Reimagining cloud infrastructure: How Wack’s product MultiTool bridges the developer-DevOps divide

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Cloud computing is eating the world faster than you realize. This year, companies are estimated to spend $679 billion on cloud infrastructure (up 20% from 2023), and annual spending is expected to climb to $2.3T by 2032 Despite watershed adoption, companies struggle to bridge the gap between development and operations. StackOverflow’s 2024 industry survey reveals that 33% of engineers report that software deployments are the most frustrating part of their job. 

From our experience as practitioners and through conversations with dozens of other DevOps professionals, it's clear that this frustration stems from responsibility fragmentation between app developers and DevOps specialists. App developers write the code, but DevOps specialists monitor the running programs, leading to split context and a game of “Telephone” when the running programs start to crash. This fragmentation results in slow incident response times and widespread frustration across engineering teams. Existing infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Pulumi, while powerful, often exacerbate fragmentation within engineering teams, since they usually are controlled exclusively by the operations specialists.

Wack’s product MultiTool carves out infrastructure zones that app teams can control while ops teams can work independently around those zones. MultiTool is a command-line interface (CLI) that empowers app developers to self-serve infrastructure changes within their domain of expertise. This approach allows infrastructure to become ancillary to application code, allowing developers to focus on their core work.

With MultiTool, developers can rapidly deploy applications on AWS, Azure, GCP, or any cloud provider of their choice. MultiTool also facilitates seamless cloud migrations, moving deployments from one provider to another without downtime. This innovation promises to save developers thousands of hours regularly spent on tedious migrations.

Wack’s team is composed of startup veterans. CEO Robbie McKinstry was an early employee and research scientist at industry leader HashiCorp. CTO Eric Ghildyal, a former AlphaLab alum whose company Root Health was acquired by Elligo Health. Both Robbie McKinstry and lead Product Designer Anita Trimbur worked at infrastructure-as-code leader Pulumi, as well.

Wack is raising a $2 Million pre-seed round via SAFE notes and is seeking design partners who want to improve their DevOps process. If you’d like to connect with Wack, you can email contact@wack.run. To keep up with MultiTool, check out https://multitool.run or follow Wack on LinkedIn.

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