Remove friction so your engineers spend time shipping product, not fighting tools. DX improvements compound — faster onboarding, higher flow state, lower cognitive load, better retention.
3×
faster developer onboarding
40%
fewer internal support tickets
200+
engineers onboarded to Backstage
2 hrs
from hire to first commit
Developer experience is the sum of every interaction your engineers have with their tools, processes, and platform. Slow onboarding, absent discoverability, manual toil, and tribal knowledge locked in Slack threads — each friction point costs hours every week per engineer, compounding across your entire org.
We've led DevEx teams and driven Backstage adoption at global engineering organisations. We know which investments deliver measurable productivity gains and which ones just look good in engineering all-hands slides. Our engagements start with a DX audit to find the actual pain points — not the assumed ones — and prioritise by impact-to-effort ratio.
Developer surveys, onboarding shadow sessions, and tooling inventory to build a friction map of the actual pain points — not assumed ones.
Rank friction points by engineering hours lost per week. Focus the first sprint on the highest-impact, lowest-effort improvements to show early wins.
Tooling built with developer input, piloted with a volunteer team, and rolled out org-wide only after the early adopters confirm it solves the problem.
DORA metrics, NPS surveys, and support ticket volume tracked before and after. Iterate based on real data, not assumptions.
New engineers take two weeks to become productive
At 10 hires a year, two weeks of onboarding friction is 20 engineer-weeks lost annually. Automated onboarding and a Backstage portal can cut this by 60-70%.
Senior engineers spend hours each week answering "where is X?" questions
A Backstage software catalog with automated catalog ingestion makes service ownership, dependencies, and documentation discoverable without interrupting anyone.
Knowledge is locked in Slack history and two key people's heads
Inner-source culture, ADR-first decision making, and a Backstage portal with docs-as-code integration distribute institutional knowledge before it walks out the door.
Your team uses IaC but nobody on the team fully understands it
Terraform workshops — from fundamentals to writing custom providers — turn infrastructure consumers into infrastructure contributors and reduce platform team bottlenecks.
Tell us your engineering org size and where developers lose the most time. We'll scope a DX audit and recommend the highest-ROI starting point.