Technology · 2024
An internal platform that 4x'd deployment frequency
Golden paths and self-service infrastructure that turned weeks of setup into hours across 900 engineers.
A Series D technology scale-up — Technology · 900 engineers
Client
A Series D technology scale-upTechnology · 900 engineers
Technology stack
ROI
Equivalent to 60 engineer-years reclaimed annually.
Client overview
A Series D scale-up's engineering velocity was capped by manual provisioning and duplicated effort across teams. Setup for a new service took weeks.
Business challenge
Build an internal developer platform that 900 engineers would actually adopt, without creating a bottleneck team or slowing autonomy.
Approach
We built paved-road templates, self-service provisioning, and a golden-path catalog, governed by a thin platform team. Adoption was voluntary and metric-driven, with feedback loops into the roadmap.
Business impact
Engineering velocity scaled with headcount, incidents fell, and the platform team stayed small. Developer satisfaction rose measurably in internal surveys.