Forward-Deployed DevOps & Platform Engineering,
Delivered in 90 Days.
Companies at 100–200 engineers hit a deployment inflection point where what worked before quietly breaks. We fix the architecture — not just the tooling — in a structured 90-day plan your team owns at the end.
No retainers. No long-term contracts. Every engagement starts with a focused 2–3 week Discovery Pilot so you can validate the approach before committing.
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technology problems.
They're architecture and
coordination problems.
3 minutes. Subeesh explains what Stonetusker does and exactly what to expect from an engagement.
I spent 26 years moving deliberately through every layer of engineering delivery — Linux admin, developer, build engineer, release manager, DevOps lead. At VeriSign I owned production releases. At Nokia I led release teams through the Symbian era — one of the most complex mobile delivery environments of its time. At IPInfusion I built embedded Linux delivery infrastructure for network devices, as Head of DevOps, where reliability is non-negotiable. Most recently at Vocera (Stryker), I ran a globally distributed release engineering function that 300+ engineers across India and the US depended on daily.
Across every company and every sector, the same pattern appeared. Teams grow, delivery slows down, and everyone assumes the tooling is the problem. It rarely is. The constraint is almost always structural — how work moves across team boundaries, how compliance is woven into the pipeline, how the build system scales when more people touch it. Fixing the tools without fixing the architecture is painting over rot.
I founded Stonetusker to apply those 26 years to one specific problem: delivery friction in scaling, mission-critical environments. I'm still hands-on. Every engagement involves me in the actual work — not just the strategy. I also serve as fractional CIO at Healioscan, building the engineering foundation for an AI-based cancer detection product, which keeps me accountable to the same constraints every CTO I work with faces: move fast, stay compliant, don't break things that matter.
* References available on a discovery call.
End-to-End DevOps Engineering —
Built Around Your Stack
We embed with engineering teams across SaaS, Fintech, Healthcare IT, Automotive, and Embedded Systems — rebuilding CI/CD pipelines, automating delivery workflows, and handing back infrastructure your team owns and understands. Premium execution. No black-box consulting.
What changes after you engage us
What We Build With You — End to End
Real Results, Delivered Fast
A sample of what Stonetusker has delivered — faster pipelines, safer deployments, and measurable results across embedded systems, SaaS platforms, and regulated industries.
Embedded build time cut from 4 hours to 35 minutes
Automated Yocto-based build pipelines on cloud infrastructure with full IaC — what used to block the team for half a day now completes before the next standup. 8× faster builds, zero-downtime OTA deployments from day one of the new pipeline.
Deployment time reduced by 70% across AWS and Azure
Built a unified CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions covering dual-cloud deployments — previously a manual, error-prone process. Deployment frequency tripled within 60 days. Zero rollback incidents since go-live.
Release pipeline rebuilt for a regulated AI product — compliance review from 1 day to 15 minutes
An early-stage AI healthcare product faced a hard problem: move quickly to ship new model versions, but never compromise on the audit trail that regulators require. We introduced DevSecOps automation with policy-as-code, automated evidence collection, and compliance gates built into every release — not bolted on after. 85% faster approvals, full audit rigour intact, and a pipeline the internal team now runs without external dependency.
Client names protected by NDA. References available on request.
Your Project, Protected from Day One
We know what it feels like to bet on a new partner. Every Stonetusker engagement is structured so that the risk sits with us — not with you. Here is exactly how.
Start with 2–3 weeks before you commit to anything
Every engagement begins with a focused paid pilot — scoped, time-boxed, and built to produce something real. You see the work, validate the approach, and only then decide whether to continue to the full 90-day plan. No long contracts signed on faith.
Your leadership sees everything — in real time
Pipeline progress, code reviews, deployment metrics, and milestone status are all shared with your team throughout the engagement. No black-box delivery, no "trust us, it's working" updates. You always know exactly where things stand.
You pay for results — not for time spent trying
Billing is tied to agreed milestones, not to hours logged. If a milestone isn't achieved, you don't pay for that phase. Our incentives align entirely with your outcomes — which is how it should work when you're trusting someone with your delivery pipeline.
The Difference You Won’t Find
in a Standard SOW
Three things Stonetusker does that most DevOps consultancies won’t put in writing — because they don’t actually offer them.
NDA — signed before you share a single architecture diagram
Every engagement begins with a mutual NDA or MNDA, signed before any technical discussion. Your codebase, infrastructure, IP, and internal processes stay completely confidential. We put it in writing because trust without a contract is just a claim.
Assessed before proposed — never templated
We study your stack, your team structure, and your release blockers before writing a single line of the plan. What we deliver is built around your specific environment — not adapted from a playbook that worked for a different company in a different sector.
Architecture that scales with you — not just today’s stack
Two decades of delivery engineering across cloud, embedded, and regulated industries means we’ve seen what breaks at scale — and we design around it from the start. Your infrastructure stays relevant as your team, your product, and your cloud environment grow.
Questions we hear before every first call
Yes — and it’s one of our most common engagement types. We work across Embedded Linux, Yocto, bare-metal, cloud-native, and everything between. We have specific 90-day plans for Automotive, Embedded & Defense, IoT, and Telco precisely because these stacks need different approaches. The discovery pilot is structured exactly to assess your environment before we propose anything.
The 2–3 week pilot produces something tangible — a working pipeline stage, an automated process, or a validated architecture decision — before you’ve committed to the full 90-day plan. By day 60 of the full engagement you typically see 2–3× faster release cycles. If the pilot doesn’t deliver, you don’t pay for the next phase. That’s in the agreement, not just a promise.
No. The handover is built into the plan from day one — runbooks, documentation, and a two-week live operations period where your team runs everything with us alongside. At day 90 your team owns it fully, with no ongoing Stonetusker dependency required. Optional post-engagement support is available, on your terms, without a retainer. Most clients don’t need it.
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Let’s talk about your pipeline.
30 minutes. No pitch deck. We arrive having already studied your public stack — and we’ll tell you exactly what we’d change first and why.
No retainers · No lock-in · NDA signed before we discuss your architecture
30-minute call · No pitch deck · We come with a plan specific to your stack
Wondering what this would cost for your team? Typical engagements run $20K – $50K USD over 90 days — confirmed after your paid pilot, not upfront.
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