Backstage, Port, and Crossplane-powered internal developer platforms for regulated estates: golden paths, policy guardrails, and audit-evidence emitted by the platform so product engineers ship without ticket queues.
From the developer portal your engineers see to the policy plane your auditors trust. Each sub-discipline is shipped by senior platform engineers who have built the same surface across regulated estates.
Backstage, Port, or Cortex deployed as the single developer surface: service catalogue, scorecards, on-call rotation, audit posture in one place.
Opinionated templates for the 80% workloads (web service, async worker, scheduled job, ML serving), each with audit-evidence wiring baked in.
Tier-1 templated provisioning + Tier-2 request-with-SLA via Crossplane or Humanitec: databases, queues, clusters without filing a ticket.
OPA, Kyverno, and Sentinel policies enforced at plan-time and admission: encryption, retention, and egress are not opt-in for regulated workloads.
Every golden path emits OpenTelemetry traces, RED metrics, structured logs, and audit events: dashboards generated, not configured.
Platform PM, user research, adoption telemetry, NPS feedback loop, quarterly roadmap with product engineering: run as a product, not a side-project.
Where platform teams ship tools nobody uses, a platform-as-a-product approach earns the adoption back. Every left-hand pain becomes a right-hand outcome the day a product team onboards.
Templated databases, queues, and clusters provisioned through the IDP: no tickets, no waiting on the platform team.
Web, async, batch, and ML-serving workloads ship on the same opinionated template: quality is a default, not a discipline.
SBOM, provenance, change records, and access logs are platform output: auditors read a dashboard, not a per-service binder.
Backstage / Port surfaces ownership, dependencies, on-call, and scorecards: on-call knowledge stops being tribal.
Per-service adoption metrics drive the platform PM's next quarter: features ship because engineers asked, not because management did.
OPA, Kyverno, and Sentinel block non-compliant changes before they land: encryption and retention are mechanical, not advisory.
OpenTelemetry traces, RED metrics, and audit events render from the same dashboards across every golden-path service.
The IDP and the golden paths are cloud-abstract by design. Crossplane and Humanitec handle the multi-cloud realisation so the developer never picks a cloud target unless they have to.
Default for IDPs anchored on EKS + EventBridge
Default where AD anchors developer identity
Default for data and ML-heavy platforms
These are load-bearing for any platform we ship, not stage gates, not afterthoughts. Each pillar lives in the platform roadmap from week one.
Platform-as-a-product practice with a platform PM, product-engineer user research, and adoption telemetry that steers the quarterly roadmap.
OPA, Kyverno, and Sentinel guardrails enforced at plan-time and admission-time: regulated-workload constraints are mechanical, not advisory.
SBOM, image provenance, change records, and access logs emitted by the platform: auditors read a dashboard, not a per-service binder.
Golden paths designed with product engineers in the loop: DX measured, reviewed, and treated as a quality bar, not a nice-to-have.
Every engagement walks the same path, sized to your problem, but with the same verification gates baked in.
Two-week paid sprint. Architect-led. Output: regulator map, costed roadmap, signed scope.
Pod composition, sequenced milestones, change-control governance, and risk register.
Reference architecture, threat model, design system, and acceptance criteria locked.
Weekly demos, trunk-based, CI/CD from day one. Code reviewed against spec at every gate.
Unit, integration, e2e, security, performance, and accessibility, automated and gated.
Blue-green or canary, observability live before launch, rollback rehearsed.
Managed services or hypercare hand-off. Defined SLOs, named on-call, monthly reviews.
Success stories
Built a cloud platform ingesting telemetry from 1.2M connected vehicles at scale.
Stood up a compliant, multi-account landing zone for a government department in 7 weeks.
Consolidated 14 clusters to one governed platform, cutting ops toil 55% for a logistics operator.
Migrated 900 clinical workloads off two datacentres to the cloud with zero downtime on patient-facing systems.
Re-platformed e-commerce to the cloud, holding availability through a record peak-season trading day.
Lifted MES and quality systems to the cloud across nine plants, cutting infrastructure cost 34%.
Delivered validated, GxP-compliant CI/CD, cutting release lead time 8x with full audit evidence.
Lifted release frequency 15x with automated gates and one-click rollback.
Cut mean-time-to-detect 72% for a food-delivery platform with unified tracing and SLOs.
Ran a telemedicine platform to a 99.98% SLO with a follow-the-sun on-call.
Cut monthly cloud spend 37% for a genomics biotech without slowing a single pipeline.
Held critical-patch SLA to 48 hours across an insurer's estate, evidenced every cycle.
BritonOne Technology is a full-cycle engineering company that builds and operates production software for regulated estates. Since 2017, we have shipped programmes that clear audit on the first pass across banking, insurance, wealth, healthcare, and biotech. Our teams pair deep domain knowledge with disciplined engineering, treating compliance, security, and resilience as first-class deliverables. From architecture through to live operations, we stay accountable for the systems we build, measuring success by uptime, audit outcomes, and defensible business results.
We don't compete on lowest day-rate. We compete on shipped outcomes inside environments that have to clear audit.
Every engineer on every engagement is at least senior, typically eight to fifteen years deep in their craft. No bench rotations, no junior pyramid hidden behind a glossy proposal, no bait-and-switch after contract signature. The architect who scoped your engagement is the same person committing code by week three.
FCA, PRA, EBA, BaFin, FINMA, HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II: every framework we work under is treated as a design constraint from day one, not a final-stage gate. Evidence trails, model-risk packs, change-control artefacts, and pen-test reports ship alongside the code, ready for second-line review without a remediation sprint.
Small pods of three to seven engineers, each with a named delivery lead who owns scope, schedule, and outcomes from kickoff to hand-off, never a faceless team you have to chase for an answer. Weekly demos run against the signed scope, frequent verification gates catch regressions early, and quarterly outcome reviews measure real progress against the original business case rather than a moving target. Together those rituals catch scope drift before it has any chance to compound, so programmes that should take six months don't quietly stretch into eighteen, budgets stay anchored to what was agreed, and every milestone ships with a written, testable definition of done that both sides sign off before we move on.
We don't disappear the moment the engagement closes. Managed services, hypercare windows, named on-call rotations, or quarterly health checks: pick the depth that matches your operational risk profile. About seventy percent of clients return for a second programme, usually because the team that shipped the first one is still on the other end of the page.
Anonymous under MNDA. Each quote is from a senior buyer who owned the engagement end to end across the services catalogue.
“BritonOne Technology replaced two of our incumbent vendors with one team. Faster sprints, fewer status meetings, more code shipped per week.”
