew about making your own keyboard.
Adam Wenger
Stacker & The Sequel
Adam brings 17 years of database experience with him from several industries. These include packaged software development, insurance, banking, and a Big 4 accounting firm.
When he's not tuning queries or optimizing procedures, you'll find him automating manual processes and removing pain points. His main interest at work is trying to make queries and automated tasks as efficient as possible. Adam's largest automation victory was a custom CI/CD process for a previous development team, saving his team months of manual person-hours each year.
When Adam isn't working, he enjoys traveling and playing with his wife and their two kids, as well as playing traditional JRPGs.
Travis Bounds
Stacker & The Rookie
Travis began his IT career over a decade ago in college, landing a role at a small MSP despite lacking experience. Excelling with customer service, Travis quickly stacked up a breadth of experience across IT including onsite support, system design and consulting, and sales and marketing.
Transitioning to a management role and eventually a DevOps role at an automotive SaaS company, Travis quickly led the customer service efforts in his new endeavor and played a critical role in real time monitoring and remediation of live systems while also managing the technical support teams during incident responses. Travis used his limited access to databases and application code to assist with his ultimate goal of customer support and product stability. Leveraging his expertise in customer service and incident response, Travis has also worked in AWS contributing to cloud architecture support and design while also enhancing system security through vulnerability assessment and protection.
When not stacking you can find Travis spending time with his family, weightlifting, or falling down a rabbit hole while fixating on a new obscure topic.
Chuck Kelley
Advisor & The Data Guru
Chuck has led, managed, designed and built all types of data platforms. He has worked in Data Architecture most of his career at Amazon.com, Group Health Cooperative, DealerTrack, Excellence In Data, and Digital Equipment Corporation. He leverages his expertise with databases, data modeling, and ETL tools to effectively store and deliver critical information for businesses.
His specialty is the back-end and he has been making "Data" a critical asset to organizations before it was fashionable.
He has written books and contributed to numerous published pieces such as DEC Rdb/VMS: Developing the Data Warehouse, Impossible Data Warehouse Situations, The Internet Encyclopedia and Business Intelligence Implementation: Issues and Perspectives.
Things that will get Chuck talking are Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Database Models, Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Marts, Business Intelligence, Data Architecture, Santa Claus and Christmas.
Services
Simplify. Standardize. Automate. Monitor.
We help you get from where you are to where you want to be.
Cloud Architecture & Operations
Cloud architecture and operating models drift out of alignment as platforms evolve.
Our senior-led working sessions examine architecture, automation, operations, and risk to build a prioritized modernization plan grounded in operational reality.
GenAI Strategy & Governance
AI initiatives fail without clear execution paths and create unnecessary risk.
We help you identify viable use cases, define controls, and design integration patterns to provide clear direction for responsible AI deployment.
Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation
Manual operations introduce inconsistency, delay, and avoidable risk.
We implement codified infrastructure, standardized automation, and repeatable builds for fast, secure, and auditable environment delivery.
Critical Platform or Database Migration
High-risk transitions without disciplined execution create downtime and instability.
Our automated builds, staged migration, and controlled cutover ensure a successful transition with minimal downtime.
Critical Platform or Database Support
Business-critical systems need experienced operators watching performance, reliability, and risk every day.
Our remote DBA, DevOps, and Cloud Engineering support gives you senior operational coverage and faster issue resolution without the cost and overhead of a full-time team.
Compliance Readiness & Continuous Controls
Manual compliance processes drain engineering time and increase security risk.
We implement controls, continuous evidence collection, and real-time visibility for sustainable compliance and audit-ready operations.
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We're here to listen and help. Share your story with us. Together, let's approach your next project and drive operational excellence with thoughtful operations.
Connect With UsStrategic Alliances
OpStack was formed because we like and trust each other. Nothing is of more importance to a successful business than working with the right people.
When it comes to partnerships, that's even more crucial. The teams and technologies you work with can make or break your customer, your business, your prosperity, and by extension, your well-being.
Open Source
Communities
We formed OpStack to be different. We believe that having an open bond with others builds valuable relationships. In addition to our partners above, we work with and participate actively in the community.
These communities are important sources of technical innovation, helping many firms develop successful market and profit strategies. We are strong supporters, beneficiaries and contributors of open source and open source projects.
