About Joscor

Joscor is the independent consulting practice of Joshua Cornutt – cloud architect, OpenStack contributor, and founder of Open Edge Cloud. Founded in 2013, Joscor has worked with SaaS companies, enterprises, and public sector teams on the hard parts of building and running cloud infrastructure.

What I actually do

Most consulting engagements are one of these shapes:

• Architecture review – a deep look at an existing platform with a written report: what’s going to break first, what to fix now, what to leave alone.
• Platform build – standing up or rebuilding OpenStack, OpenShift, or Kubernetes infrastructure for production workloads, with the automation and runbooks to keep it healthy.
• SaaS scale-up – taking an MVP or early-stage SaaS and preparing it for enterprise customers: multi-tenancy, SSO, observability, compliance posture, cost control.
• AI-native operations – integrating agentic tooling (Claude, custom MCP servers, automated incident response) into real SaaS ops so teams can ship faster without hiring more ops engineers.
• Fractional cloud architect – ongoing retainer arrangements for teams that need senior architecture judgment without a full-time hire.

Open Edge Cloud

In 2024 I founded Open Edge Cloud to solve a problem I kept seeing on consulting engagements: enterprises wanted the economics of OpenStack without the operational burden, and wanted US-based, FIPS-validated infrastructure without the hyperscaler contract terms. Open Edge is a managed OpenStack cloud running in Iron Mountain VA-1, with a second region coming online in 2026. Joscor consulting engagements often pair with Open Edge infrastructure, but neither requires the other.

Background

Joshua’s work spans cloud architecture, software engineering, and information security. Contributions to the OpenStack project (Barbican, Kolla), production deployments across Red Hat, Canonical, and custom stacks, and a long history of security-first consulting. Open source contributions, blog posts going back to 2013, and a habit of writing about the things most consultants don’t want to admit are hard.