CloudScale Consulting is a specialist technology consultancy and software product business. We sell AI-powered WordPress plugins for small businesses: SEO automation and cyber resilience, and deliver enterprise consulting in AWS architecture, cybersecurity, and Zero Trust. Grounded in engineering leadership at AWS, Capitec Bank, and ABSA Group.
Leadership experience across
EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC: designed for the workloads that actually break things. Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, right-sized from the start.
Zero-trust network access, AI-powered penetration testing, 2FA enforcement, brute-force protection, and continuous threat monitoring, for WordPress and beyond.
Inherited a broken platform? Scaled past your architecture? We diagnose and fix large-scale technology systems, from legacy modernisation to cloud migrations that have gone wrong.
MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aurora: schema design, query optimisation, and replication strategies honed across banking-grade transactional workloads.
Practical AI: Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini wired into your workflows. Penetration testing, SEO, content analysis, code review, using frontier models, not wrappers.
BGP, SD-WAN, Cloudflare Workers, ZTNA, DNS, TLS, the unglamorous work that keeps production running when everything else is on fire.
Two AI-powered products at $10/month. Three utility plugins free forever.
CloudScale Consulting is a specialist technology consultancy led by Andrew Baker: Group CIO at Capitec Bank, former Director of Engineering EC2 at AWS, former CTO at ABSA Group. The advice comes from having actually operated these systems at the highest level, and knowing exactly where they break.
We focus on four disciplines where we have genuine depth: AWS architecture, cybersecurity, Zero Trust network access, and rearchitecting large-scale platforms that have hit their limits. If a recommendation hasn't survived contact with production, it doesn't make it here.