DevOps Platform Engineering for growing software teams
I help small and medium-sized software companies make their CI/CD, platform tooling, and developer workflows more reliable and easier to manage. For teams using Azure DevOps, GitHub, or GitLab that are noticing pipelines, templates, permissions, and platform maintenance can no longer be handled effectively on the side.
How to get started
A focused scan for software teams that can see CI/CD, platform tooling, and delivery becoming more complex, but need a clearer view of the main bottlenecks first.
Ongoing support for teams that need to keep improving and maintaining their platform without building an internal platform team right away.
Focused improvement work for teams that already know what needs to change and want to move into implementation.
Who this is for
Pipelines, templates, permissions, and release workflows matter more than before, but they are still maintained on the side by developers or tech leads.
Different repositories, teams, or products all build and deploy differently, which increases maintenance effort, delivery risk, and unnecessary variation.
The team needs more structure, reliability, and improvement, but building a full internal platform function would be too heavy or too early.
Insights and examples
In my previous blog, I explained why you should migrate from Classic Pipelines to YAML. This blog dives deeper into the steps for a smooth migration. Why switch to YAML? Migrating from Classic Pi...
Even though Microsoft has been promoting YAML Pipelines as the standard in Azure DevOps for quite some time, I’m still surprised to see Classic Pipelines being used. While most teams have adopted Y...
🖥️ Build fast, but with quality Software companies are building faster than ever, but how do you ensure quality doesn’t lag behind? As a software company, you want to deliver new features to your...
A practical look at when ad-hoc automation stops being enough for a growing software team, and why more structure in CI/CD, standardization, and platform support becomes necessary.
If you keep an eye on the release notes of Azure DevOps, you may notice some interesting new features being rolled out that you don’t see immediately in your own Azure DevOps environment. At the bo...