Clarity over complexity
We choose the smallest useful system and make trade-offs visible, so the platform is easier to explain and evolve.
About Stratafold
Good infrastructure work should leave a team stronger.
Stratafold Cloud Works is a senior-led platform engineering studio helping organisations replace fragile infrastructure habits with understandable, repeatable systems. We bring experienced practitioners close to the work—and leave the capability with the people who own it.
How we work
Four principles. No theatre.
Our work is grounded in straightforward engineering judgement and respect for the realities of operating a product every day.
Automation with accountability
Automation should make safe work repeatable, with clear owners, review points and ways to recover.
Operational empathy
We design for the people on call, the people shipping features and the people responsible for assurance.
Knowledge transfer
Pairing, useful documentation and deliberate handover are part of delivery—not an optional extra.
The people doing the work
A small senior team, close to the details.
Seven distinct disciplines, one shared way of working: candid advice, thoughtful craft and a commitment to make the platform understandable.
Eleanor Hayes
Managing Director & Platform Strategist
Eleanor started her career in infrastructure operations, where she learned that architecture only matters when people can run it. She helps leadership teams turn a broad technology ambition into choices engineers can explain, test and maintain. Outside client work, she mentors early-career platform practitioners.
Marcus Bell
Principal Cloud Architect
Marcus has spent two decades designing cloud and network systems for teams with very different scales and risk profiles. He is known for making architecture trade-offs legible instead of hiding them behind diagrams. He enjoys repairing old radios and brings the same patience to untangling complex estates.
Priya Nanduri
Head of Platform Engineering
Priya builds platform capabilities around the moments that matter to developers: starting a service, making a change and recovering when something breaks. She has led internal platform teams in SaaS businesses and values adoption as much as technical elegance. On weekends she is usually exploring a new walking route.
Daniel Mercer
Site Reliability Engineering Lead
Daniel brings operational experience from high-traffic services, where small reliability decisions become visible quickly. He helps teams design useful alerts, practise recovery and learn from incidents without blame. His favourite work is turning a stressful on-call pattern into a clear, shared improvement plan.
Imogen Clarke
Cloud Security & Governance Lead
Imogen works at the point where engineering practice meets assurance. She helps teams shape access, evidence and control design so that security expectations are understandable in the flow of delivery. Her background spans cloud governance and product security, and she is a firm believer in asking better questions early.
Noah Bennett
Developer Experience Engineer
Noah is interested in the small frictions that quietly consume a developer’s day. They combine workflow research with practical automation, then iterate with the people who will use what they make. Before joining Stratafold, Noah worked across internal tooling and application delivery, learning to keep interfaces calm and direct.
Sofia Romano
Client Delivery Director
Sofia keeps complex engagements grounded in shared expectations, clear communication and decisions made at the right level. She has coordinated engineering programmes across European and North American teams, with a particular focus on thoughtful handovers. Away from work, she is a keen home cook and collector of well-used recipe books.
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