platformengr · platform engineering for the AI coding era
The platform your developers and their AI agents ship on
We help software companies build their internal platform: golden paths, GitOps, guardrails and a developer portal, so teams ship safely, fast and on budget. Built in your cloud and your repositories, and handed over so your own team runs it.
01 why now
Your platform is now the control plane for AI agents
Kubernetes, GitOps and Backstage are still the substance. What has changed is how much code arrives, and who writes it.
More code, from more authors
AI coding agents multiply how much code gets written. Without golden paths and review gates, that becomes incidents.
Guardrails before speed
Policy as code, permissions and secrets handled once in the platform, so every team and every agent gets them by default.
Costs you can see
Budgets for cloud and AI usage per team, visible where engineers already look, before the bill arrives.
02 services
How we help your team
Take one on its own or combine them. We usually start with an assessment, and every engagement has an agreed scope and price before work starts.
Platform assessment
Where you are, what to fix first
We review how your teams build, ship and run software today, how ready that is for AI coding agents, and what it costs. You get a written report with a prioritised roadmap.
Platform foundation
Golden paths, GitOps, guardrails
Kubernetes, GitOps with Argo CD, CI/CD, golden paths and policy as code, built in your cloud and your repositories, then handed over with the runbooks.
Developer portal
Backstage your developers use
A Backstage portal your developers actually use: a catalog of your services, golden-path templates, docs next to the code and the plugins you need.
AI guardrails
Let AI agents ship safely
Your platform as the control plane for AI coding agents: an LLM gateway with budgets, an internal MCP server that exposes deploys, logs and the catalog, and permissions for what agents may do.
Fractional platform lead
Senior platform lead, part time
A senior platform engineer a few days a month: roadmap, architecture and code reviews, and mentoring for the engineers who run your platform.
Team training
Hands-on courses for your engineers
Your engineers work through our hands-on courses together, with an instructor and a shared view of everyone’s progress.
03 what we build
An internal platform, layer by layer
Open-source tools, in code you own. Every layer is something your developers or their agents use every day.
Developer portal
One place to find every service, its owner, its docs and how to start something new.
- Backstage
- TechDocs
- Software catalog
AI agent access
Coding agents use the platform through the same doors as people, with budgets and permissions.
- LLM gateway
- MCP server
- Agent permissions
Golden paths
New services start from a template that is already production-ready.
- Software templates
- CI/CD pipelines
Delivery and guardrails
Every change goes through Git, review and policy before it reaches a cluster.
- Argo CD
- Policy as code
- Secrets out of Git
Observability
Metrics, logs and traces that tell a team its service is healthy, and what it costs.
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Infrastructure
Clusters, networks and cloud resources defined in code, rebuilt from Git.
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Your cloud
04 how we work
In your cloud, with your engineers
We don't host your platform or lock you into a product. We build it with your team and leave them able to run it.
- TalkA call or an email about where your platform is today and what slows your teams down.
- AssessWe review your setup and agree the scope and the price before any work starts.
- BuildWe build in your cloud and your repositories, with your engineers alongside.
- Hand overRunbooks, training and a platform your own team runs from day one.
05 open by default
See how we work before you talk to us
Our methods are public. The reference repos show the layouts, guardrails and failure drills we use with teams, and our hands-on courses teach them step by step.
Reference repos
Courses, free to read
- Argo CD: from commit to cluster14 modules · about 12 hours
- Fleet GitOps13 modules · about 10 hours
- Backstage: run your developer portal11 modules · about 9 hours
- Backstage plugins: build your own10 modules · about 7 hours
Finished a track? Engineers can earn a certificate graded on their own repo (€149 per exam; vouchers cover it).
Tell us where your platform is today
We read every enquiry and reply by email, usually within two working days, with a few questions or a short proposal.