Squad-Based Platform Engineering

What's Included

• Kubernetes/EKS platform setup with production-grade configuration
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi) for all resources
• Networking, security groups, IAM policies
• Monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog)
• Logging aggregation (ELK or CloudWatch)
• Documentation and runbooks for your team

Who Needs This

Early-stage startups (seed to Series A) building their first production infrastructure. You're moving off Heroku/Render, or your current AWS setup is fragile and manual. Team size: 3-15 engineers.

Squad Details

What's Included

• Pre-migration assessment and dependency mapping
• Phased migration plan with rollback strategy
• Data migration scripts and validation
• Blue-green or canary deployment setup
• Post-migration monitoring and optimization
• Team training on new platform

Who Needs This

Series A-C companies migrating from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native platforms. Moving monoliths to microservices, on-prem to AWS/GCP, or vendor migrations (Heroku → EKS). Teams experiencing scaling pain.

Squad Details

What's Included

• Automated build and test pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Container image building and scanning
• GitOps deployment workflows (ArgoCD/FluxCD)
• Automated rollbacks and health checks
• Environment promotion strategy (dev → staging → prod)
• Secrets management integration (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)

Who Needs This

Teams still deploying manually or with brittle scripts. You want to ship multiple times per day but current process takes hours. Engineering teams 5-30 people ready to scale velocity.

Squad Details

What's Included

• Automated security scanning in CI/CD (SAST, DAST, SCA)
• Container image vulnerability scanning
• Policy-as-code implementation (OPA/Kyverno)
• Compliance automation (SOC 2, HIPAA, etc.)
• Security dashboards and audit trails
• Developer security training

Who Needs This

FinTech, HealthTech, or companies pursuing compliance certifications. Security reviews blocking releases. Manual security processes eating weeks per deployment. Teams 10-50 engineers.

Squad Details

What's Included

• Workflow discovery and mapping sessions
• n8n/Zapier/Make.com workflow implementation
• API integrations between tools (CRM, Slack, Email, etc.)
• Data synchronization and transformation
• Error handling and monitoring
• Team training on maintaining workflows

Who Needs This

Operations teams drowning in manual data entry, copy-paste work, or tool-switching. Customer success, sales ops, finance teams spending >10 hours/week on repetitive tasks. Companies 5-100 employees.

Squad Details

What's Included

• Use case identification and agent design
• LangChain/LlamaIndex agent implementation
• Tool/function calling setup for system integration
• Vector database and knowledge base setup
• Production deployment and monitoring
• Performance tuning and cost optimization

Who Needs This

Forward-thinking companies ready to leverage AI for competitive advantage. Customer support automation, internal knowledge management, or complex decision-making workflows. Teams experimenting with AI/LLMs.

Squad Details