About Chris Baumbauer and Atelier Solutions

I started out in the early 2000s as a System Administrator, and then became a developer working across the entire stack from operating system development to middleware, and websites.

My travels took me towards the cloud with comprehensive experience across all of the major providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud, as well as a few infrastructure specific clouds such as Digital Ocean, Exoscale, and on-prem solutions such as vSphere using Kubernetes. Unlike my competitors, this diversity allows me to give you an honest assessment tailored to your needs and desires, and not a specific vendor.

Lately, I've been helping companies by taking on a more architect role helping with their migrations between not just vendors, but also helping them handle the migration of recently acquired companies.

I provide the skills of an architect combined with being a fellow business owner to help qualify what's where when it comes to ensuring a successful merger, acquisition, or divesture for your organization. Additionally, I can povide an unbiased analysis and migration path that is specific to your needs allowing you to move forward.

Atelier Solutions was founded in 2019 to help organizations such as yours handle tricky integrations, and there is nothing more tricky than going through an M&A activity.

We believe in making technology work for your company, and seriously believe it can make the difference between whether a merger or acquisition is successful or not.

At the end of the day, your success is our success, and that is what matters.

You are someone who is one of:

• A CEO participating in their first M&A activity, or looking to assess their current state before divesting their business
• A VC or in PE looking to assess the state of a potential purchase to evaluate the level of risk a target company could have after a deal is closed
• A CIO who needs help assessing the playing field to get a handle of the scope and work required to ensure a successful integration

You are not someone who:

• has a team dedicated to assess and integrate companies for breakfast
• is relying solely on the financials of a transaction
• believes that IT doesn't matter or is a core part of their business