Cloud architecture & IaC
AWS and Google Cloud foundations designed for security, cost and change. Reusable Terraform and Pulumi modules, standardized and validated in the pipeline.
Independent DevOps & Cloud Consultancy
Infrastructure that ships, scales, and stays quiet at 3 a.m.
Retric helps engineering teams build reliable cloud platforms — Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and observability — and adopt AI-assisted engineering without giving up rigor. Two decades of operations experience, from tactical networks to production clusters for retail and financial-services workloads.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
- AWS Developer & SysOps – Associate
Services
Focused engagements, from a two-week assessment to an embedded platform build.
Kubernetes platforms
EKS and GKE clusters tuned from real load-test data: right-sized workloads, autoscaling and resilience patterns that cut spend while improving headroom.
CI/CD & developer platforms
Self-hosted GitLab on Kubernetes, reusable GitHub Actions, quality gates, protected branches and dev containers that make the right path the easy path.
Observability & SRE
SLO-driven monitoring, custom Prometheus exporters and dashboards that answer real questions. SRE bootstraps that bake reliability in from the first commit.
Security & compliance
PCI-aligned infrastructure, attribute-based IAM for multi-tenant teams, WAF management, secret hygiene and egress guardrails built into tooling.
AI-assisted engineering
Bring LLM agents into the delivery workflow safely: multi-persona code review, MCP tool servers, RAG pipelines, and the invariants and tests that keep agents honest.
How engagements work
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Assess
A short, concrete review of your delivery pipeline, cloud estate and on-call reality. You get a prioritized findings report — not a slide deck of buzzwords.
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Build
Hands-on implementation alongside your team, in your repositories, through your review process. Everything as code, everything tested.
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Hand off
Documentation, runbooks and pairing sessions so your engineers own the result. Success is when you no longer need us.
Open source
Tools and patterns from real engagements, published for anyone to use.
devops-cli
Workstation CLI for SREs: multi-repo Git, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Grafana and Prometheus workflows plus multi-persona AI code review and an MCP server.
github-actions
Reusable workflows and composite actions: Python quality gates, CodeQL scanning, releases and Kubernetes tool installs.
prisma-sase-exporter
Prometheus exporter for Palo Alto Prisma SASE and SD-WAN: device health, VPN overlay and BGP peers, with Grafana dashboards.
sre-bootstrap
Service template with Helm charts, IaC and observability wired in from day one: a starting point for a production-ready API.
About
Retric is the independent practice of Daniel Petty, a cloud and DevOps engineer based in Salt Lake City. The last decade has gone into building and modernizing infrastructure as a senior consultant and cloud engineer for retail, financial-services, media and aviation organizations, and as an AWS architect for a regulated SaaS platform.
Before that came eight years in U.S. Army IT and communications roles, including special operations — a lesson in building systems that work under pressure and that the people running them actually understand.
- 20+
- years in IT & operations
- 10+
- years of DevOps & cloud consulting
- AWS · GCP
- multi-cloud, PCI-aware delivery
- CKA
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Let's talk
Have a platform to build, a pipeline to fix, or an AI rollout to make safe? Send a short note about where you are and where you want to be.
[email protected]Remote across the United States · Based in Salt Lake City, UT