HI KIWI CONSULTING
We help engineering teams succeed
We help engineering organizations scale and deliver.
With over 20 years of engineering experience, ranging from startups to the world’s largest tech companies, we know what it takes to go from a dream, to a growing team, to an industry-dominating machine.
We have generated hundreds of millions of dollars of value for high tech companies, including over 90 issued US patents and over 100 active US patent applications.

Expertise
Leveraging over 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley at companies ranging from startups to today’s giants of tech, we have the expertise to help your engineering organization grow, perform efficiently, and to deliver the results your company demands of your engineering team.
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.

Testimonials
STARSKY ROBOTICS - KARTIK TIWARI, CTO
“I was amazed by Kean's promptness in recognizing patterns in our organization within the first few minutes and giving us a taste of what the possible tradeoffs would be for different approaches to organization building. He has a knack to adapt his advice based on different stages of the company.”
PEAR THERAPUTICS - JEREMY GILBERT, CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
“Kean revealed himself as an astute thinker about organizational dynamics within technology teams. I would well recommend speaking with him if you are looking to grow your technology capabilities.“