Platform Engineering

DevOps & Automation

Opinionated CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, testing, and release automation—wrapped as a paved road developers actually want to use, with security and compliance built-in instead of bolted on.

Golden paths CI/CD design Policy-as-code GitOps DORA metrics

Executive Summary

From “every team has a different pipeline” to a platform people trust.

We help you replace fragile, one-off pipelines with opinionated golden paths that accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and satisfy security—without adding friction for developers.

Without a paved road
  • • 15–30 bespoke pipelines, each slightly different.
  • • Security added late or inconsistently.
  • • Changes to tooling require broad coordination.
With DevOps as a product
  • • 2–4 supported patterns with docs and examples.
  • • Guardrails built into templates and policies.
  • • DORA metrics and audit trails from day one.

Why developers ignore DevOps initiatives

Tools are rarely the blocker. Most organizations already have Git, CI, artifact storage, and environments. The friction comes from every team having to reinvent how to glue them together, while compliance and security add their own checklists on top.

When “doing the right thing” takes more time than copying yesterday’s script, teams will choose speed over standardization. Our goal is to make the paved road the easiest, fastest choice for 80% of teams.

Our approach

1) Map the real delivery experience

  • Shadow 2–3 representative teams from ticket to production deployment.
  • Identify manual approvals, brittle scripts, and high-friction steps.
  • Align leadership on target DORA metrics and risk appetite.

2) Design the golden paths

  • Define a small set of pipeline archetypes (service, batch, frontend, data).
  • Codify standards: branches, artifacts, test stages, and quality gates.
  • Specify which checks are mandatory vs. opt-in, and for which risk levels.

3) Implement and onboard the first teams

  • Build reusable pipeline templates and workflows in your chosen CI/CD stack.
  • Integrate secrets, scanning, approvals, and deployment strategies.
  • Co-deliver the first migrations so teams experience the benefits quickly.

4) Measure and iterate with DORA as the compass

  • Instrument lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, and change fail rate per team.
  • Feed those metrics into platform roadmap and executive reporting.
  • Use metrics to prioritize improvements—not just add new tools.

Key benefits

  • Fewer bespoke pipelines and less operational toil.
  • Faster, safer releases thanks to structured quality gates and rollbacks.
  • Compliance by default through policy-as-code and audit trails.
  • Clear platform ROI visible in improved DORA metrics.

How we typically engage

  • Discovery & DX review (2–3 weeks): pipeline inventory, developer interviews, metric baseline.
  • Paved road MVP (6–10 weeks): one or two golden paths implemented with 1–3 teams.
  • Adoption & enablement: templates, docs, workshops, and an internal platform backlog.