Cloud, Kubernetes and AI-agent engineering for B2B SaaS teams that cannot afford downtime.
URN Labs is the consulting studio of Usman Ramzan, a working CTO in Lahore with a track record in multi-cloud Kubernetes, security readiness and AI in production.
Track record
~50 s
tenant provisioning, down from 8–10 minutes
$15–20K
a month cut from cloud spend in an AWS to OCI move
~40
apps migrated across clouds with zero downtime
Results from Usman's current and past roles. Client names stay private; each figure links to its case study.
Fractional CTO
A CTO's judgment, without the full-time hire.
Senior technical ownership before you hire a full-time CTO: architecture and roadmap review, build-versus-buy decisions, security posture, and priorities your team can execute.
- architecture and roadmap review
- build versus buy
- security and compliance readiness
- board reporting
DevOps & Platform Engineering
Multi-cloud Kubernetes that stays boring.
Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability and practical cost controls on EKS, OKE and GKE with Terraform. Workloads move between clouds without downtime.
- EKS, OKE, GKE
- Terraform IaC
- CI/CD and observability
- zero-downtime migration
AI-Agent Engineering
AI agents that survive contact with production.
Assistants and agents that do useful work within clear boundaries: workflow design, retrieval, tool integration, evaluation, and approval gates around consequential actions. Runs on Azure OpenAI or self-hosted vLLM.
- workflow design and retrieval
- tool permissions and approvals
- evaluation before release
- Azure OpenAI and vLLM
How we work
A senior engineer does the work. No handoffs, no layers between you and the person writing the code.
Delivery has run under SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI DSS constraints, and Usman earned the CKAD in Sep 2024. Engagements start with the systems you already run, not a greenfield re-architecture.
Also in the toolkit
- Terraform and Pulumi
- Kamaji hosted control planes
- Istio and Envoy
- Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra
- GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
- Prometheus and Grafana
- Azure OpenAI and vLLM
- SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS
From the lab
We build microSaaS tools and Android apps from the same infrastructure playbook. First releases are in development; write to hello@urnlabs.com to hear when they ship.
Who does the work
Usman Ramzan, CTO and fractional technical lead.
Before his current CTO role: nearly four years running multi-cloud messaging infrastructure at Unifonic, and cloud and compliance work at Emumba. Case studies, writing and experience live on his site.
Work with us
hello@urnlabs.comLahore, Pakistan · working remotely