The Problem:

Many organisations struggle to transition their legacy IT teams to a modern, Cloud-Native model. They often adopt the title of "DevOps" without embracing its core principles, leading to slow delivery, technical debt, and a fractured culture. This "fake DevOps" creates a critical bottleneck, hindering innovation and preventing the organisation from competing effectively. Without a clear framework for measuring success, technology investments fail to deliver the expected return on investment (ROI), creating a cycle of frustration and stagnation.

The Opportunity:

The opportunity is to transform a critical weakness into a powerful competitive advantage. By transitioning to a high-performing Platform Engineering model, you will unlock the ability to:

• Accelerate Innovation: Reduce lead times from months to minutes, allowing you to bring new products to market faster and respond to customer needs with unprecedented agility.

• Reduce Operational Costs: Streamline workflows, automate manual tasks, and optimize resource utilization, leading to significant cost savings.

• Attract & Retain Talent: Build a reputation as a company with a modern, effective engineering culture, making you a magnet for top talent in a competitive market.

• Ensure Compliance: Build operational resilience and regulatory compliance into your platform from the ground up, turning a burden into a core part of your value proposition.

Why Me:

I bring a unique combination of hands-on practitioner experience and high-level strategic leadership. For over a decade, I've not only built and led DevOps and Platform Engineering teams but have done so in the most challenging and highly regulated environments. This experience has given me a deep understanding of the real-world complexities that are often missed in theory.

My expertise is further validated by my role as a Technical Advisory Board (TAB) member at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). I am not just advising on industry standards—I'm actively helping to shape them. This provides me with a rare perspective that blends grassroots technical insights with a forward-looking vision for enterprise-level adoption. I bridge the gap between open-source innovation and corporate reality.

Unlike many consultants who offer a theoretical or one-size-fits-all approach, I provide battle-tested methodologies and a proven framework for success. I can help you avoid common pitfalls and strategically design your teams, culture, and processes to ensure they not only work but are also built for long-term scalability and efficiency.

Who is the service addressed to:

This service is for mid-to-large organisations that recognize their current IT model is a bottleneck and are committed to a fundamental digital transformation. It is addressed to:

• CIOs & CTOs who need a proven strategy to modernize their technology and organization.

• VPs of Engineering who are tasked with building high-performing, scalable teams.

• Business Leaders who are seeking to leverage technology as a core driver for business growth and competitive advantage.

What is included in the service:

I provide a proven, end-to-end framework for digital transformation, built on my five years of battle-tested experience. My service offers a strategic and practical roadmap for creating a high-performing Platform Engineering team.

I will help you:

• Establish a Foundational Identity: Transition your team from a reactive, fractured group to a unified force with a clear identity, principles, and a mission to build a self-service platform.

• Prove Value & Drive Advocacy: Implement a "value-first" approach using a proprietary framework and DORA metrics to demonstrate the direct business impact and ROI of your efforts, turning your team into an advocate for change.

• Redesign for Scale: Apply a Reverse Conway Maneuver to organize your team around your tech stack, effectively managing cognitive load and enabling continuous knowledge transfer.

• Empower Autonomous Teams: Transition from a top-down model to "OrgOps," aligning your teams with key stakeholders across the business—from security and compliance to product—to empower them to deliver value autonomously.