SolarDevs

SolarDevs is a DevOps and cloud reliability partner for mid-market engineering teams based in Mexico. Founded by Diego Velez, the company works with companies running 10–200 employees, 3–30 developers, and $1M–$50M ARR. They focus on solving infrastructure problems that consume engineering time: runaway AWS costs, fragile deployments, reliability gaps, and scaling friction. Rather than parachute in as external consultants, SolarDevs integrates with your existing team and takes ownership of infrastructure challenges over time.

Services and capabilities

SolarDevs offers six core services, each aimed at reducing operational burden without hiring.

Cloud Infrastructure means designing and building cloud-native systems that scale reliably and cost-efficiently. DevOps covers CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation—the work that reduces both release risk and time-to-deployment. Platform Engineering builds internal developer platforms and self-service tooling so your team stops building on-the-fly and starts shipping to standardized workflows. Reliability & Production Systems is continuous operations: monitoring, incident response, and proactive reliability engineering to keep uptime high. Technical Consulting offers architecture reviews and strategic guidance without adding permanent headcount. Ruby on Rails Infrastructure is a specialization—they optimize and operate Rails apps at production scale, including database tuning and Rails-specific DevOps.

Two newer solution areas highlight where the market is moving. AI Operations Agents automate monitoring, anomaly detection, and remediation decisions so infrastructure runs itself rather than consuming on-call bandwidth. Cloud Reliability Engineering bundles SRE practices—SLOs, SLIs, observability, cost governance, deployment automation—into ongoing operations so infrastructure behaves like a predictable asset instead of a constant firefight.

Their framing is concrete: mid-market teams run on AWS, containers, and microservices but get stuck on three problems: cloud costs that climb without clear ownership, deployments that feel risky because CI/CD exists but production feels fragile, and scaling that breaks under traffic or dependency failures.

How they work

SolarDevs positions itself as an extension of your engineering team, not a vendor sending work back and forth. They integrate with your workflows, take ownership of infrastructure challenges, and adapt their engagement—ongoing operations, project-based work, or strategic guidance. Their stated approach is hands-on and practical: build systems that work and keep working. They measure success on business metrics: less downtime, lower cloud spend, faster response times. They market an "operational assessment" (described as a systems review with "no commitment") as the entry point.

The company targets CTOs and engineering leaders managing AWS, containers, and microservices in companies with real infrastructure complexity and cost pressure. They explicitly call out the audience: mid-market firms that need reliability without scaling ops headcount.

Team and credentials

Founded by Diego Velez, SolarDevs has not published team size on their website. No certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2, etc.), partner badges, or G2/Clutch ratings are mentioned in the source material.

Industries served

SolarDevs lists ten vertical markets: SaaS (uptime and cost control), Logistics (fleet and warehouse visibility), Healthcare (uptime and compliance), Enterprise IT (security and critical infrastructure), Nearshoring (international standards), Gaming (servers and live services), Software product companies, Productivity & collaboration tools, Security & compliance-focused firms, and Wellness & lifestyle apps. All are framed around the same core problem: companies with 20–50 employees needing reliable infrastructure without scaling ops.