Ken Barlow
I'm Co-founder and CTO at Allset, shipping production AI. I've been writing code professionally since 2004, including a decade as Principal Engineer at a private SaaS where I cut millions from the annual cloud bill.
My focus is production AI architecture: AI infrastructure, multi-tenant patterns, production hardening, cloud cost optimization. I write about it, build open-source tools for it, and consult on it.
Work With Me
On the side, I take a small number of fractional CTO engagements with seed and Series A AI startups. If you're shipping production AI and need senior judgment in the room, you can find more information here.
Writing
- 07 May, 2026Seven AWS levers that cut $1.5M from a production SaaS bill
- 06 May, 2026Welcome
Notes
- 07 May, 2026AWS Enterprise Discount Program — what most engineers don't know
- 07 May, 2026Bedrock prompt caching — when it pays back
- 07 May, 2026NAT Gateway data processing — the silent line item
- 06 May, 2026What lives here
Follow / Contact
The best way to follow my work is on X (Twitter). For DMs and longer conversation, X or LinkedIn both work.
- X: @knbrlo
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/knbrlo
- GitHub: github.com/knbrlo
- YouTube: @knbrlo