Our Story, Mission & the Team Behind It
We're a team of engineers, strategists, and security experts on a mission to make enterprise-grade technology accessible to growing businesses everywhere.
From Hands-On Engineering to a Full DevOps & Cloud Platform Partner
Groundwire Consulting started in 2011 the way most real technology practices do — with one engineer solving hard infrastructure problems for a handful of early clients, one server rack and one deployment at a time. As those engagements deepened, we grew into a specialized consultancy focused on the infrastructure problems that mattered most: cloud migrations, automation, and the operational discipline that keeps systems running. That specialization matured into a full consulting firm, and today we operate as a dedicated IT and AI services company — spanning AWS and Azure migration, Kubernetes and container platforms, Terraform infrastructure automation, CI/CD modernization, DevOps transformation, cloud cost optimization, observability and SRE, and AI-agent/MLOps infrastructure.
That progression — engineer, specialist, firm, services company — still shapes how we work. Every engagement is staffed by people who've run the infrastructure themselves, not account managers translating between you and an offshore delivery team. Today we partner with over 120 active clients across healthcare, finance, logistics, and retail worldwide, bringing the same hands-on rigor to a startup's first Kubernetes cluster as we do to an enterprise's multi-region cloud migration.
Our Mission
Empower growing businesses with enterprise-grade technology strategy, delivered with clarity, speed, and integrity.
Our Values
Security-first thinking, radical transparency, and a bias toward solutions that create measurable ROI — not just deliverables.
Our Promise
Every engagement pairs a technical lead with a business strategist so recommendations always map back to your goals.
Leaders in IT Strategy, Security & Software
Amara Johnson
Amara founded the firm after a 15-year career leading digital transformation programs across multiple industries and regions. She is passionate about helping growing businesses access enterprise-grade technology strategy.
MBA, PMP, 15+ years in enterprise IT strategyDavid Cooper
David leads our software development and cloud architecture practice. He previously architected large-scale distributed systems for global SaaS platforms before joining the firm full-time.
MS Computer Science, AWS & Azure Certified Solutions ArchitectSarah Okafor
Sarah brings over a decade of experience in cloud security operations and regulatory compliance across the healthcare and finance sectors.
CISSP, CEH, OSCPMichael Freeman
Michael designs data platforms and analytics solutions that help executives make faster, better-informed decisions.
MS Data Science, Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst AssociateWhat Our Clients Say
“They migrated our entire infrastructure to AWS and re-architected our deployment pipeline — our downtime dropped to nearly zero and releases that used to take a day now ship in minutes.”
“Their cloud cost optimization engagement saved us over $400,000 annually on our AWS bill without sacrificing performance. A genuinely rare combination of cost discipline and deep technical expertise.”
“From Kubernetes migrations to CI/CD pipelines and full observability tooling, this team has become an extension of our own — and they actually understand how to get DevOps right in a fast-moving business.”