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Senior platform work,
shipped as a product.

QuantumDev Labs is a one-person studio publishing the production-shaped DevOps stacks I'd otherwise build for solo founders one Slack thread at a time.

§ 01 Premise

Solo builders deserve production infrastructure too.

Every solo founder ships their first prod app on a stack that was never meant to leave a tutorial. Public Cloud SQL. Default VPC. A service account with roles/owner. Secrets in plain env blocks. A deploy workflow floating actions/checkout@v4.

It works in demo. It works for the first month. Then a bot finds the database, a bill spikes, or an AI assistant happily refactors the IAM until something explodes. The "real" shape — VPC-isolated DB, IAM-scoped, CMEK, WIF deploy — exists, but it's scattered across twelve tutorials and three subtly-wrong blog posts. This studio collapses that into a stack you buy once.

§ 02 Principles

What this studio will never do.

01

No SaaS subscription.

Buy the artifact. Own it. Run it on your account. The studio does not have a foothold on your infra.

02

No vendor lock-in.

The output is plain Terraform. You can read every line, fork it, take it to your next project.

03

No tutorial-grade defaults.

If the default isn't what a senior platform engineer would set on day one, it's not the default.

§ 03 Where the opinions come from

The shapes shipped here, every day.

Years of running production GCP, Terraform, and serverless work for other people's teams. The stacks sold here are the same shapes — just productised, hardened, and ready for a single solo apply.

PLATFORM Production runtime + data Cloud Run · Cloud SQL · KMS · Secret Manager · IAM
NETWORK Private-by-default infra Custom VPCs · NAT · Direct VPC Egress · service peering
SUPPLY Hardened deploy chain WIF · SHA-pinned actions · scoped tokens · pre-commit hooks
FINOPS Cost-bounded by default Budgets · forecasted alerts · documented cost-tier knobs
§ 04 Roadmap

What's coming.

Each new stack ships when it's the same kind of opinionated, hardened, one-command artifact as QDL-001. Not a day before.

QDL-001 GCP Cloud Run Production Stack Available · $129
QDL-002 Event-Driven Worker Stack (Cloud Run Jobs + Pub/Sub + Eventarc) In design · Q3 '26
QDL-003 AWS ECS Fargate Production Stack Scoping · Q4 '26
QDL-??? Open to requests — what would you buy? [email protected]
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