✦AI & Cloud Engineering·Est. 2026·Connecticut
Intelligent systems,
engineered to be trusted.
Sophova is a one-person AI and cloud engineering practice. Senior work with no layers in between, built to be secure and cost-aware from the first commit, and handed back so your team can run it.
The hard problems live where AI meets infrastructure. Most teams hire three firms to cover that ground.
Sophova covers it as one. You get senior engineering judgment, the trade-offs made explicit before anyone writes code, and systems your team can operate once I'm gone. No black boxes, no lock-in to me.
How I workFifteen disciplines, one accountable person.
Artificial Intelligence
The few AI use cases worth doing, shipped to production with guardrails.
- AI Consulting
- AI Agents
- Generative AI
- Machine Learning
- Enterprise Automation
Cloud & Platform
Secure, cost-aware AWS foundations, Kubernetes, and pipelines you can operate.
- AWS Cloud Architecture
- Cloud Migration
- Cloud Security
- Kubernetes
- DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- FinOps
Data & Software
Reliable pipelines, legacy untangled, and the custom builds nothing off-the-shelf fits.
- Data Engineering
- Application Modernization
- Custom Software
Not sure where to start? Get a free read on your AWS account.
A read-only look at your security exposure, wasted spend, and the best-practice gaps that bite as you scale. It runs entirely on my side, nothing is deployed in your account, and there is no obligation.
Read-only · Runs on my side · No obligation
A process you can hold me to.
Every engagement runs the same four beats. You always know what is happening and why.
Understand
We start with your business, not your tech stack. We learn the constraints, the goals, and where the real friction is.
Architect
A clear plan with trade-offs made explicit. You see the design, the cost, and the risks before anyone writes code.
Build
Senior engineers ship in small, reviewable increments. Everything is automated, tested, and documented as we go.
Operate
We harden, monitor, and hand off cleanly, leaving your team with systems they can run and improve themselves.
Proof, not promises.
Real engagements, written up by the person who did the work. If you want to know how I think, read the work.
You know exactly who does the work.
Every Sophova engagement is led hands-on by Arun Daniel: 15+ years designing and automating secure multi-account AWS environments, Terraform platforms, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted engineering for enterprise clients.
When you hire Sophova, that experience is what shows up — an AWS Ambassador and internal Black Belt, not a delivery team you have never met.
Questions, answered straight.
Most work is fixed-scope projects or monthly retainers. We agree on outcomes and a price up front, so there are no surprises on the invoice.
AWS is our home turf and where we go deepest, but the AI, data, and automation work is cloud-agnostic. We meet you where your systems are.
Yes. A short discovery engagement turns a vague goal into a scored, sequenced plan you can act on, with or without us building it.
That's the point. Everything is infrastructure-as-code, documented, and handed off with the knowledge transfer to run it yourselves.
Discovery can usually begin within a week or two. Larger builds are scheduled around a kickoff once scope is agreed.