As a software engineer himself, Cory O’Daniel has seen the myriad of issues that can arise when a growing company doesn’t have the development operations or cloud operations team needed as it scales up. Now the chief executive and co-founder of Pasadena-based Massdriver Inc., O’Daniel has helped create a platform on which companies can quickly deploy secure, compliant cloud infrastructure to save expensive engineering time and reduce the burden on software engineers.

Massdriver, which took on its first client in January of last year, is moving towards targeting later-stage companies with fresh capital from an $8 million seed funding round that closed in August. The company provides a cloud-operations platform that takes care of crucial but less user-facing systems and reduces the burden of infrastructure configuration on engineers. Developers can quickly design and deploy cloud infrastructure including managed databases and serverless computing.

“Everybody moving to the cloud is fighting over these very few operations engineers (with) this deeper cloud experience,” O’Daniel said. 

O’Daniel and his co-founders, David Williams and Chris Hill, are particularly devoted to open-source data and have been involved with OpenTF, which is an effort in the coding community to open-source software tool Terraform on its original license. Massdriver keeps a substantial portion of the coding for its infrastructure models open on GitHub Inc. Williams and Hill have stayed on at Massdriver as chief technology officer and chief operating officer, respectively.

Massdriver offers a free subscription option, with paid plans starting at $1,200 per month, as well as enterprise options.