HIKiwi Consulting

HIRING ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP

Great engineering leaders are essential for any modern company to flourish. If you’re hiring engineering leaders for the first time, we can help you define the role, establish required areas of expertise, find and approach top candidates, perform effective interviews, and successfully onboard great engineering leaders.

TECHNICAL DUE DILIGENCE - BUY SIDE

If you are looking to expand via M&A, we can help perform discreet, yet thorough, analyses of the technical assets of the target, their human assets, infrastructure, and processes. Given the confidentiality of these activities, utilizing our services as an independent, impartial, and discreet party can provide you deep insight into the opportunity, with minimal disruption or information leakage inside either party.

TECHNICAL DUE DILIGENCE - SELL SIDE

Packaging and presenting your company or organization in the best light is critical to attracting suitors, and returning attractive outcomes for your employees and the best value to your shareholders. We can help with internal, confidential analysis to uncover and mitigate potential issues before a buyer reveals them, to prepare an honest but attractive picture of the technical assets of your organization, and to represent your team members in ways that will protect your company's interests in the most confidential manner possible.

ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE

ENGINEERING
INFRASTRUCTURE

Appropriate engineering infrastructure is critical to enable scalability, quality, and engineering discipline. The right tools and processes can streamline an organization, vastly improve efficiency, keep your valuable engineers happy, and enable on-time delivery. We can advise on the right level of investment for your organization, and work with you to establish and adopt effective tools for your team. Whether it is source code control, code reviews, public API controls, communication tools, build systems, branching styles, or documentation, a growing organization needs the right tools and processes in order to succeed.

GROWING ENGINEERING TEAMS

Attracting the attention of great engineers is challenging. And preventing duds from slipping through your interview process can be just as important as signing-up the superstars. We can help you structure your hiring processes to give you high certainty of a skillset, cultural, and motivational fit, in order to make sure that every hire is a great hire.

ESTABLISHING SYSTEMS FOR LONG TERM SUCCESS

There are a myriad of considerations when establishing systems in your organization around diversity, performance assessments and ratings, titling and grades, compensation, promotion, onboarding, remote workers, inter and intra-team dynamics, IP portfolio development, internal and external feedback, Agile, sprints and retrospectives, bug reporting, etc. We can give you perspective on approaches that will work for your organization and culture, advise on tools, and provide techniques to make their implementation and execution an ongoing success.

MENTORING

Growing the skillsets, experience, and confidence of your employees is key to developing leaders and key contributors throughout your organization. We can mentor your employees through workplace challenges, coach them on how to succeed within your organization, and guide them to reach their full potential.

DEVELOPER PROGRAM AND SDK REVIEW

DEVELOPER PROGRAM AND
SDK REVIEW

A Developer Program and externally facing SDK not only exposes partners or the public to your product and business, but it also informs them of your company’s product quality, skillsets and capabilities, future prospects, and culture. We can help assess your company’s developer program, engagement plan, SDK, APIs, tooling and documentation, and provide you impartial feedback on how it will be received, and how to make it better. We can also assist with documentation and technical writing.