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Kavanaugh (Kav) Latiolais

Co-Founder | 25+ Years in Tech

Pelotech / Founder & Partner

About Kavanaugh

Kav Latiolais is a Co-Founder of Pelotech, a Kubernetes and cloud engineering consultancy he has built since 2012. With 25+ years in technology, he started his career at Microsoft before spending two decades founding and leading engineering teams in the startup world. Kav is passionate about building products that remove friction from complex technical workflows, a philosophy rooted in his upbringing on a family farm in rural Oregon, where he learned to build things with his hands before he ever touched a computer. Outside of Pelotech, he serves as Co-founder and CTO of TOOLTRIBE and is an active open-source contributor on GitHub.

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FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

What types of infrastructure does Pelotech modernize?  

Cloud modernization spans four core areas: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data platform modernization, and security and compliance modernization. Pelotech delivers across all four, from Kubernetes-native architecture redesign and application refactoring to deployment automation, compliance hardening, and database migration to modern platforms.

How long does a typical cloud modernization engagement take? 

Months, not years. STEM Learning's full on-prem to cloud-native migration was completed in three months. Timelines depend on scope, but senior engineers working at the architecture level move faster than large teams layered with project management.


Do your engineers work alongside our team or deliver independently?

We use an embedded model, which means your engineers participate from day one. Knowledge transfer is built into the engagement, not bolted on at the end.


How is Pelotech different from a traditional consulting firm?

Traditional consulting firms produce assessments, while Pelotech engineers build. There are no lengthy discovery phases that end with a document. Pelotech's team writes the Terraform, configures the clusters, deploys to production, and works alongside your engineers throughout. The deliverable is working, production-grade infrastructure, not a set of recommendations.

What does a cloud modernization assessment involve?

A focused conversation about your current architecture, where the biggest pain points are, and where modernization will have the most measurable impact. Pelotech scopes the engagement based on what will move the needle fastest, not what generates the largest statement of work.


Can Pelotech help if we've already started modernizing but stalled?

Yes. Our most common starting points include half-migrated architectures, an internal team that's stretched too thin to finish, or a previous vendor's work that didn't hold up. Pelotech picks up stalled modernization efforts, assesses what's salvageable, and gets the project to completion.