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Cloud & DevOps
Embedded SREs and platform engineers. AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform — production-grade from the first PR.
Engineers, embedded with your team.
We place senior IT engineers, network architects, DevOps, PMs and AI specialists into your delivery — on European hours, at honest rates. Commits in week one, not quarter two.
30 min · no pitch deck
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2 wks
to first PR shipped
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8+ yrs
avg. seniority
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CET
EU + 6h US East
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—
no agency fluff
/ SERVICES — 06
What we do.
Six disciplines, one operating model: senior people, embedded into your team for as long as you need them. Days, sprints, or years.
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Network Engineering
Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Arista. Greenfield builds, brownfield audits, 24/7 ops, ZTNA migrations.
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IT Engineering
Senior full-stack, backend, integration. Java, Go, Python, TypeScript. We join standups, code review, and on-call rotations.
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Project & Program Management
Embedded delivery leads who run sprints, vendor coordination, and stakeholder cadence — in your tools, your rituals.
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Data Engineering
Pipelines, warehouses, lakehouses. Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Spark. We ship the boring infrastructure that makes analytics possible.
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AI & ML Consultancy
From a notebook PoC to a model in production with monitoring, evals, and a real cost line. LLM apps and classical ML, both.
/ HOW WE WORK — 04 STEPS
From brief to first commit, 7 days.
No 14-page proposals. No three-month discovery. We move at the pace your delivery team actually moves.
- / STEP 01
Brief
30-minute call. You describe the gap. We tell you, plainly, whether we can fill it.
- / STEP 02
Match
Within five business days you meet 1–3 candidates. CVs are real, profiles are honest. No bench filler.
- / STEP 03
Embed
They join your standup, your repo, your Slack. CET hours by default, follow-the-sun if needed.
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Operate
You manage the work. We handle contracts, payroll, sick cover, and ramp-down. Monthly check-in, quarterly retro.
Start with a brief →
Or email hello@nearcore.it
/ ENGAGEMENT MODELS — 03
Three shapes. No surprises.
Pick the shape that matches your gap. We'll tell you in the first call which fits — and when none does.
Embedded individuals
Body leasing, simplifiedOne or more senior engineers join your team and delivery process. You manage; we handle the contract.
- CET hours, your tools
- Day rate, monthly invoice
- Notice: 30 days either way
Dedicated squad
Cross-functional podA self-organising team of 3–8 (engineers + PM + lead) shipping a defined outcome alongside your roadmap.
- Weekly demos, monthly retros
- Fixed scope or T&M
- Lead is your single contact
Advisory & audit
Short, sharp, specificA senior practitioner for 5–20 days — architecture review, network audit, hiring loop calibration, AI readiness.
- Written deliverable
- No long-tail upsell
- Booked weeks in advance
/ CASES — RECENT
What we've shipped.
A small selection. Names redacted on request — full references on the call.
Replatformed a 12-year-old monolith without freezing the roadmap
A Tier-1 manufacturer needed Kubernetes adoption alongside live feature delivery. We embedded 3 SREs and 1 platform PM for 9 months.
Discuss a similar engagement →- Deploy frequency
- 3×/wk → 41×/wk
- Build time
- 38m → 6m
- MTTR
- 4h → 22m
Built the network for a regional MVNO launch
Greenfield SD-WAN and core routing across 14 sites. Two senior network engineers delivered design, build, and 30-day cut-over.
Discuss a similar engagement →- Sites cut over
- 14 / 14
- Unplanned downtime
- 0 min
- Time to launch
- 11 weeks
Took an in-house LLM tool from notebook to clinic
A medical imaging vendor had a working model, no path to production. Two ML engineers shipped MLOps, evals, and human-review tooling.
Read the full case →- Inference latency
- 9.4s → 410ms
- Eval pass rate
- 71% → 94%
- Time to GA
- 5 months
/ TESTIMONIALS — IN THE FIELD
What clients actually say.
No NDA-blanked logos, no five-stars. Concrete moments, named people, work that shipped. Anonymized only where the client requires it.
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Two senior SREs landed in our Slack on a Tuesday. By Friday they'd cut our deploy time in half and rewritten the runbook nobody on our side had ever finished.
EW
Elena Weber · VP Engineering
DACH FinTech · Frankfurt
Embedded PM, real commits, no slide-deck consulting. Hit a regulatory milestone we'd missed twice.
JN
Jakub Nowak
DELIVERY LEAD · MEDTECH
We needed a Cisco architect for ten weeks, not a partnership pitch. They sent one. Done.
MT
Marc Tanner
CTO · INDUSTRIAL TELCO
Their data engineer walked into a half-built warehouse and shipped clean dashboards in week three. Stayed for the migration.
AR
Amélie Roux
HEAD OF DATA · AGRITECH
/ TRUSTED BY TEAMS AT
ATLAS BANK
NORDLAB
CIRCA·HEALTH
POLARIS
TIMEWELL
KEYWALL
/ TEAM — DEEP BENCH
Senior practitioners, not pickup squads.
Most of our network has 8+ years in production environments. They've shipped under regulators, on-call rotations, and audit loops. They're allergic to slide-deck consulting.
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180+
Engineers in the network
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8.4
Avg. years in practice
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EN · DE · FR
Languages we work in
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5 days
Time to first match
Proximity.
Direct contact with the people doing the work. No layers, no account managers between you and the engineer.
Honesty.
We say no when a fit is wrong. We tell you when a model isn't what you need. We surface bad news first.
Permanence.
Most placements run 9+ months. Engineers stick because we hire well and pay well.
/ FAQ
Common questions.
How fast can someone start?
Most placements start within 7–10 business days of the brief call. Match in 5, paperwork in 3, onboarding day on day 8.
Who manages the engineer day-to-day?
You do. They join your standups, your repos, your sprint board. We handle contracts, payroll, sick cover, ramp-down, and the quarterly retro — nothing in between.
What if it isn't working out?
30-day notice either way, no penalties. We'd rather end well than drag a bad fit. In four years it has happened twice; both times we replaced the placement at no cost.
How do you price?
Day rate, monthly invoice, no setup fees. Rates depend on seniority and discipline — typically 30–55% below comparable Western European or US rates, without the usual offshore quality compromise.
Where are your engineers based?
Across Central and Eastern Europe — Poland, Czechia, Romania, Portugal, Spain — plus a smaller bench in DACH. All work CET by default; we'll match other timezones if the engagement requires it.
Do you work with regulated industries?
Yes — finance, healthcare/MedTech, pharma, public sector. Engineers carry the relevant background checks and we have NDA + DPA templates ready to sign.
/ CONTACT — 30 MIN
Brief us.
Tell us the gap. We'll tell you, in plain words, whether we can fill it — and what shape it takes.