Cloud and Platform Engineering
Make the right way the easy way
Cloud foundations and internal platforms that give every team a safe, quick and well-lit road to production.
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Our view
Moving to the cloud is not the hard part. The hard part is what comes after: a dozen teams, each with its own way of building, securing and paying for things. We build one platform they would choose to use, and make it cheaper to follow than to ignore.
A good platform is a product. It has users, a roadmap and a team that listens to complaints. We build it that way, with your engineers, and measure it by how quickly a new service reaches production.
Costs are designed in, not discovered later. Every environment is tagged, budgeted and reported in plain language from the first month.
By the numbers
What a good platform changes
- 320
- technology leaders told us where their platform budgets move in 2027, in our annual Platform pulse survey.
- 45 min
- from a new service's first commit to production on the platforms we build, down from days.
- 28%
- average cut in monthly cloud spend in the first year after a KIASA cost review.
Platform pulse 2027, KIASA research, 2026; KIASA client engagements, 2024 to 2026.
What we do
Foundations, platforms and the habits around them
Cloud foundations
Accounts, networks, identity and guardrails set up once and properly, so every team starts from the same secure ground.
Internal developer platforms
Templates, pipelines and self-service environments that take a new service from idea to production without a ticket.
Infrastructure as code
Every server, network and permission described in code, reviewed like code and rebuilt from scratch in minutes.
Cloud migration
Workloads moved in planned waves, each one tested, measured and handed over before the next begins.
Cloud cost management
Spend tagged, forecast and shown to the teams who cause it, with a monthly review that ends in decisions, not charts.
Reliability engineering
Service levels agreed with the business, alerts that mean something and a calm, practised way of handling incidents.
Client work
Our work in action
Logistics
Osprey Freight runs every planning service on one platform
Eleven teams, one road to production, and 4,000 routes planned each night without a pager going off.
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Energy and utilities
Varda Energy left its data center in four planned waves
Two million meters read on infrastructure that scales up at the turn of each month and back down after.
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Software and platforms
Quillfeather Software ships to forty customers from one pipeline
A multi-tenant platform that cut onboarding a new customer from three weeks to a day.
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Telecommunications
Tellbay Mobile cut its cloud bill by a third in nine months
Idle environments switched off at night, storage tiered and every team shown its own spend.
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What we think
Thinking on cloud and platforms
Perspective
Why the second year of a cloud migration matters more than the first
Costs, habits and ownership settle in year two. What to put in place before the move to win that year.
Research report
Platform pulse: what engineering leaders will fund in 2027
Internal platforms are where 320 leaders plan to spend more in 2027, even with flat budgets.
Perspective
Green software is mostly just good software
The cheapest cloud resource to run is the one you switch off. Carbon and cost point the same way.
Research report
The maintenance dividend
Teams with a good platform spend far less of their budget keeping the lights on. The numbers behind that.
“Before, every team had its own way to production. Now there is one road, it is well lit, and nobody asks to leave it.”
How we work with you
A platform built as a product
Listen to the teams
Two weeks interviewing the engineers who will use the platform, and timing how long things take today.
Lay the foundations
Identity, networks, guardrails and cost reporting, in code, reviewed with your security and finance teams.
Move the first service
One real service goes to production on the new road. Its team tells us what to fix before the next.
Hand over the product
Your platform team runs the roadmap. We stay as long as you want us, and no longer.
Our leaders
Talk to the people who lead this work
Mei Lin Zhou
Practice Lead, Cloud and Platform Engineering
Has built internal platforms for logistics, telecommunications and software companies. Leads the Platform pulse survey.
Callum Reid
Principal Platform Engineer
Designed Osprey Freight's road to production. Believes a platform is finished when nobody files a ticket to use it.
Nadia Haddad
Lead, Cloud Cost Management
Turns cloud bills into decisions. Led the cost review that cut Tellbay Mobile's spend by a third.
Want a platform your teams would choose?
Tell us how long it takes to get a new service into production today. We will show you what a good answer looks like.