who@techdriven:~$ cat about/identity.md

WHO WE ARE · CHICAGO · CABLING TO CLOUD

We've worked every layer
of the stack, first-hand.

TechDriven is a small crew of senior engineers who came up through field engineering, datacenter operations, enterprise networks, and cloud infrastructure. No account managers, no handoffs — the person who scopes your work is the person who does it.

Fortune 500 & SMB127+ projects deliveredsenior engineers only

Cabling & racksServers & storageNetwork & firewallIdentity & directoryCloud & hybridObservabilityApps, data & AI
Rack→Edge
FULL-STACK COVERAGE
6+
ENTERPRISE ORGS
127+
PROJECTS DELIVERED
0
HANDOFFS MID-PROJECT

story@techdriven:~$ cat origin.md

Built from the bottom of the stack up.

// no conference rooms were involved.

TechDriven wasn't built in a conference room. It was built in the field — racking gear at 2am before a site opens, troubleshooting a JD Edwards crash in a private datacenter, and racing to restore connectivity for a hospitality chain during peak hours.

Our team has held roles across Fortune 500 companies and scrappy local businesses alike. We've done physical security installs, multi-site field engineering, datacenter operations, cloud infrastructure, network design, and everything in between.

That breadth isn't an accident — it's the product. When you work with TechDriven, you get people who understand how every layer affects every other layer, because we've broken things at every layer and fixed them too.

WHERE WE CAME UP

01Retail & hospitality field workMulti-site rollouts, site-down triage, peak-hours recovery.
02Datacenter operationsRack-and-stack, ERP crash forensics, change windows that held.
03Enterprise networksSegmentation, wireless design, and the firewall rules nobody owned.
04Cloud & automationMigrations, pipelines, and observability that pages a human early.
EXPERIENCE AT·FORTUNE 500·HOSPITALITY·RETAIL·TELECOM·HEALTHCARE·CLOUD·PHYSICAL SECURITY·MANUFACTURING·

ops@techdriven:~$ tail -f principles.log

How we actually operate.

// five rules we don't break, even when it costs us the invoice.

SYS://PRINCIPLES
[01]ROOT CAUSEA fix isn't done because the symptom stopped. It's done when we know why it happened.[02]NO HANDOFFSYou get the engineer who scoped the work. When it gets hard, the same person digs deeper.[03]DOCUMENTEDConfigs, diagrams, and runbooks land in writing — in your repo, not locked in our heads.[04]NO LOCK-INWe build on tooling any competent engineer could pick up after us. Leaving should be easy.[05]HONEST SCOPEIf you don't need the project, we say so. Cheaper for you, better for us long term.

ai@techdriven:~$ systemctl status remediate.service

We fix systems. Then we make them fix themselves.

// AI is a tool in the rack — not a mascot.

We use AI like any other tool: Claude on the repetitive work, MCP wiring it into real systems, private models where the data can't leave. The goal isn't fewer engineers — it's engineers who only get paged for the interesting problems.

01Claude on the repetitive workRunbooks, log triage, and postmortems drafted before we even sit down.
02MCP wired into real systemsAutomation that talks to the tools you already run — not a chatbot bolted on top.
03Private models where data can't leaveOn-prem inference for the environments where the answer is still no.
Explore our Chicago AI infrastructure practice
AUTOMATION://JOURNAL
$ journalctl -u remediate.service --since 03:00
03:47:12WARNdb-prod-2 burst balance 4% — falling
03:47:13EXECrunbook rds-burst-mitigate
03:48:52OKbalance recovering — verified 3/3 checks
03:48:53WRITEpostmortem → journal/latest.md
$ grep -c PAGED /var/log/oncall.log
0
$

stack@techdriven:~$ rack --elevation --live

From the rack to the edge.

// the stuff that keeps infrastructure running — not just the shiny cloud parts.

RACK://ELEVATION

$ rack describe --unit 01

Containers & CI/CD

Build pipelines and reproducible deploys — so shipping stops being an event.

DOCKERPODMANCOMPOSEJENKINSARTIFACTORY
UNIT 01/08CLICK TO INSPECT · HOVER HOLDS

fit@techdriven:~$ grep -i "good fit" clients.csv

Who we're usually called by.

// three shapes of org — same standard of work.

NO IT TEAM

We run the stack

Restaurants, clinics, and multi-site operators who need someone to own the whole thing — endpoints, network, backups, and the vendor calls nobody wants to make.

SMALL IT TEAM

We take the project

Mid-market IT leads with a good team and no spare hours. We run the migration, the rebuild, or the audit — and hand it back documented.

FULL IT TEAM

We bring the specialist

Enterprise orgs needing field hands in a new market, deep network work, or an engineer who has actually done the thing before.

CONTACT://TECHDRIVEN

contact@techdriven:~$ ./start-conversation

Tell us what's broken. Or what you want built.

No forms in triplicate, no sales calls, no account managers. Just a real conversation with the person who's going to do the work.