Platform Engineering Services
We pioneered Platform as a Product at Pivotal. Our Launch, Scale, Manage, and Assess framework gives your platform team a proven path from first app in prod to enterprise-wide adoption.
Our Team's Credentials
Pivotal Labs Heritage
Creators of the original Platform Services team (2013)
CKA/CKAD Certified
Our consultants are certified with deep CNCF expertise
Multi-Cloud Partnerships
Decades of experience across AWS, GCP, Azure, and vSphere. AWS Select Partner, Google Cloud Partner, Broadcom Expert Advantage Partner.
Our Team's Impact
2 Hours
Typical time to onboard existing applications
1:500
Demonstrated Platform Engineer to Developer Ratio
48 Hours
Demonstrated time to patch security vulnerabilities
15 Minutes
Demonstrated time for app code changes to be deployed
How We Can Help
Platform engineering services that transform your Kubernetes-based infrastructure into a platform product.
From strategy and activation through scaling, operations, and continuous improvement, we bring the expertise and product mindset to build platforms that developers love.
Your Platform Engineering Journey
Launch Your Platform
Prove it works: steel thread to production, enable the team
Platform Strategy & Discovery
Discovery workshop, technology evaluation, first-adopter identification, and steel-thread planning to align your platform initiative with business outcomes.
- Platform vision and roadmap workshop
- Technology landscape evaluation and selection
- First-adopter team identification and steel-thread planning
Best For
- ▸ Organizations starting a platform initiative
- ▸ Teams needing alignment on platform direction
Platform Activation
MVP platform delivery: the steel thread to production with a real app on real infrastructure, proving production capability end to end.
- End-to-end steel thread from commit to production
- Core infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipeline
- First workload onboarded with golden path established
Best For
- ▸ Teams proving platform viability to stakeholders
- ▸ Organizations moving from concept to production
Training
Platform as a Product mindset, Kubernetes and cloud-native operations, and hands-on labs with real production scenarios.
- Platform-as-a-Product mindset and practices
- Kubernetes fundamentals through advanced operations (CKA/CKAD)
- Hands-on labs with real production scenarios
Best For
- ▸ Platform team skill development
- ▸ Organizations building platform engineering culture
Scale Your Platform
Find platform-market fit: self-service, onboarding, enterprise adoption
Platform Development
Ongoing capability expansion beyond MVP: golden paths, self-service templates, additional workload patterns, and custom CRDs and abstractions that lower cognitive burden for platform users.
- Golden path templates and self-service provisioning
- Custom CRDs via Kratix or Crossplane Compositions that simplify developer workflows
- GitOps-based continuous delivery with Argo CD or Flux
Best For
- ▸ Platform teams expanding beyond initial MVP
- ▸ Organizations scaling to early majority adoption
Developer Portal
Internal developer portal deployment or custom development, with service catalog, self-service provisioning, and internal branding that makes your platform feel like a product.
- Portal deployment or custom development (Backstage, Port, Cortex, VCF Automation)
- Service catalog with self-service provisioning
- Custom portal development and internal branding
Best For
- ▸ Improving developer experience at scale
- ▸ Reducing cognitive load and context switching
Workload Migration
Not lift-and-shift. We modernize workloads during migration: improving deployment patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and 12-factor compliance as teams move onto your platform.
- Portfolio analysis and affinity-based migration planning
- Iterative batch migration and replatforming
- Adoption metrics and incentive design
Best For
- ▸ Organizations migrating workloads at scale
- ▸ Teams driving platform adoption across business units
Manage Your Platform
Operate reliably at scale and demonstrate the platform's leverage to the business
SRE Services
SLO/SLI definition, incident response, upgrade planning, and toil reduction to operate your platform reliably and demonstrate leverage.
- SLO/SLI definition and observability setup
- Incident response runbooks and upgrade planning
- Toil identification and automation
Best For
- ▸ Platform teams transitioning from build to operate
- ▸ Organizations needing reliability at scale
Resident Platform Engineers
Embedded engineers, architects, and PMs who transfer knowledge through pairing while driving your platform roadmap forward.
- Embedded engineers and architects alongside your team
- Knowledge transfer through daily pairing
- Platform roadmap planning and execution
Best For
- ▸ Teams needing sustained platform expertise
- ▸ Organizations building long-term platform capability
Assess Your Platform
Continuous improvement: unbiased evaluation, prioritized roadmap
Health Check
10-dimension maturity assessment, developer experience friction analysis, and a prioritized roadmap to continuously improve your platform.
- Platform maturity scoring across 10 key dimensions
- Developer friction analysis with time-to-value measurements
- Prioritized improvement roadmap with quick wins identified
Best For
- ▸ Teams seeking platform optimization
- ▸ Organizations identifying improvement opportunities
Consulting & Advisory
Architecture reviews, platform-as-a-product coaching, and organizational design guidance to keep your platform evolving.
- Platform architecture reviews and recommendations
- Platform-as-a-product coaching and org design guidance
- Technology selection and vendor evaluation
Best For
- ▸ Platform strategy and roadmap refinement
- ▸ Organizations needing specialized expertise
Platform Engineering Case Studies
Platform Engineering - Modernizing and Migrating a 20,000-CPU Mission System with Kubernetes
We helped a U.S. national security organization modernize a 20,000-CPU mission system by migrating to Kubernetes using the strangler pattern. Through platform engineering, developer enablement, and observability, we reduced compute by ~50%, cut deployment windows from 4-5 hours to ~15 seconds, shrunk build cycles from ~10 hours to ~30 minutes, and enabled 15-20 minute environment provisioning, all within a secure, air-gapped environment.
Federal Platform Transformation: From Firefighting to Automation
A federal systems integrator inherited a Tanzu Application Service platform with an inexperienced team lacking training, methodology, and effective management capabilities. Their environment was unstable, inconsistent, and dependent on manual UI operations across multiple classification levels. Over three years, we transformed their operation from reactive firefighting to proactive automation-enabling same-day application deployments, weekend major upgrades, and fully automated patching. The entire team cycled out once during our engagement, yet each generation went from complete beginners to confident platform operators.
Platform Engineering - Scaling Kubernetes for Multi-Client Mainframe Modernization with Zero-Trust Architecture
We helped a $100M+ mainframe modernization startup transform their platform architecture from Google Cloud-only hosting to a cross-cloud solution. By implementing zero-trust access with Teleport, Cloud Development Environments with Coder, and GitOps with Argo CD, we enabled them to deploy their platform directly into client environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) while ensuring secure IP protection and automated platform bootstrapping.
Platform Engineering at Scale - Leveraging Kubernetes to enable Self-Service, Observability & Enterprise Readiness
We helped a $1B+ business services provider scale their Kubernetes platform from initial deployment to enterprise readiness. Through Platform-as-a-Product consulting, GitOps automation, distributed monitoring, and team upskilling, we enabled automatic cluster deployment in minutes and multiple builds per hour with minimal friction, serving 25 applications across 10 clusters.
Platform Engineering - Leveraging Tanzu Platform to provide a platform to run mission-critical apps
We helped the U.S. Department of Defense transform from reactive firefighting to proactive platform engineering. By implementing Tanzu Platform (Cloud Foundry) with infrastructure as code, hub-and-spoke architecture, and automated deployments, we enabled 10,000+ users and 250 applications to run with 99.95%+ uptime across 13 global platforms, with critical security patches applied in under 48 hours and 30-minute recovery times.
Platform Engineering Services FAQ
You've only been around since 2024. Why should I believe that you can help us with our platform?
That’s a fair question. Here’s why:
- We built the Pivotal Labs platform service team
- We pioneered platform engineering as a discipline
- 100s of engagements completed while at Pivotal, VMware, Broadcom, and MomentumAI
- Over 20 former Broadcom/VMware/Pivotal staff
Check out our About page for more detail.
How do you measure platform success?
- We focus on measurable outcomes: developer productivity metrics (DORA), platform adoption rates, time-to-production for new services, incident resolution time, and cost efficiency. Success means your developers love using the platform and your business sees measurable value.
How is your approach different from other platform engineering consultancies?
- We pioneered the Platform as a Product approach at Pivotal Labs in 2013. Our Launch, Scale, Manage, and Assess framework gives every engagement a clear trajectory, from first app in prod to enterprise-wide adoption. Our team has delivered 100s of platforms for Fortune 500 companies, and our consultants are CKA/CKAD certified with deep CNCF expertise.
How does Platform Engineering relate to your Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry services?
- Platform Engineering is the overarching discipline. Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry are runtime foundations that a platform can be built on. Our Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry pages focus on those specific technologies, while this page covers the full cross-cutting practice: strategy, developer experience, onboarding, SRE, and organizational enablement regardless of runtime.
What does a typical platform engineering engagement look like?
- We start with a 1-2 hour discovery session to understand your needs and build a proposal with 2-3 options. After we have a signed contract, we begin with iteration zero to handle prerequisites and schedule alignment. Then we kick off with our team embedded alongside yours, pairing throughout the engagement with full knowledge transfer.
Do you work with existing platforms or only build new ones?
- Both. We regularly assess and improve existing platforms through our Health Check service, and we also design and build new platforms from the ground up. Many engagements combine both: improving what exists while modernizing select components.
What cloud providers and technologies do you support?
- We have decades of combined experience across AWS, GCP, Azure, and vSphere. Our technology stack includes Kubernetes, Terraform, Crossplane, Argo CD, and the full CNCF ecosystem. We help you select the right technologies for your specific requirements.
Ready to Transform Your Platform?
Our team is ready to help you achieve platform excellence
Yes, let's discuss!