Placeholder case study. Replace with real engagement details (with NDA-friendly anonymisation if needed).
Problem
The founding team had a paying product, but the engineering function was unsustainable. Three engineers were the only people who knew the system. Releases failed weekly. Hiring senior talent was failing because the team had no architecture story to tell candidates.
Approach
- Two-week diagnostic produced a written architecture and hiring report
- 12-week roadmap that paired architecture work with revenue work
- Hiring loop: rewrote JDs, ran 24 first-round interviews, hired 7
- Migrated monolith to a small set of event-driven services without an outage
- Stood up Datadog with SLOs that matched product KPIs
Outcome
- Engineering org grew from 3 to 14 in 9 months
- Mean release cadence: monthly → weekly
- Closed Series A on the back of a credible technical story