Engineering manager whose releases still need a manual checklist
Deployments happen late at night because they break things, and only 2 people understand the full sequence.
Services
Deploy on a Tuesday without a war room
We automate the pipelines, containers and monitoring that carry your code into production. For engineering teams deploying manually, or afraid to deploy at all.
What arrives
- A pipeline that builds, tests and deploys on every merge to your main branch, with logs you can read
- A staging environment your engineers can deploy to at any hour without asking us first
- Dockerfiles and Helm charts for each service, reviewed line by line with your engineers
- Alerts tuned to fire on user-facing incidents, so a notification at night means something
Who this is for
Three profiles. If none of them is recognisably you, this is probably the wrong page - and the line below is the one worth reading before you book anything.
Not a fit: If your engineers have no interest in owning the pipeline afterwards, a managed operations vendor is the better choice.
Startup CTO with 6 engineers and nobody on infrastructure
Product work stalls every sprint because somebody has to stop and repair the build or the staging server.
Product owner at a firm whose vendor built and left
The application works but nobody can release a change, and the original team is no longer reachable.
What you get
- A pipeline that builds, tests and deploys on every merge to your main branch, with logs you can read
- A staging environment your engineers can deploy to at any hour without asking us first
- Dockerfiles and Helm charts for each service, reviewed line by line with your engineers
- Alerts tuned to fire on user-facing incidents, so a notification at night means something
- A dashboard showing deployment frequency, change failure rate and recovery time, updated on every release
- A rollback command any engineer on the team can execute unsupervised, tested before we leave
- Onboarding notes that get a new developer to a running local build in 1 day
What we build it with
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GitHub Actions
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GitLab CI
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Docker
- Argo CD
- Ansible
- Prometheus
- Grafana
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Sentry
Chosen per project, not per fashion. If your team already runs something else and it works, we use that.
How the work runs
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1
1 week
Watch a release
We observe a genuine release from beginning to end, time each step, and note where it stalls or requires a human.
From you: A seat in 1 genuine deployment, plus read access to the repository and the servers.
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2
1-2 weeks
First pipeline
We automate the build and test stages for 1 service, so the team sees green checks on every pull request.
From you: A service to begin with and a test suite we can execute, even a thin one.
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3
2-4 weeks
Environments
We define staging and production in code, so both are rebuilt from the repository rather than remembered by an individual.
From you: Credentials, DNS control and agreement on who signs off a production release.
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4
1-2 weeks
Monitoring
We connect metrics, logging and alerts, then tune the thresholds for 2 weeks until the noise stops.
From you: The list of things that must never break, and a phone number for alerts.
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5
1 week
You drive
We run a release with your engineers driving while we observe, then repair whatever that exercise exposes.
From you: 2 engineers for half a day and an owner named for the pipeline.
How we work together
Fixed project
Scope and price agreed up front. Best when the outcome is known and the deadline is real.
Dedicated team
A named team for a quarter or more. Best when the roadmap will change and you want the context kept.
Staff augmentation
Engineers inside your process and your tools. Best when you have the lead and need the hands.
Invoiced in
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- CHF
- SGD
- AUD
- CAD
- AED
- SAR
- QAR
- JPY
- INR
Paid by
Card, netbanking, wallet and UPI through Razorpay, which is what our checkout runs on, so anything it accepts we accept. Bank transfer, SEPA, Wise and Payoneer for invoices that prefer it.
NDA before the first call. Full IP assignment on delivery. Contracts under Indian, English or Delaware law.
Work like this
Case studies are being written up
Three are in legal review. We can walk you through the work on a call in the meantime, including the parts that did not go to plan.
What clients say on Google
Live from our Google Business listing - not retyped here.
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Questions we get asked
We work alongside them, and the entire point is that they can operate it without us. Every pipeline is reviewed with your engineers before it merges, and the handover has them driving a genuine release. Teams that treat us as a permanent operations desk get less from this than teams that learn the system.
Yes, as long as the change fits the same time box. We work in 2-week blocks with a written plan for each. Substituting a planned item for a more urgent one is a conversation, not a contract amendment. Adding weeks is a new block, agreed in writing before it starts.
The new pipeline operates beside the existing process until it has proved itself. We deploy to staging for 1 or 2 weeks first, then to production with the manual path still available. If a release fails, the rollback command is there and your old method still works.
Secrets go into a manager such as HashiCorp Vault or the one your cloud provides, never into the repository. Our access is time-limited and tied to named accounts, so you can always identify who did what. At handover we surrender our access and you rotate every credential we touched.
During the engagement we answer alerts in agreed hours, and everything else waits for morning. We do not sell 24/7 cover that we cannot staff. What we do instead is reduce the number of alerts that require a human at all, and document the ones that remain.
Want deploys to stop hurting?
Walk us through your last release and we will identify which 2 steps are worth automating first.