Give Your Developers Superpowers
We build internal developer platforms that let your engineering teams self-serve infrastructure, environments, and deployments — without waiting for ops tickets or learning the complexity underneath.
Platform Engineering
- Backstage Portal
- Service Templates
- Self-Service Infrastructure
- Secrets Self-Service
Internal Developer Platform
An IDP is the product your platform team builds for its internal customers — your developers. It abstracts infrastructure complexity and provides opinionated golden paths for common workflows.
Get Started- Backstage implementation as the developer portal
- Software catalog with ownership and dependency tracking
- Self-service scaffolding for new services and repos
- Integrated CI/CD, secrets, and infrastructure self-service
- Developer documentation hub replacing scattered wikis
Golden Paths & Templates
A golden path is a supported, opinionated way to accomplish a common developer task — reducing cognitive load and ensuring consistency across the platform.
Get Started- Service templates: Node.js, Python, Go with CI/CD pre-configured
- Infrastructure templates: databases, queues, storage with best practices
- Environment provisioning templates for dev and staging
- Security controls embedded in every golden path template
- Template versioning and migration tooling
Self-Service Infrastructure
The goal of platform engineering is reducing the ops ticket queue. Self-service gives developers the capabilities they need without requiring an ops request.
Get Started- On-demand environment provisioning via pull request
- Database provisioning with security controls built in
- Secret management self-service via Vault
- Cost-limited sandbox environments with automatic cleanup
- Kubernetes namespace self-service with RBAC guardrails
Developer Experience Metrics
Platform engineering without measurement is just platform guessing. We instrument developer experience metrics to prioritize platform improvements by impact.
Get Started- SPACE framework metrics: Satisfaction, Performance, Activity, Communication, Efficiency
- DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, CFR
- Developer survey programs and NPS tracking
- Platform adoption and golden path usage analytics
- Cognitive load measurement through ticket and interruption analysis
What We Deliver
A comprehensive set of Platform Engineering capabilities, designed to work together or independently.
Backstage Portal
Spotify Backstage implementation as your internal developer portal with catalog and plugins.
Service Templates
Opinionated project scaffolding templates with CI/CD, security, and observability pre-wired.
Self-Service Infrastructure
Developer self-service for environments, databases, and cloud resources with guardrails.
Secrets Self-Service
HashiCorp Vault integration for developer secret management without ops involvement.
Developer Metrics
DORA and SPACE metrics dashboards measuring platform impact on developer productivity.
Platform Documentation
Centralized developer documentation and runbooks in the Backstage portal.
Platform teams typically reduce ops ticket volume by 40–60% through self-service automation.
Self-service environment creation from days to minutes.
Golden paths and Backstage reduce time to first production commit for new engineers.
Why Choose InnovTen
We don't just deliver projects. We build partnerships that drive long-term outcomes.
Faster Developer Onboarding
New engineers productive in days, not weeks, with self-service tooling and documentation.
Reduced Cognitive Load
Developers focus on product code — not learning Terraform, Kubernetes, and deployment pipelines.
Compliance by Default
Security and compliance controls embedded in templates — developers can't easily bypass them.
Faster Time to Market
Removing ops bottlenecks means features ship faster — the ops team focuses on platform improvement.
Happy Developers
Good developer experience is a significant factor in engineer retention and satisfaction.
Platform as Product
Treating the platform as an internal product with roadmap, feedback loops, and SLAs.
Our Delivery Process
How we approach every Platform Engineering engagement, from first call to ongoing operations.
Developer Pain Point Discovery
Interviews and surveys with development teams to identify top frustrations and bottlenecks.
Platform Roadmap
Prioritize self-service capabilities by developer impact and implementation complexity.
IDP Foundation
Deploy Backstage, integrate software catalog, and build core developer portal features.
Golden Path Build
Implement service templates and self-service workflows for the highest-demand capabilities.
Measure & Iterate
Instrument developer metrics, gather feedback, and iterate on the platform.
Developer Pain Point Discovery
Interviews and surveys with development teams to identify top frustrations and bottlenecks.
Platform Roadmap
Prioritize self-service capabilities by developer impact and implementation complexity.
IDP Foundation
Deploy Backstage, integrate software catalog, and build core developer portal features.
Golden Path Build
Implement service templates and self-service workflows for the highest-demand capabilities.
Measure & Iterate
Instrument developer metrics, gather feedback, and iterate on the platform.
Platform Engineering in Action
Real-world applications across industries we've delivered for.
Backstage Developer Portal
Backstage implementation for 200-engineer org — software catalog, service templates, and TechDocs replacing 4 scattered wikis.
Self-Service Environments
On-demand dev and staging environments via PR comment — provisioned in 8 minutes, auto-deleted after 7 days.
Golden Path Program
Service templates for Python, Node, and Go services — new service to first production deployment in < 2 hours.
Platform Team Launch
Established platform engineering function from scratch for a 150-person engineering org — team structure, roadmap, and first self-service capabilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about our Platform Engineering services.
An IDP is the curated set of tools, workflows, and capabilities your platform team provides to application developers. It's not a single product — it's the combination of your CI/CD system, infrastructure self-service, secret management, observability, and developer portal, unified behind a coherent developer experience.
Backstage is the leading open-source developer portal framework — excellent for software catalog, documentation, and plugin integration. But it requires engineering investment to deploy and maintain. For smaller organizations (< 50 engineers), simpler alternatives like Port or Cortex may be more appropriate. We assess based on your team size and complexity.
A golden path is an opinionated, supported way to accomplish a common developer task — like creating a new microservice or provisioning a database. It bundles best practices, security controls, and CI/CD into a template. Developers don't have to make decisions about logging, tracing, or deployment — it's all pre-configured.
We measure DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate), ops ticket volume, time-to-first-commit for new engineers, and developer NPS. These give a quantitative picture of platform impact that justifies the investment.
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