Bear Metal

Engineering Tomorrow’s Systems

We build the infrastructure that lets operators trust unmanned systems at scale. That covers secure enrollment, key management, verifiable provenance and firmware updates for PX4 and Zephyr fleets.

Infrastructure setup and maintenance

Experience with infrastructure setup and maintenance for a variety of applications and platforms. Operated extreme scale infrastructure at planetary scale.

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS: Production cloud infrastructure: IAM, networking, compute, and managed services.
  • GCP: Cloud platform delivery: VPCs, workloads, observability, and cost control.
  • Terraform: Infrastructure as code: reproducible environments and safe change management.

Orchestration & Fleet

  • Kubernetes: Cluster orchestration, deployments, networking, and day‑2 operations.
  • Rancher: Kubernetes fleet management: cluster lifecycle, policy, and access control.
  • Zededa: Edge fleet orchestration: provisioning, updates, and secure device operations.

Observability

  • Grafana: Dashboards, alerting, and operational visibility for teams and stakeholders.
  • Cortex: Metrics at scale: ingestion, long-term storage, and multi-tenant query patterns.

Streaming, CDC & Processing

  • Apache Kafka: Durable event streaming for high-throughput ingestion and distribution.
  • Debezium: Change data capture pipelines from databases into Kafka.
  • Confluent Schema Registry: Schema governance and compatibility for event/data contracts.
  • Apache Flink: Stateful stream processing and low-latency transformation workloads.
  • Apache Calcite: SQL parsing/optimization and query federation across diverse sources.

Databases, Warehousing & BI

  • PostgreSQL: Reliable relational database operations, performance tuning, and migrations.
  • CockroachDB: Distributed SQL with resilience, geo-replication, and strong consistency.
  • YugabyteDB: Distributed SQL for globally scalable transactional workloads.
  • InfluxDB: Time-series data storage for metrics and telemetry use cases.
  • Apache Superset: Self-service BI dashboards and exploration over operational/analytical data.