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Platform Engineering

Standardize your golden paths. Eliminate cognitive load. Ship faster.

Kill the
Context Switch.

"Engineers should focus on business logic, not Kubernetes manifests. We build the pavement so they can drive the car."

The Service Catalog
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Developer Portal

A unified "Backstage" interface to scaffold services, view docs, and manage resources.

Catalog
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auth-service
Java • v2.1.0
Healthy
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payment-api
Go • v1.4.2
Healthy
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web-frontend
React • v3.0.1
Building

DORA Metrics

Elite Performance

On-Demand
Deployment Freq
< 1 Hour
Lead Time
scaffold new service
? Name: billing-api
? Template: go-microservice
? Repo: github.com/org/billing-api
✓ Created successfully
Deploying to staging...

CLI First

For power users.

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Policy
Guards

OPA rules prevent insecure deployments before they happen.

01

Define Gold Paths

We audit your existing "happy paths" and codify them into repeatable templates using Helm and Terraform.

02

Deploy IDP

We stand up Backstage (or Port) connected to your Github, ArgoCD, and Cloud Provider.

03

Onboard Teams

We run "Game Days" to train your squads on self-service provisioning, monitoring, and debugging.

40%
Engineering Waste
72h
Onboarding Time
High
Risk Factor

Powered by Modern Standards

Kubernetes
ArgoCD
Backstage
Terraform
Ansible
Who This Is For

Engineering Teams Drowning in Complexity

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Multi-Team Engineering Organizations

Managing 5+ development teams with inconsistent tooling, deployment processes, and infrastructure patterns.

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High-Growth Startups Scaling Fast

Experiencing engineer onboarding bottlenecks and productivity drops as team size doubles.

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Product Teams Needing Velocity

Frustrated by 72-hour wait times for infrastructure requests and manual deployment procedures.

Problem We Solve

Cognitive Load Crushing Developer Productivity

"Our engineers spend more time configuring YAML and debugging deployments than writing business logic. New hires take 3 weeks just to ship their first feature."

— VP Engineering, Series B SaaS
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Tribal knowledge locked in senior engineers' heads, no standardized best practices

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Context switching between 10+ different tools just to deploy a simple service

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No self-service forcing devs to wait days for ops tickets to provision infrastructure

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Production incidents from manual configurations and inconsistent deployment patterns

What You Get

A Fully Operational Developer Platform

Production-grade IDP, not a proof-of-concept.

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Backstage Developer Portal

Customized Backstage instance with service catalog, scaffolding templates, and API documentation auto-generated from OpenAPI specs.

✓ Branded & Deployed
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Golden Path Templates

Pre-configured scaffolding for Go/Python/Node microservices with built-in CI/CD, monitoring, and security policies.

✓ Ready to Clone
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GitOps Workflow

ArgoCD configured with automated sync, health checks, and progressive rollouts. Git as single source of truth.

✓ Automated Deployments
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CLI Tools & SDKs

Custom CLI for scaffolding, deployment, and troubleshooting. Integrates with existing developer workflows.

✓ npm/pip Installable
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Policy as Code

Open Policy Agent (OPA) rules enforcing security standards, resource quotas, and namespace isolation.

✓ Automated Enforcement
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Documentation & Training

Developer guides, troubleshooting runbooks, and "game day" workshops for hands-on team enablement.

✓ Self-Service Docs
Measurable Outcomes

Quantifiable Impact on Team Velocity

Real data from engineering teams using platform engineering practices.

40%
Reduced Toil

Time saved on repetitive infra tasks and ticket-driven provisioning

72h
Onboarding Time

New engineer to first production deploy (vs 2+ weeks before)

10X
Deploy Frequency

From weekly releases to on-demand deployments

85%
Self-Service Adoption

Engineers provisioning own resources without ops tickets

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DORA Metrics Improvement

  • check_circleDeployment frequency: From monthly to on-demand (multiple times per day)
  • check_circleLead time for changes: From 2 weeks to under 1 hour
  • check_circleMean time to recovery: From 4 hours to under 30 minutes with automated rollbacks
  • check_circleChange failure rate: Reduced by 60% with pre-flight policy checks
How We Work

Typical Engagement Model

Build-Operate-Transfer approach with your team embedded throughout.

Phase 1 • Weeks 1-3

Discovery & Design

  • Developer workflow audit
  • Pain point mapping sessions
  • Golden path template design
Deliverable

Platform architecture blueprint

Phase 2 • Weeks 4-10

Build & Integrate

  • Backstage portal deployment
  • Golden path template creation
  • GitOps/ArgoCD setup
  • Pilot team onboarding
Deliverable

Production IDP with first services

Phase 3 • Weeks 11-12

Scale & Transfer

  • Company-wide rollout
  • Game day workshops
  • Platform team training
Deliverable

Self-sufficient platform team

Ready to ship
10x faster?

Book a 30-minute discovery call platform architects.

Start Transformation