About

BigMike.help is a DevOps and Python automation service for production systems. I help startups, product teams, and small businesses bring order to infrastructure, make releases predictable, remove manual chaos, and reduce dependence on constant firefighting.

DevOps stabilization means something very practical for the business: fewer outages, faster recovery, calmer releases, and less manual routine that drains the team and slows the product down. The point is not to pile on more tools, but to turn fragile infrastructure into a system you can manage, trust, and change without constant stress.

Typical work includes:

1. Infrastructure audits and a clear remediation plan, so it is obvious where the system is losing resilience and money.
2. CI/CD design, release stabilization, and deployment hardening, so updates stop feeling risky.
3. Monitoring, alerting, backups, and recovery workflows, so issues are noticed earlier and recovery does not turn into improvisation.
4. Python automation for repetitive operational tasks and integrations, so the team spends time on the product instead of repetitive manual work.

About the author

My name is Mikhail Gorbachev. From 2005 to 2013 I was a chief technical officer, and from 2013 to 2023 a chief executive officer, in telecom and at communications operators. The operator’s network was over 500 km of fibre-optic lines across five districts of the Moscow region. I have worked in DevOps since 2023. Profiles: LinkedIn, GitHub.

About the co-author

Python articles are written by Aleksei Panfilov, CEO and lead Python developer. Profiles: LinkedIn, Habr.

Aleksei’s project: Claude de Pace.

If you need more than a set of disconnected fixes and want infrastructure that works calmly and predictably, start with the Contacts page. For operating principles and security reporting, see the Security page.