Current Engagement

Technical Leadership for a Cloud-Native Enterprise Platform

Coastonia currently provides hands-on technical leadership, platform engineering, release management, and production support for an AWS-hosted enterprise billing platform.

The engagement involves working alongside software developers, product stakeholders, quality assurance, operations, and client teams to deliver reliable platform improvements across multiple enterprise customer environments.

Specific customer information and proprietary implementation details are intentionally excluded.

Coastonia cloud-native platform engagement showing AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, release management, data integration, and engineering collaboration

Engagement Overview

Where Coastonia Adds Value

Senior technical leadership across delivery, platform operations, architecture, and production ownership.

Technical Leadership

Coordinate technical delivery across a team of four software developers while serving as the primary technical point of contact.

  • Assign and prioritize Jira work items
  • Support sprint planning and technical delivery
  • Conduct architecture and design reviews
  • Perform code reviews
  • Mentor developers through complex technical issues
  • Support cross-functional technical decisions

Platform Engineering

Support a cloud-native microservices platform deployed across AWS and Kubernetes environments.

  • Kubernetes application deployments
  • GitLab CI/CD pipeline improvement
  • Release engineering and deployment coordination
  • Environment configuration and automation
  • Production troubleshooting and operational support
  • Platform reliability and maintainability improvements

Architecture & Integration

Influence architecture and integration decisions across a distributed enterprise platform.

  • Spring Boot microservices
  • GraphQL and REST APIs
  • SOAP and external gateway integrations
  • Event-driven messaging
  • PostgreSQL and jOOQ data access
  • Enterprise billing and customer lifecycle workflows

Production Ownership

Participate directly in production delivery and operational decision-making for business-critical customer environments.

  • Monthly production release leadership
  • Deployment readiness and go/no-go decisions
  • Rollback planning
  • Production incident investigation
  • Root-cause analysis and corrective actions
  • Continuous operational improvement

Selected Engineering Outcome

Reducing Environment Provisioning from Days to Hours

Coastonia led the design and implementation of an automated provisioning process for new enterprise customer environments.

The workflow reduced manual coordination, improved consistency, and created a repeatable foundation for future customer growth.

BeforeSeveral days

Manual setup, coordination, and configuration risk.

AfterCompleted in hours

Repeatable workflow with improved consistency and scale.

Reduced manual effortImproved consistencyFaster onboardingLower configuration riskRepeatable deployment process

Platform Scope

4Developers coordinated
12Core microservices supported
MonthlyProduction release cadence
4Enterprise production customers supported

Platform at a Glance

Technology Environment

A cloud-native enterprise platform spanning application development, Kubernetes operations, data services, integrations, and secure delivery.

Cloud & Platform

AWS • Kubernetes • Docker • Helm • EC2 • Amazon RDS • Amazon S3

Application Platform

Spring Boot • Groovy • Java • GraphQL • REST • React

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL • jOOQ • Redis • ActiveMQ

Delivery & Security

GitLab CI/CD • HashiCorp Vault • Linux • Jira • Confluence

Why Clients Choose Coastonia

Engineering Leadership That Delivers Results

Coastonia works as an extension of your engineering team—not just as consultants. We take ownership of delivery, improve platform reliability, and help engineering organizations move faster with confidence.

Technical leadership for complex engineering teams
Cloud-native platform engineering
CI/CD and deployment automation
Release management and production ownership
Architecture and platform modernization
Long-term knowledge transfer and mentoring
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30+Years Building Enterprise Software
12+Cloud Microservices Managed
MonthlyProduction Releases Led
Days → HoursEnvironment Provisioning Improvement