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B2B SaaS · 2024
Embedded for two quarters — deploys 4×, pages down 52%
A strong team was drowning in on-call and slow deploys mid-hire. I embedded as a staff IC to raise the bar on observability, testing, and delivery — and mentored the team to keep it.
Embedded staff engineer (retainer)Retainer (3 days/week)2 quartersStaff IC →
measured outcome
4×
deploy frequency
−52%
on-call pages
2 qtrs
embedded, then clean exit
5
engineers leveled up
// The problem
Deploys were weekly and scary, on-call was burning out senior engineers, and two key hires were months out. They needed staff-level help that wouldn’t become a dependency.
// The approach
client
Engineers
service
CI pipeline
trunk-based
service
Progressive deploy
canary + rollback
queue
OpenTelemetry
traces + metrics
store
SLO dashboards
error budgets
Delivery + observability loop the team now owns.
Instrumented the services with OpenTelemetry and built golden-signal dashboards.
Defined SLOs and replaced noisy alerts with budget-based, actionable ones.
Introduced trunk-based development, a fast CI pipeline, and progressive delivery.
Paired with engineers on the hardest tickets and ran weekly architecture office hours.
Documented everything and ran a deliberate handoff so the gains stuck after I left.
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