Skr8tr exists because web developers deserve an orchestrator that thinks the way they do — not one designed for a team of platform engineers with 600 MB to spare. Here is our mission, our story, and the values we will not compromise.
Web development teams ship products. They build features, fix bugs, and iterate fast. Kubernetes repays that work by demanding a dedicated platform engineer, 200-line YAML manifests, Helm charts, etcd consensus, a container runtime, and a 600 MB control plane — before a single workload runs.
Skr8tr exists to end that tax.
Our mission is to give web development teams the power of production-grade microservice orchestration without the complexity of Kubernetes. A 5 MB control plane. Human-readable deployments. Post-quantum signed commands. Built-in HTTP/2 ingress. Compliance by design. Running on GCP right now.
We believe the platform should work for the developer — not the other way around. One signed command deploys your service across your entire fleet, registers it in the service registry, and puts it behind the ingress in under two seconds. No YAML. No CRDs. No Helm. No container runtime. No platform engineer required.
We are committed to every team we deploy for. We design the cluster, configure the signing keys, wire up RBAC and SSO, and hand you the keys to a running, production-ready platform. Our goal is not to hand you a product and disappear — it is to make your team faster, safer, and more capable than it was before.
Scott Baker's relationship with computing started in the 1980s — Haverford Preparatory School, a Mac SE/30, and HyperCard. That early instinct for building interactive systems never left.
His web infrastructure career began in 2012 at Endurance International Group (now Newfold Digital) — Linux servers, VPS environments, and high-traffic web hosting at scale. That foundation gave him a deep, practical understanding of what web teams actually need: fast deploys, reliable infrastructure, and systems that stay out of the way.
When Kubernetes became the de facto standard for microservice deployment, Scott watched web development teams spend enormous time and money fighting a platform designed for hyperscale Google infrastructure — not for the team of five shipping a SaaS product. The cognitive overhead alone was staggering. The premise behind Skr8tr formed from that observation: what if there was an orchestrator that thought the way web developers think?
Since late 2022, long-term disability has ended Scott's ability to work onsite. Rather than stepping back from engineering, he stepped all the way in. With nothing but time and the discipline to use it, he has spent those years in full-time technical immersion — mastering C23, Rust, post-quantum cryptography, distributed systems, HTTP/2, and production orchestration from first principles.
The result is Skr8tr — a platform that could only be built by someone who understood what web developers actually suffer through, had the time to own every layer, and had the discipline to build it right. No Docker. No YAML. No Kubernetes. No platform engineer required. Just a system that deploys your services, keeps them running, and signs every command with post-quantum cryptography.
Every design decision is made from the perspective of a web developer shipping a product — not a platform engineer maintaining Google-scale infrastructure. Simple wins over powerful. Human-readable beats configuration-as-code.
Your infrastructure, your billing account, your data. Skr8tr deploys on GCP compute you own and control. We configure it, hand you the keys, and step back. Zero lock-in. You can audit, inspect, and hand off at any time.
Post-quantum signed commands from day one — not an add-on. ML-DSA-65 signatures on every deploy, every rollout, every mutating operation. HIPAA / PCI DSS compliance posture built into the platform, not bolted on afterward.
5 MB control plane. Three binaries. No container runtime, no etcd, no Helm, no YAML manifests. The fewer moving parts, the fewer things that fail. Every abstraction we add earns its place.
We own every layer — the mesh protocol, the HTTP/2 ingress, the audit chain, the PQC signing infrastructure. No wrappers, no SaaS dependencies, no black boxes. You get the engineer who built it.
We stand behind every deployment. Fully available, fully accountable. You get the engineer who built the platform — not a support queue. We are here for the long run.