Engineering judgment,
when it counts.
The hardest problems in modern software live where AI, cloud, and data meet, and most teams hire three firms to cover that ground. Sophova covers it as one.
Why Sophova exists.
Too many companies inherit systems they can't see into and can't afford to touch. AI pilots that never reach production. Cloud bills nobody can explain. Migrations that slip for a year.
Sophova is the opposite of that. Senior engineering, the trade-offs made explicit, and systems your team can actually run once I'm gone. No black boxes, no lock-in to me.
A Connecticut practice that works with teams anywhere. Small by design, deep by necessity.
Senior engineers, no layers
You work directly with the people building your systems. No account managers translating in the middle.
AI and cloud under one roof
The hard problems live where AI meets infrastructure. We do both, so nothing falls through the cracks.
We leave you stronger
Every engagement ends with your team able to operate what we built. We're not trying to live in your org chart.
Security and cost, from day one
Not bolted on at the end. We build environments that are auditable and cost-aware from the first commit.
Arun Daniel
Founder & Principal Engineer, Sophova LLC
Every Sophova engagement is led hands-on by me: 15+ years designing and automating secure multi-account AWS environments, Terraform platforms, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted engineering workflows for enterprise clients. Currently a principal engineer on a national consulting bench, an AWS Ambassador, and an internal AWS Black Belt.
The work behind the writing is real: org-wide security pipelines, golden AMI factories, EventBridge-first SIEMs with AI triage, data center exits on MGN and DRS, and FinOps reviews that paid for themselves. When you hire Sophova, that experience is what shows up — not a delivery team you have never met.
Read the field notes in Field Notes or the long-form archive at awsgrub.com.
A process you can hold me to.
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.