Your Internal Developer Platform
Built, Automated and Handed Over.
For SaaS and cloud-native teams where deployment speed has become the ceiling on product velocity. We fix the architecture behind slow releases, not just the tooling, and your team owns everything fully at day 90. Get a stack-specific estimate in 2 minutes →
The Bundle
The Six Modules of Platform Foundation
This is not a list of services bolted together. Each module is designed to work as part of the same delivery system so your pipeline, infrastructure, and observability all pull in the same direction.
CI/CD Pipeline Design
End-to-end pipelines built around your actual codebase, team structure, and release cadence. Not a template copied from another company.
CoreInfrastructure as Code
Full IaC with Terraform or Pulumi. Environment parity, drift detection, and cost guardrails. Every infrastructure change versioned and auditable.
CoreInternal Developer Platform
Self-service tooling so engineers provision environments and deploy services without raising a ticket. Backstage-based or custom, sized to your team.
CoreObservability Stack
Metrics, logs, and traces wired from day one. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or your preferred stack. Dashboards both engineering and leadership can read.
CoreGitOps Implementation
ArgoCD or Flux for declarative deployments. Every environment change tracked in Git. A rollback becomes a single command, not a two-hour incident.
Add-onRelease Management
Consistent, predictable release cycles with change tracking and full audit trail. No more release-day anxiety for the engineering team or leadership.
Add-onThe 90-Day Process
You see real results before committing to anything large.
Every engagement follows a four-phase structure. The pilot phase exists specifically so you can judge the quality of the work before the full engagement begins.
- Architecture assessed before any plan is written
- Paid pilot produces working output within 2 weeks
- No milestone payment until the milestone is delivered
- Your team is involved throughout, no black-box delivery
- Live handover period at days 80 to 90
Architecture Discovery
Our Experts reviews your public stack before the call. You leave with a clear diagnosis of your delivery bottleneck, even if you decide not to work with us.
Paid Discovery Pilot
A working pipeline stage or a validated architecture decision before you commit to the full engagement. Not delivered? You do not pay for the next phase. This is in the contract.
Platform Build
Our expert architects. The delivery team builds. Your team joins code reviews and receives weekly milestone updates. Nothing is hidden from your engineers.
Live Handover
Your team runs the platform. We are alongside. Runbooks, architecture docs, and recorded knowledge transfer included. Day 90: fully yours, no ongoing dependency needed.
Typical Outcomes
What changes after a Platform Foundation engagement.
Numbers from real engagements. Client names are protected by NDA. References are available on the discovery call.
Faster release cycles
Typical range across Platform Foundation clients within the first 60 days.
Engineering time reclaimed
Productive hours returned to product work once deployment coordination is automated.
Downtime deployments
Zero-downtime releases designed in from day one, not retrofitted later.
Release frequency
Tripled release cadence in a Series C SaaS client within 60 days of engagement start.
Full team ownership
Your team runs the platform independently with no retainer lock-in required.
Who It Is For
Built for teams at a specific inflection point.
Not for every engineering team. For the ones where delivery speed has become a hard ceiling on product output.
The right fit
- Series B to D SaaS or Fintech, 30 to 300 engineers
- Build times running over 20 minutes
- Manual steps still in the release process
- CTO time going to deployment coordination
- Team doubled in 12 months but the pipeline has not
- Post-funding or post-acquisition integration needed
This is not for you if
- Your team has fewer than 20 engineers
- You want a written report, not working infrastructure
- You are not ready to invest in automation now
- Your team cannot participate in the handover process
- You need a retainer relationship, not a fixed engagement
Why Stonetusker
How Platform Foundation compares.
Three ways to build a developer platform. Here is where they actually differ.
| Consideration | Stonetusker | Hire a Platform Team | Large SI / Consultancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first results | 2 weeks via pilot | 3 to 6 months hiring | 4 to 8 weeks scoping |
| Billing model | Milestone-based | Salary upfront | Time and materials |
| Seniority on the work | Our Founder or expert leads directly | Depends on hire | Usually junior consultants |
| Lock-in after delivery | None. Full handover. | None | Often retainer-dependent |
| Embedded and hardware stacks | Yes, specialist capability | Hard to hire for | Rarely |
| If it does not deliver | Milestone not hit, not billed | Sunk cost if wrong hire | Full invoice regardless |
Questions
What teams ask before they book a call.
What is an Internal Developer Platform and do I need one?
How long does it take to build a CI/CD pipeline and developer platform?
What tools does Stonetusker use?
Will our team be able to maintain the platform after you leave?
What does it cost?
We also run embedded systems. Can you handle both?
Your pipeline is slowing your product roadmap.
Let's fix the architecture.
30 minutes. No pitch deck. We will reviews your public stack before the call and will tell you exactly what he would change first, and why.
Your Internal Developer Platform
Built, Automated and Handed Over.
For SaaS and cloud-native teams where deployment speed has become the ceiling on product velocity. We fix the architecture behind slow releases, not just the tooling, and your team owns everything fully at day 90. Get a stack-specific estimate in 2 minutes →
The Bundle
The Six Modules of Platform Foundation
This is not a list of services bolted together. Each module is designed to work as part of the same delivery system so your pipeline, infrastructure, and observability all pull in the same direction.
CI/CD Pipeline Design
End-to-end pipelines built around your actual codebase, team structure, and release cadence. Not a template copied from another company.
CoreInfrastructure as Code
Full IaC with Terraform or Pulumi. Environment parity, drift detection, and cost guardrails. Every infrastructure change versioned and auditable.
CoreInternal Developer Platform
Self-service tooling so engineers provision environments and deploy services without raising a ticket. Backstage-based or custom, sized to your team.
CoreObservability Stack
Metrics, logs, and traces wired from day one. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or your preferred stack. Dashboards both engineering and leadership can read.
CoreGitOps Implementation
ArgoCD or Flux for declarative deployments. Every environment change tracked in Git. A rollback becomes a single command, not a two-hour incident.
Add-onRelease Management
Consistent, predictable release cycles with change tracking and full audit trail. No more release-day anxiety for the engineering team or leadership.
Add-onThe 90-Day Process
You see real results before committing to anything large.
Every engagement follows a four-phase structure. The pilot phase exists specifically so you can judge the quality of the work before the full engagement begins.
- Architecture assessed before any plan is written
- Paid pilot produces working output within 2 weeks
- No milestone payment until the milestone is delivered
- Your team is involved throughout, no black-box delivery
- Live handover period at days 80 to 90
Architecture Discovery
Subeesh reviews your public stack before the call. You leave with a clear diagnosis of your delivery bottleneck, even if you decide not to work with us.
Paid Discovery Pilot
A working pipeline stage or a validated architecture decision before you commit to the full engagement. Not delivered? You do not pay for the next phase. This is in the contract.
Platform Build
Subeesh architects. The delivery team builds. Your team joins code reviews and receives weekly milestone updates. Nothing is hidden from your engineers.
Live Handover
Your team runs the platform. We are alongside. Runbooks, architecture docs, and recorded knowledge transfer included. Day 90: fully yours, no ongoing dependency needed.
Typical Outcomes
What changes after a Platform Foundation engagement.
Numbers from real engagements. Client names are protected by NDA. References are available on the discovery call.
Faster release cycles
Typical range across Platform Foundation clients within the first 60 days.
Engineering time reclaimed
Productive hours returned to product work once deployment coordination is automated.
Downtime deployments
Zero-downtime releases designed in from day one, not retrofitted later.
Release frequency
Tripled release cadence in a Series C SaaS client within 60 days of engagement start.
Full team ownership
Your team runs the platform independently with no retainer lock-in required.
Who It Is For
Built for teams at a specific inflection point.
Not for every engineering team. For the ones where delivery speed has become a hard ceiling on product output.
The right fit
- Series B to D SaaS or Fintech, 30 to 300 engineers
- Build times running over 20 minutes
- Manual steps still in the release process
- CTO time going to deployment coordination
- Team doubled in 12 months but the pipeline has not
- Post-funding or post-acquisition integration needed
This is not for you if
- Your team has fewer than 20 engineers
- You want a written report, not working infrastructure
- You are not ready to invest in automation now
- Your team cannot participate in the handover process
- You need a retainer relationship, not a fixed engagement
Why Stonetusker
How Platform Foundation compares.
Three ways to build a developer platform. Here is where they actually differ.
| Consideration | Stonetusker | Hire a Platform Team | Large SI / Consultancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first results | 2 weeks via pilot | 3 to 6 months hiring | 4 to 8 weeks scoping |
| Billing model | Milestone-based | Salary upfront | Time and materials |
| Seniority on the work | Subeesh leads directly | Depends on hire | Usually junior consultants |
| Lock-in after delivery | None. Full handover. | None | Often retainer-dependent |
| Embedded and hardware stacks | Yes, specialist capability | Hard to hire for | Rarely |
| If it does not deliver | Milestone not hit, not billed | Sunk cost if wrong hire | Full invoice regardless |
Questions
What teams ask before they book a call.
What is an Internal Developer Platform and do I need one?
How long does it take to build a CI/CD pipeline and developer platform?
What tools does Stonetusker use?
Will our team be able to maintain the platform after you leave?
What does it cost?
We also run embedded systems. Can you handle both?
Your pipeline is slowing your product roadmap.
Let's fix the architecture.
30 minutes. No pitch deck. Subeesh reviews your public stack before the call and will tell you exactly what he would change first, and why.
Your Internal Developer Platform
Built, Automated and Handed Over.
For SaaS and cloud-native teams where deployment speed has become the ceiling on product velocity. We fix the architecture behind slow releases, not just the tooling, and your team owns everything fully at day 90. Get a stack-specific estimate in 2 minutes →
The Bundle
The Six Modules of Platform Foundation
This is not a list of services bolted together. Each module is designed to work as part of the same delivery system so your pipeline, infrastructure, and observability all pull in the same direction.
CI/CD Pipeline Design
End-to-end pipelines built around your actual codebase, team structure, and release cadence. Not a template copied from another company.
CoreInfrastructure as Code
Full IaC with Terraform or Pulumi. Environment parity, drift detection, and cost guardrails. Every infrastructure change versioned and auditable.
CoreInternal Developer Platform
Self-service tooling so engineers provision environments and deploy services without raising a ticket. Backstage-based or custom, sized to your team.
CoreObservability Stack
Metrics, logs, and traces wired from day one. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or your preferred stack. Dashboards both engineering and leadership can read.
CoreGitOps Implementation
ArgoCD or Flux for declarative deployments. Every environment change tracked in Git. A rollback becomes a single command, not a two-hour incident.
Add-onRelease Management
Consistent, predictable release cycles with change tracking and full audit trail. No more release-day anxiety for the engineering team or leadership.
Add-onThe 90-Day Process
You see real results before committing to anything large.
Every engagement follows a four-phase structure. The pilot phase exists specifically so you can judge the quality of the work before the full engagement begins.
- Architecture assessed before any plan is written
- Paid pilot produces working output within 2 weeks
- No milestone payment until the milestone is delivered
- Your team is involved throughout, no black-box delivery
- Live handover period at days 80 to 90
Architecture Discovery
Subeesh reviews your public stack before the call. You leave with a clear diagnosis of your delivery bottleneck, even if you decide not to work with us.
Paid Discovery Pilot
A working pipeline stage or a validated architecture decision before you commit to the full engagement. Not delivered? You do not pay for the next phase. This is in the contract.
Platform Build
Subeesh architects. The delivery team builds. Your team joins code reviews and receives weekly milestone updates. Nothing is hidden from your engineers.
Live Handover
Your team runs the platform. We are alongside. Runbooks, architecture docs, and recorded knowledge transfer included. Day 90: fully yours, no ongoing dependency needed.
Typical Outcomes
What changes after a Platform Foundation engagement.
Numbers from real engagements. Client names are protected by NDA. References are available on the discovery call.
Faster release cycles
Typical range across Platform Foundation clients within the first 60 days.
Engineering time reclaimed
Productive hours returned to product work once deployment coordination is automated.
Downtime deployments
Zero-downtime releases designed in from day one, not retrofitted later.
Release frequency
Tripled release cadence in a Series C SaaS client within 60 days of engagement start.
Full team ownership
Your team runs the platform independently with no retainer lock-in required.
Who It Is For
Built for teams at a specific inflection point.
Not for every engineering team. For the ones where delivery speed has become a hard ceiling on product output.
The right fit
- Series B to D SaaS or Fintech, 30 to 300 engineers
- Build times running over 20 minutes
- Manual steps still in the release process
- CTO time going to deployment coordination
- Team doubled in 12 months but the pipeline has not
- Post-funding or post-acquisition integration needed
This is not for you if
- Your team has fewer than 20 engineers
- You want a written report, not working infrastructure
- You are not ready to invest in automation now
- Your team cannot participate in the handover process
- You need a retainer relationship, not a fixed engagement
Why Stonetusker
How Platform Foundation compares.
Three ways to build a developer platform. Here is where they actually differ.
| Consideration | Stonetusker | Hire a Platform Team | Large SI / Consultancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first results | 2 weeks via pilot | 3 to 6 months hiring | 4 to 8 weeks scoping |
| Billing model | Milestone-based | Salary upfront | Time and materials |
| Seniority on the work | Subeesh leads directly | Depends on hire | Usually junior consultants |
| Lock-in after delivery | None. Full handover. | None | Often retainer-dependent |
| Embedded and hardware stacks | Yes, specialist capability | Hard to hire for | Rarely |
| If it does not deliver | Milestone not hit, not billed | Sunk cost if wrong hire | Full invoice regardless |
Questions
What teams ask before they book a call.
What is an Internal Developer Platform and do I need one?
How long does it take to build a CI/CD pipeline and developer platform?
What tools does Stonetusker use?
Will our team be able to maintain the platform after you leave?
What does it cost?
We also run embedded systems. Can you handle both?
Your pipeline is slowing your product roadmap.
Let's fix the architecture.
30 minutes. No pitch deck. Subeesh reviews your public stack before the call and will tell you exactly what he would change first, and why.