About Me

Your team is growing fast, but your reliability practices haven't scaled with it. Maybe you're dealing with repeated outages and firefighting. Maybe you hired SREs or DevOps engineers, but incidents still happen and delivery is still slow. Maybe you know something's broken, but can't pinpoint what.

I'm Amin Astaneh, founder of Certo Modo. After 15 years building resilient systems from rocket ship startups to Big Tech, I've learned that reliability problems are rarely technical. They're organizational. When your feedback loops are broken (unclear production visibility, slow incident response, no learning from failures), no amount of tooling or headcount fixes it.

That's why I created RAPID, a structured diagnostic that identifies exactly where your system is misaligned and which improvements create the biggest impact. Watch this video to see how it works:

Based in Boston, serving engineering teams across the USA. Schedule a call!

Services

I offer a diverse set of services to help you along in your product's journey. Click one to learn more!

RAPID Assessment

Get your roadmap to operational maturity- FAST.


RAPID (Rapid Assessment of Production In-Depth) gives you a clear, evidence-based roadmap showing which reliability improvements will deliver the fastest ROI for your organization.

Through targeted interviews and questionnaires with engineering leaders and stakeholders, you receive a comprehensive, prioritized roadmap in one week, showing what's broken, why it matters, and what it takes to fix it.

Perfect for product/engineering leaders who need clarity before committing to large-scale changes.


$5000 for a company-wide assessment.

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The Reliability Relaunch

Turn diagnosis into results- in weeks, not quarters.


The Reliability Relaunch is a focused, intensive engagement that implements your RAPID roadmap with your team, delivering measurable improvements fast while building the organizational capability to sustain them.

You'll have the practices and capability in place for more rested engineers, predictable delivery, and customers who trust your platform.

Perfect for teams that need implementation support, lack specialized SRE expertise, or want to move faster than internal capacity allows.


Flat-fee engagement (RAPID included).

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Custom Engagements

Expert support for complex reliability problems.


Beyond structured assessments and implementation programs, I take on custom engagements- enablement for reliability SaaS platforms, technical training programs, and advisory for up-and-coming startups.

Whether you need training, support, or deep technical expertise on a unique challenge- I bring 15 years of large-scale production systems experience, tailored to your needs.

Staff-level SRE experience without the full-time commitment.


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Testimonials

Feedback from previous colleagues and clients!

Amin’s assessment gave us a valuable independent perspective on our production maturity … and gave us a clearer, more actionable view of where to focus our efforts.

Michael Badin SRE Manager, Compass Digital

His presentations speaking from the customer lens reframed the conversation for us and were instrumental in bringing leadership on board. … Definitely worth the investment.

Schuyler Fried Zuma

One of the most significant achievements of our collaboration was the successful conversion of our C-level staff. His vision and advice has created a movement internally to improve our reliability that can be felt all over the organization.

Shannon Vettes Akeneo
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My Blog

Announcements and lessons learned on our journey in making software engineering teams a better place to work! Subscribe to our mailinglist!

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DevOps Lessons From a Meta SRE

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I sat down with Better Stack’s podcast to discuss the AI velocity -> operational chaos thesis, my time at Meta, my SRE career in general, and a few tales from my life on the road!

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SRE is Ops With Boundaries

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Join fellow SRE Paige Cruz and yours truly on an exploration of my history being on-call, using multiple generations of observability tools, and how to make the experience as painless as possible.

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Contact Me

Interested in learning more about how I can help you tackle your team's operational challenges, or looking for a quote for a potential engagement? Contact me here!


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Phone: +1 (617) 702-2142

Email: contact@certomodo.io

Reliability Rebels Podcast

Check out my podcast (Reliability Rebels), where I discuss real-life experiences in improving reliability, often by challenging the status quo!


Let's transform your incidents into victories!

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