# Cristian Calabro, Engineering & AI Advisor

## About Cristian Calabro
Cristian Calabro is an Engineering & AI Advisor based in Mendoza, Argentina. He has 15+ years in software engineering, engineering management, platform engineering and cloud infrastructure. He works with founders of early-stage startups with teams of roughly 3 to 30 developers, and works in US and EU hours. ccalabro.dev is his personal advisory site.

Cristian Calabro advises founders of early-stage software startups on engineering, product foundations, team practices and AI use. His work is documented and handed over so each team owns its decisions and next steps.

## Foundations Review
A fixed-price technical audit and engineering health check for early-stage startups. It reviews technology, how the team works and how it uses AI. The two-week review includes written decisions, a 30/60/90-day plan, a handover and two weeks of async questions.
- Standard price: $4,000 USD.
- Founding-client rate: $3,000 USD in exchange for a testimonial and case study.
- The Lite Review is $1,800 USD and covers one product, up to two repositories and two interviews, with a shorter report, a 30/60/90-day plan, a 45-minute walkthrough and one week of async questions.
- Payment: 50% to start and 50% at handover.
- Read-only access is needed to code, cloud and tools; about six hours of founder and team time across two weeks. An NDA is available.
- This is not a penetration test or a line-by-line code audit. Code is not changed during the review.

## Technical due diligence
For investors and acquirers considering a software company.
- Red-flag review: $1,500 USD, a quick read of the biggest technical risks before commitment.
- Full review: $2,500 USD, with ratings by area, red flags and costs to address them, and a pre-close and first-100-days plan.
- Every review ends with a clear verdict: proceed, proceed with conditions, or don't proceed.
- Cristian has no stake in the company being reviewed and does not take on build work for it during the deal.

## How it works
1. Understand the company and its constraints.
2. Review technology, team practices and AI use with the people building the product.
3. Hand over documented decisions and a plan so the team owns them.
4. Keep working together afterward if it makes sense.

## Booking
Book a 20-minute chat: https://calendar.app.google/ZoB7dR4TKBpHXnZLA
Website: https://www.ccalabro.dev/

## Pages
- Sample Foundations Review: https://www.ccalabro.dev/sample-report
- Technical due diligence: https://www.ccalabro.dev/due-diligence
- Sample Foundations Review PDF: https://www.ccalabro.dev/sample-foundations-review.pdf
- Sample technical due diligence PDF: https://www.ccalabro.dev/sample-technical-due-diligence.pdf
- AI workflow automation: https://www.ccalabro.dev/projects/ai-workflow-automation-engineering-team
- Migration to Amazon EKS: https://www.ccalabro.dev/projects/migration-to-amazon-eks
- DevOps pipeline: https://www.ccalabro.dev/projects/devops-pipeline
- Higher education data pipeline: https://www.ccalabro.dev/projects/data-pipeline-higher-education
- Cloud cost optimization: https://www.ccalabro.dev/projects/cost-optimization
- Spanish home page: https://www.ccalabro.dev/es