Overview
Platform Engineering is about building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) that provide self-service infrastructure, standardized workflows, and golden paths for your development teams. We help you create platforms that reduce cognitive load, improve developer experience, and accelerate delivery.
The challenge
Modern engineering teams face:
- Context switching between applications and infrastructure
- Inconsistent environments across dev, staging, and production
- Manual toil in provisioning infrastructure
- Lack of standardization in deployment practices
- Slow onboarding for new team members
- Security and compliance gaps in ad-hoc setups
Our approach
We design and build Internal Developer Platforms that:
1. Self-service infrastructure
- Service catalogs with pre-approved templates
- One-click provisioning of databases, queues, caches
- Automated environment creation for feature branches
- Infrastructure abstractions hiding complexity
2. Golden paths
- Standardized project templates with best practices baked in
- Pre-configured CI/CD pipelines for common tech stacks
- Deployment workflows that just work
- Documentation and runbooks for common scenarios
3. Developer experience
- CLI tools for common operations
- Web portals for infrastructure visibility
- Slack/Teams integrations for notifications
- Observability dashboards out of the box
4. Governance & security
- Policy as Code enforcement at platform level
- RBAC and SSO integration
- Automated security scanning in pipelines
- Cost allocation and budgets per team
Technology stack
We build platforms using:
- Backstage: Open-source developer portal framework
- Kubernetes Operators: Custom resource definitions for your services
- Crossplane: Infrastructure as Kubernetes resources
- ArgoCD: GitOps-based deployment automation
- Terraform: Multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning
- HashiCorp Vault: Secrets management
- Port/Cortex: Developer portals and service catalogs
What you get
Platform capabilities
- Self-service infrastructure provisioning
- Standardized deployment pipelines
- Service catalog with templates
- Environment management automation
- Observability and monitoring setup
Documentation & training
- Platform user guides and runbooks
- Architecture decision records (ADRs)
- Onboarding materials for new developers
- Operational procedures for platform team
Knowledge transfer
- Workshops on platform concepts
- Hands-on training for platform team
- Best practices for maintaining platforms
- Office hours during rollout
Ideal for
- Scale-ups moving from startup chaos to structured engineering
- Enterprises standardizing across multiple teams
- High-growth companies scaling engineering rapidly
- Organizations with complex compliance requirements
Deliverables
- Internal Developer Platform (IDP) deployed on your infrastructure
- Service catalog with 5-10 common templates
- Self-service portals (CLI + Web)
- CI/CD pipeline templates
- Documentation and training materials
- 30-60 days of post-launch support
Pricing
Platform Engineering engagements typically range from $75,000 - $200,000 depending on complexity and scope. We offer both:
- Fixed-price packages for standard platform builds
- Time & materials for custom platform development
Timeline
Typical engagement: 3-6 months
- Discovery & Design: 2-4 weeks
- MVP Build: 6-8 weeks
- Pilot with 1-2 Teams: 2-4 weeks
- Rollout & Training: 4-8 weeks
- Post-Launch Support: 30-60 days
Case study
“BugaOps built our Internal Developer Platform in 4 months. We went from 2-week lead times for new services to under 2 hours. Our developers love it.”
VP Engineering, Series B SaaS Company