Aleks is short for Oleksandr.
What Aleks ships to production
The infrahouse GitHub org has ~69 Terraform modules I wrote and maintain — ECS services, ALB, RDS, ACM, Route 53, IAM, Control Tower account vending, and more. They are versioned, tested, and running in production.
At TinyFish I designed and operate the full AWS environment: Control Tower with per-service sandbox and production accounts, GitHub Actions CI/CD backed by those modules, and the ISO 27001 certified environment that passed the audit. Every resource is managed by Terraform in repositories the company owns.
The github-control pattern is how I manage GitHub itself — org membership, team structure, repository settings, branch protection — all in Terraform, reviewed through pull requests like any other infrastructure change.
Why InfraHouse exists
I spent about a decade running database infrastructure at scale — Dropbox, Box, Pinterest. Those companies had dedicated teams, internal tooling, and years of accumulated practice around how you change infrastructure safely, how you handle access, how you make a system auditable. That knowledge is not exotic, but it is also not written down anywhere a startup can easily find it.
Enterprise security reviews ask specific questions: where does the data live, who has access, how is access logged, what is your change management process. Companies that have never had to answer those questions formally usually cannot answer them cleanly, and the sales cycle stalls.
The hard part is not the AWS configuration — it is having a foundation that was designed with those questions in mind from the start, so you are not rebuilding it under deadline six months later. Terraform, GitHub Actions, Control Tower, and least-privilege IAM are not unusual choices. They are what a DevOps engineer you eventually hire will expect to find. Getting there before the pressure hits is just a timing decision.
Speaking and writing
I write about AWS, Terraform, and the practical tradeoffs of running production infrastructure on a small team.
Contact
Email: aleks@infrahouse.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/akuzminsky