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Principal AWS engineering, on your team in days — not months.

Skylynk is the principal-only AWS practice of Khalil Kasmi. One senior engineer in your repos, your Slack, and your sprints — no juniors, no account managers, no lock-in — who engineers himself out of the job with full knowledge transfer.

Book a discovery call ↗ Pricing — no paywall
200+
AWS accounts designed & managed
34%
Average AWS bill reduction
7+yrs
Production AWS — verifiable on LinkedIn
0
Juniors. Ever. The senior you meet does the work
01 — Point of view Why Skylynk

Hiring a senior AWS engineer takes six months and $180k a year — if you find one. Big consultancies bill you for a principal and send juniors. We do neither: the engineer you meet on the first call is the one writing your Terraform — inside your accounts, under your IAM, shipped through your review process.

Your stack, not ours
Your GitHub, Jira, Slack and AWS accounts. Nothing leaves your environment. Revoke access in one click.
Independence is the deliverable
Every engagement ends with docs, runbooks, ADRs and live enablement. We work ourselves out of the job.
Founder-led, verifiable
Skylynk is the independent practice of Khalil Kasmi ↗ — AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. References available on every discovery call.
02 — Capabilities

Five things, done properly.

/01
Cost Optimization

The engagement that pays for itself. We audit your bill line by line, then implement the fixes — not just a PDF of advice.

RightsizingSavings PlansFinOps30–60% typical
 /02
Cloud Architecture

Foundations that won't need redoing in 18 months. Reviews, migrations, multi-account design.

Well-ArchitectedLanding zonesMigrationsDR
 /03
DevOps & Platform

Ship faster on infrastructure your team actually understands — IaC from scratch or rescue.

TerraformGitOpsECS / EKSObservability
 /04
Security & Compliance

Audit-ready AWS, implemented hands-on. Data-residency aware for EU, UAE and KSA.

IAMGDPRSCPsAudit-ready logging
 /05
AI on AWS

Production AI infrastructure — past the proof-of-concept stage and into your P&L.

BedrockSageMakerRAGLLM cost / latency
Where most clients start A fixed-price cost-optimization sprint (for teams spending $25k+/month on AWS) — if the audit finds less than 15% in savings, the sprint is free. Or a Launchpad build, if you're starting from zero.
03 — The math

Three ways to get senior AWS capacity. One is fast.

Hiring full-time Big consultancy Skylynk
Time to start ✕4–6 months ✕4–8 weeks of SOWs ✓Under 5 business days
Who does the work Unknown until day one ✕Juniors behind a principal ✓The senior you talked to
Cost of senior capacity $180k+ salary & benefits $250k+ in billable hours ✓Fixed-price outcomes, from $12k
Flexibility ✕Severance & notice periods ✕Long lock-in contracts ✓Scale up or down monthly
Knowledge transfer Walks out if they quit Billed as a separate phase ✓Built into every engagement
04 — Coverage

One engineer. Four continents. Real overlap.

New YorkUTC−4
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4–6h daily overlap
Standups included
LondonUTC+1
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Full business day
EN / FR working languages
CasablancaUTC+1
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Full business day
Home base
DubaiUTC+4
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5–7h daily overlap
Sun–Thu weeks accommodated
Security & access

We work under your IAM with scoped, revocable roles — SSO, MFA and CloudTrail on everything. Your code and data never leave your accounts. Your security team can audit the model before we start.

Data residency

GDPR-aligned delivery for the EU, proven in production for a regulated payments company; data-residency-aware design for UAE and Saudi requirements on AWS me-central-1 and me-south-1.

Contracting

US clients contract with Skylynk LLC, a US-registered company, and are invoiced in USD (EUR and AED also supported). MSA & NDA templates ready — or we sign yours. Tax paperwork provided at signature.

05 — Selected work

Recent engagements, real numbers.

FinTech — Europe / West Africa

The AWS platform behind a regulated payments company — built from zero, run 24/7.

YMO, an e-money institution regulated by the Central Bank of Guinea, moves zero-fee remittances between Europe, the UK, Switzerland and West Africa. Skylynk designed the entire AWS platform from nothing — networking, compute, data, security, CI/CD — and still operates it today as the sole infrastructure engineer, on Terraform, Ansible, GitLab and Datadog. This is the architecture behind the Launchpad offer.

1M+
Users on the platform
0→1
Entire platform, one engineer
24/7
Payments-grade on-call, since 2022
SaaS — United States

38% off a $61k/month AWS bill, in three weeks.

A Series-B analytics platform was burning runway on over-provisioned EC2 and unmanaged data transfer. We rightsized compute, restructured NAT routing, moved storage tiers and locked in Savings Plans — every change shipped through their own PR process.

−38%
Monthly AWS spend
3 wks
Kickoff to savings
$280k
Annualized savings
EdTech — Europe

Monolith to EKS, zero downtime, mid exam-season.

A learning platform serving 400k students needed to survive 20× traffic spikes. We containerized the core monolith, built an EKS platform with autoscaling and GitOps deploys, trained their team to run it — and then left, as planned.

20×
Peak traffic handled
0
Downtime in migration
12 min
Deploys, down from 2h

※ Unnamed clients withheld under NDA — references for all engagements available on your discovery call.

06 — Pricing

Public pricing. No discovery-call paywall.

Cost SprintFixed scope
$12k/ sprint

A line-by-line audit of your AWS bill, then hands-on implementation of the fixes — in 2–4 weeks. If we find less than 15% in savings, the sprint is free. For teams spending $25k+/month on AWS.

  • Audit + implementation, not a PDF
  • Every change through your PR process
  • Savings guarantee — or it's free
  • Docs & handoff included
Scope a sprint
LaunchpadFlagship
from $30k/ build

A production-ready AWS foundation, built from zero in about six weeks — landing zone, IaC, CI/CD, observability, audit-ready logging and IAM. The same architecture running a regulated payments company today.

  • Multi-account foundation, all Terraform
  • CI/CD + observability from day one
  • Built for audit: logging, IAM, guardrails
  • Your accounts, your repos, your keys
  • Fixed price, fixed timeline
Scope a build ↗
RunOngoing
$2.5k/ month

Your platform, watched by the engineer who knows it: monthly cost & security review, drift and anomaly alerts, PR & design reviews, incident escalation.

  • Monthly cost & security review
  • PR & design reviews
  • Incident escalation support
  • Pause or cancel monthly
Keep it running

Unscoped or exploratory work: $950/day, three-day minimum · Full-time embedded seat: from $18k/month, one client at a time, by application · Invoicing in USD, EUR or AED · Cancel monthly plans with two weeks' notice · Principal-level only — every hour is the founder's.

07 — FAQ

The questions you're actually wondering about.

Skylynk works remotely from Europe (CET) — full-day overlap with European, African and Middle Eastern clients, and a guaranteed 4+ hours of overlap with US business hours: enough for standups, pairing and same-day answers to blocking questions. Everything else runs async with written updates and recorded demos. Most clients say communication is better than with on-site contractors, because writing things down is the default here.
We never copy your code or data into our own environment. You grant scoped IAM roles under your own identity provider (SSO + MFA enforced), limited to the engagement scope, with CloudTrail auditing everything we touch. Repo access goes through your GitHub/GitLab org. You can revoke everything in one click, at any moment — and we'll walk your security team through the model before we start.
Khalil Kasmi — Skylynk's founder, and its only engineer. That's the point: no juniors to hand work down to, no account managers in between, and no bait-and-switch after the discovery call. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional and HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate, with 7+ years of production AWS across US and European companies — all of it verifiable on LinkedIn.
Simply. US clients contract with Skylynk LLC, a US-registered company, and are invoiced in USD — EUR and AED are also supported — payable by bank transfer or card. Standard MSA and NDA templates are ready, or we sign yours, and tax paperwork is provided at signature. No surprises, no fine print.
The opposite — independence is the deliverable. Every engagement ends with a mandatory handoff package: architecture decision records, runbooks, diagrams and live enablement sessions. All code lives in your repos under your ownership from day one. Clients come back for new projects — never because they're locked in.
Yes — compliance-ready AWS is a core service. Skylynk built, and still operates, the AWS platform of a regulated e-money institution handling cross-border payments, and delivers GDPR-aligned environments with audit-ready logging, scoped IAM and guardrails from day one. We also understand data-residency requirements in the EU, UAE and Saudi Arabia (AWS me-central-1, me-south-1). Since we work inside your accounts and your data never moves, the compliance footprint of working with us stays small.
No catch — geography and structure. We're based where senior engineering talent costs less than San Francisco, with zero overhead: no sales team, no office towers, no partner margins, no bench of juniors to subsidize. You pay for engineering, not for a brand — which is why we publish our process, our handoff guarantees, and offer references on request.