For Engineering Leaders
Turn Your Engineering Team Into a Professional Operation
For VPs of Engineering who inherited quick-and-dirty codebases: We establish testing culture, DevOps practices, and engineering discipline -- without rebuilding from scratch.
30-minute technical discussion about your engineering challenges
What do engineering leaders actually get from working with Pilotcore?
Automated deployments, real test coverage, and a team that can ship confidently. We embed with your squads, establish the fundamentals, and hand you the runbook.
Who This Applies To
VPs of Engineering, Heads of Platform & DevOps at growth-stage companies
Timeline
10-week fundamentals rollout with visible progress every sprint
Investment Range
Assessment → rollout → optional advisory retainer. Book a call for scoping.
When Speed-to-Market Creates Technical Debt
You moved fast to validate the product. Now the codebase has no tests, deployments are manual, and your team spends more time firefighting than building features.
Codebase with minimal or no test coverage
How we fix it
Establish testing culture: unit tests, integration tests, CI/CD pipelines
Manual deployments taking hours or days
How we fix it
Automated deployment pipelines with rollback capabilities
Production fires and long incident recovery
How we fix it
Observability, monitoring, and structured incident response
No clear development process or standards
How we fix it
Code review workflows, branching strategy, and engineering documentation
Timeline & investment
How We Establish Engineering Fundamentals
Share this with product, finance, and platform leads so everyone knows what happens when.
Weeks 1-3
Assessment & quick wins
- • Code quality audit, deployment bottlenecks, incident history review.
- • Prioritized roadmap: what to fix first, what can wait.
- • Quick wins: fix critical gaps, establish baseline monitoring.
Investment: Fixed scope assessment
Weeks 4-10
Fundamentals rollout
- • CI/CD pipeline, automated testing framework, code review process.
- • Observability baseline: logging, metrics, alerting.
- • Knowledge transfer: pair with your team, document decisions.
Investment: Scoped to complexity
Weeks 11+
Ownership handoff
- • Team training, runbooks, and ongoing support documentation.
- • Weekly metrics review to track improvement.
- • Optional advisory retainer for complex initiatives.
Investment: Optional retainer
Give Every Stakeholder the Narrative They Need
Engineering transformation only sticks when execs, platform, product, and finance move in lockstep.
VP Engineering / CTO
Stop firefighting, start building
- • Roadmap showing board-ready progress on technical debt.
- • Incident metrics trending down, deployment confidence up.
- • Clear handoff plan so your team owns the improvements.
Platform & DevOps
Build the foundation your team needs
- • Automated pipelines your team can maintain and extend.
- • Monitoring and observability tuned to your stack.
- • Documentation and training for every new capability.
Product & Finance
Predictable delivery, quantified ROI
- • Deployment frequency, incident MTTR tracked weekly.
- • Engineering capacity freed up for feature work.
- • Clear impact story for roadmap and budget planning.
Why Engineering Leaders Choose Pilotcore
Engineering Fundamentals
Tests, CI/CD, observability -- the basics done right so your team can ship confidently
Embedded Partnership
We pair with your team, transfer knowledge, and ensure they own the improvements
Measurable Progress
Deployment frequency, incident MTTR, test coverage tracked weekly