AI Infrastructure that runs in production
Kubernetes consulting designed for enterprise-grade scale. We bridge the gap between research prototypes and global production systems.
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US-Based Kubernetes Consulting Experts
THNKBIG is a cloud native consulting firm headquartered in Austin, Texas, serving enterprises across California, the greater United States, and globally. Our team of certified Kubernetes experts and DevOps engineers specializes in building production-grade AI infrastructure, MLOps pipelines, and platform engineering solutions that scale. With engineers based in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Ft Lauderdale, we provide both on-site and remote consulting services to organizations of every size.
Founded in 2009, we've deployed over 200 production Kubernetes clusters for Fortune 500 companies in energy, healthcare, financial services, and government sectors. Our approach combines deep technical expertise with a focus on operational excellence — we don't just deploy infrastructure, we ensure it runs reliably at scale while reducing costs by 40-60% on average. As a CNCF Silver Member, we're active contributors to the cloud native ecosystem and stay at the forefront of Kubernetes best practices.
What differentiates THNKBIG from other Kubernetes consulting services is our focus on measurable business outcomes. Every engagement begins with a free technical assessment where we identify specific opportunities for cost reduction, performance improvement, or operational efficiency. We don't bill hours to learn your environment — we come prepared with insights and recommendations from day one. Our engineers have operated production platforms at scale and bring that operational perspective to every architecture decision.
Whether you need Kubernetes consulting services in Texas, DevOps consulting in California, or cloud native architecture support anywhere in the US, our distributed team of engineers is ready to help. We specialize in GPU orchestration for AI/ML workloads, GitOps implementations with ArgoCD and Flux, multi-cluster management with Rancher, and zero-trust security architectures that meet SOC 2, HIPAA, and FedRAMP compliance requirements. Our clients include enterprises in Austin, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington DC across healthcare, financial services, energy, manufacturing, and government sectors.
Why Enterprises Choose THNKBIG for Kubernetes Consulting
The Kubernetes consulting market is crowded with offshore providers and generalist IT consultancies. What makes THNKBIG different is our exclusive focus on cloud native infrastructure and our commitment to US-based engineering talent. Every engagement is led by senior engineers with a minimum of 10 years of experience in production infrastructure. We don't staff projects with junior engineers learning on your dime — we bring expertise from day one.
Our clients in Austin, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and across the United States appreciate our practical, outcome-focused approach. We don't believe in lengthy discovery phases or vague roadmaps. Within the first week of every engagement, we deliver actionable recommendations with clear ROI projections. Whether that's identifying $50,000/month in cloud cost savings, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes, or closing security gaps that could expose you to compliance violations — we focus on outcomes that justify the investment.
As a CNCF Silver Member and active participant in the Kubernetes community, we bring insights from the cutting edge of cloud native technology. You'll find THNKBIG engineers at KubeCon, contributing to open source projects, and publishing thought leadership on platform engineering best practices. This community involvement keeps us current with emerging technologies and ensures our recommendations reflect real-world battle-tested patterns, not theoretical ideals.
Our Core Services
Kubernetes Platform
Your team shouldn't be debugging CNI plugins at 2am. We design, deploy, and operate production Kubernetes — RKE2, EKS, bare metal — so your engineers ship features instead of fighting infrastructure.
AI/ML Infrastructure
GPUs are expensive. Idle GPUs are unforgivable. We build inference and training infrastructure with intelligent scheduling, spot orchestration, and autoscaling — so every dollar of compute actually works.
Security & Governance
Compliance isn't a checkbox — it's a deployment gate. We embed policy-as-code, image signing, and audit trails directly into your CI/CD pipeline. SOC2 and HIPAA controls enforced at the pipeline level — every deploy, not once a quarter.
The gap between AI prototype and production isn't code.
It's infrastructure.
66% of organizations run AI on Kubernetes, but only 7% deploy daily. The gap isn't ambition — it's the infrastructure maturity to ship reliably at scale.
Built by Engineers,
for Engineers.
No slideware. No "digital transformation" buzzwords. Just battle-tested infrastructure expertise.
Engineering First
We aren't project managers. We are senior infrastructure engineers who write code, build pipelines, and debug kernels.
Vendor Neutral
AWS, GCP, Azure, or Bare Metal. We architect the best solution for your specific workload, not our partnerships.
Production Focused
We don't build POCs that sit on a shelf. We build resilient systems designed to handle millions of requests.