Our Leadership

Kristopher Landon

Kristopher Landon

Founder & Principal Consultant

Kristopher Landon is a distinguished consultant and thought leader dedicated to operationalizing resilience in modern, cloud-centric organizations. His expertise centers on transforming abstract concepts like Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) into practical, automated, and validated processes. He emphasizes that true disaster readiness is achieved not by merely having backups, but by a rigorous discipline of validated restore testing, thoughtful multi-region architecture design, and the quarterly practice of comprehensive, version-controlled runbooks.

With a focus on cloud architecture and incident readiness, Kristopher provides clients with a clear, actionable path to robust business continuity. He helps organizations navigate the critical trade-offs between cost-efficiency (Active/Passive) and high-performance requirements (Active/Active), ensuring that the chosen strategy aligns perfectly with the client's recovery objectives. His approach is built on the belief that preparation, documentation, and frequent drills are the ultimate differentiators that separate prepared organizations from those caught off-guard during a critical incident.

Highlights

  • Strategic Cloud Resilience: Guided clients in selecting and implementing optimal multi-region architectures (Active/Passive vs. Active/Active) based on strategic cost and performance objectives.
  • Automated DR Program Development: Engineered fully automated, repeatable disaster recovery programs leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps for zero-touch failover execution.
  • Governance in Recovery: Established rigorous governance models for recovery testing, validating that all backups translate into guaranteed, successful application and data restoration.
  • Operationalizing Business Metrics: Translated high-level business Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) targets into actionable, auditable technical implementation plans.
  • Incident Leadership & Documentation: Created and deployed highly detailed, version-controlled runbooks and incident declaration protocols, ensuring calm, effective, and compliant crisis response.
  • Readiness Assessment & Improvement: Implemented continuous readiness programs utilizing a scorecard approach across architecture, operations, and observability to drive measurable improvements in resilience posture.
  • Architectural Risk Reduction: Advised leadership teams on cloud architecture design decisions specifically focused on minimizing complexity and reducing systemic risk during regional outages.