Platform Engineering Without the Ticket Queue
Build self-service infrastructure and workflows so developers can skip tickets and start shipping.
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Let developers help themselves
Developers shouldn’t need infrastructure expertise to deploy code. But without a platform, every team builds their own workflows, ops becomes a bottleneck, and onboarding takes weeks instead of days. We build internal developer platforms with self-service tooling and golden paths so your engineers focus on features, not infrastructure.
Our capabilities include:
- Internal developer platform design and implementation
- Self-service infrastructure provisioning
- Golden path and workflow standardization
- Developer portal setup and configuration
- CI/CD pipeline integration and optimization
- Platform adoption and developer onboarding
Who we support
Teams Where Ops Is the Bottleneck
Every environment request, database setup, or deployment change goes through the same overloaded ops team. Developers wait while ops drowns in tickets. You need self-service tooling that lets developers provision what they need without filing requests.
Companies With Inconsistent Tooling
Each team approaches deployment in its own unique way. Some use Jenkins, some use GitHub Actions, some do it manually. There's no standard path and no shared infrastructure. You need golden paths that create consistency without killing flexibility.
Organizations Scaling Engineering
You're hiring fast but onboarding takes weeks because there's no platform. New developers have to learn tribal knowledge from five different teams. You need a developer portal and standardized workflows that get people productive in days.
Ways to engage
We offer a wide range of engagement models to meet our clients’ needs. From hourly consultation to fully managed solutions, our engagement models are designed to be flexible and customizable.
Staff Augmentation
Get access to on-demand product and engineering team talent that gives your company the flexibility to scale up and down as business needs ebb and flow.
Retainer Services
Retainers are perfect for companies that have a fully built product in maintenance mode. We'll give you peace of mind by keeping your software running, secure, and up to date.
Project Engagement
Project-based contracts that can range from small-scale audit and strategy sessions to more intricate replatforming or build from scratch initiatives.
We'll spec out a custom engagement model for you
Invested in creating success and defining new standards
Why choose Curotec for platform engineering?
Our engineers build platforms that developers actually adopt. We design self-service infrastructure, golden paths, and developer portals that reduce friction instead of adding another tool to ignore. You get a platform that makes your team faster, not more documentation to maintain.
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Extraordinary people, exceptional outcomes
Our outstanding team represents our greatest asset. With business acumen, we translate objectives into solutions. Intellectual agility drives efficient software development problem-solving. Superior communication ensures seamless teamwork integration.
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Deep technical expertise
We don’t claim to be experts in every framework and language. Instead, we focus on the tech ecosystems in which we excel, selecting engagements that align with our competencies for optimal results. Moreover, we offer pre-developed components and scaffolding to save you time and money.
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Balancing innovation with practicality
We stay ahead of industry trends and innovations, avoiding the hype of every new technology fad. Focusing on innovations with real commercial potential, we guide you through the ever-changing tech landscape, helping you embrace proven technologies and cutting-edge advancements.
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Flexibility in our approach
We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to meet your specific needs. Whether you prefer our end-to-end project delivery, embedding our experts within your teams, or consulting and retainer options, we have a solution designed to suit you.
Capabilities for self-service platforms
Internal Platform Design
Self-Service Provisioning
Golden Path Development
Developer Portal Setup
CI/CD Integration
Platform Adoption
Tools and technologies for platform engineering
Developer Portals & Service Catalogs
Our engineers build portals that give developers a single place to discover services, access tools, and find documentation.
- Backstage — Spotify-developed portal for service catalogs, documentation, and plugin integrations that centralizes developer tooling
- Port — Internal developer portal with self-service actions, scorecards, and integrations for tracking service ownership
- Cortex — Service catalog with scorecards, ownership tracking, and integrations that help teams maintain service standards
- OpsLevel — Developer portal with service maturity tracking, ownership management, and catalog search across microservices
- Roadie — Managed Backstage platform with hosted infrastructure, plugins, and support for teams without portal expertise
- Compass — Atlassian developer portal with component tracking, dependency mapping, and Jira integration for service management
Infrastructure as Code
Curotec implements IaC tools that let developers provision resources through code instead of tickets or manual configuration.
- Terraform — HashiCorp tool for declarative infrastructure provisioning across cloud providers with state management and modules
- Pulumi — Infrastructure as code using general-purpose languages like Python, TypeScript, and Go instead of domain-specific syntax
- Crossplane — Kubernetes-native IaC that provisions cloud resources through custom resource definitions and GitOps workflows
- AWS CDK — Amazon framework for defining cloud infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, or Java with CloudFormation deployment
- OpenTofu — Open-source Terraform fork with community governance and compatibility with existing Terraform configurations
- Ansible — Automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure provisioning with YAML playbooks
Container Orchestration
We configure container platforms that handle deployment, scaling, and management so developers focus on applications.
- Kubernetes — Container orchestration platform for deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications across clusters
- Amazon EKS — Managed Kubernetes service with AWS integrations, automatic upgrades, and control plane availability
- Google GKE — Managed Kubernetes with autopilot mode, integrated monitoring, and Google Cloud service mesh support
- Azure AKS — Microsoft managed Kubernetes with Azure Active Directory integration, policy enforcement, and hybrid support
- Nomad — HashiCorp orchestrator for containers, VMs, and standalone applications with simpler operations than Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift — Enterprise Kubernetes platform with built-in CI/CD, developer console, and security hardening
GitOps & Continuous Delivery
Our teams set up deployment workflows where infrastructure and application changes flow through Git with automated sync.
- Argo CD — GitOps continuous delivery tool that syncs Kubernetes clusters with Git repositories automatically
- Flux — GitOps toolkit for Kubernetes that monitors repositories and reconciles cluster state with declared configurations
- GitHub Actions — CI/CD platform with workflow automation, reusable actions, and native GitHub repository integration
- GitLab CI/CD — Integrated pipeline platform with merge request automation, environments, and built-in container registry
- Tekton — Kubernetes-native pipeline framework with reusable tasks and triggers for building cloud-native CI/CD systems
- Spinnaker — Multi-cloud continuous delivery platform with deployment strategies, canary analysis, and pipeline orchestration
Secret Management & Security
Curotec integrates security tooling that handles credentials, policies, and compliance without slowing developer workflows.
- HashiCorp Vault — Secrets management platform with dynamic credentials, encryption, and access policies for sensitive data
- AWS Secrets Manager — Managed service for storing and rotating credentials with IAM integration and audit logging
- SOPS — Mozilla tool for encrypting secrets in Git repositories with support for AWS KMS, GCP, and PGP keys
- External Secrets Operator — Kubernetes operator that syncs secrets from external stores like Vault into cluster secrets
- Open Policy Agent — Policy engine for enforcing security rules across Kubernetes, APIs, and infrastructure as code
- Sealed Secrets — Bitnami controller for encrypting Kubernetes secrets so they can be stored safely in Git repositories
Observability Integration
We connect monitoring, logging, and tracing into the platform so developers see application health without separate tools.
- Datadog — Full-stack observability platform with metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards integrated into a single view
- Grafana — Visualization platform for metrics and logs with customizable dashboards and multi-source data support
- Prometheus — Time-series monitoring with powerful querying, alerting, and broad ecosystem of exporters for metrics collection
- OpenTelemetry — Vendor-neutral framework for collecting traces, metrics, and logs across services and languages
- Loki — Grafana log aggregation system designed for cost-effective storage and querying alongside Prometheus metrics
- PagerDuty — Incident management platform that routes alerts from monitoring tools to on-call engineers with escalation policies
FAQs about our platform engineering services
What is an internal developer platform?
An IDP is a self-service layer of tools, workflows, and infrastructure that lets developers provision resources, deploy code, and manage applications without waiting on ops or filing tickets.
How is this different from DevOps?
DevOps is a culture and set of practices for faster delivery. Platform engineering builds the actual tooling that makes DevOps practices repeatable and self-service across teams.
Do we need Kubernetes for a developer platform?
Not necessarily. Kubernetes is common, but platforms can be built on serverless, VMs, or managed services. We design around your infrastructure, not the other way around.
How do you get developers to actually use the platform?
By building something useful, not just compliant. We focus on reducing friction, not adding gates. Golden paths need to be easier than workarounds or developers will ignore them.
Can you integrate with our existing CI/CD pipelines?
Yes. We work with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI, and others. The goal is consolidating and standardizing what you have, not replacing everything at once.
How long does it take to build an internal platform?
A basic self-service layer takes weeks. A full platform with portals, golden paths, and observability takes months. We typically start with high-impact workflows and expand from there.
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