Developer Experience Consulting

Common Challenges & Technical Drivers

• New engineer onboarding taking weeks due to inconsistent local machine setups.
• Developers waiting days for staging environments to test pull request features.
• High cognitive load navigating hundreds of microservice repositories without service catalogs.
• Slow build, lint, and test cycle times delaying everyday development iterations.

What Is Included (In-Scope Deliverables)

• Standardized VS Code / JetBrains devcontainer configurations with pre-installed toolchains.
• Ephemeral preview environment automation creating temporary staging URLs per pull request.
• Internal developer portal deployment (Backstage) cataloging software components and APIs.
• CI/CD pipeline caching and parallelization to cut developer feedback loops.

Scope Boundaries & Transparent Exclusions

• Purchasing internal developer hardware (laptops, monitors).
• Commercial SaaS licensing subscriptions (e.g. GitHub Enterprise, JetBrains).
• Directly writing application feature code for development teams.
• Managing internal HR onboarding processes.

Tangible Engineering Deliverables

• Standardized devcontainer repository templates with complete local development tooling.
• Ephemeral environment provisioning GitHub Action creating temporary preview deployments.
• Configured Backstage software catalog and Golden Path project scaffolding templates.
• Developer onboarding handbook with self-service infrastructure documentation.

Select your target cloud environment and operational scale to view projected engineering capacity and sprint milestones.

Enterprise baseline declaration module deployed as part of this service scope. Fully auditable, zero-lockin, turnkey source code.

name: Deploy Ephemeral PR Preview
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]

jobs:
  preview:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Provision Ephemeral Namespace
        run: |
          ./scripts/create-preview-env.sh --pr ${{ github.event.number }}
          ./scripts/post-pr-comment.sh --url "https://pr-${{ github.event.number }}.preview.coronado.agency"

Sprint Delivery Roadmap & Phased Milestones

Frequently Asked Questions