Build Elite Technical Organizations
Platypus partners with ambitious companies to solve the hard problems of building technical teams that ship.
Whether you need to design a hiring system, structure your engineering org, navigate strategic technical decisions, or have someone who can actually build—we've done it at scale.
Founded by Palantir veterans. 7 years running Forward Deployed Engineering. 600+ technical interviews. Hands-on keyboard when it matters.
Featured in The Pragmatic Engineer on building Forward Deployed Engineering organizations
Strategic Partnership
FDE Organization Building
Design and implement Palantir-style forward deployed engineering organizations. We help you structure teams around customer outcomes, define operating models, and build the culture of ownership that makes FDEs effective.
Hiring System Design
End-to-end hiring process design tailored to your company's needs. From defining core traits to building interview kits to training your team. You own the system forever.
- The Hiring Blueprint (One-time project):
- See our work: Comand AI case study, Northslope Technologies case study
Fractional CTO / Technical Advisory
Strategic guidance for technical decisions, architecture choices, and engineering leadership. Especially valuable for teams working with Palantir Foundry or navigating complex technical transformations.
Hands-On Delivery
When strategic advice isn't enough, we build:
- Generative AI Applications: LLM-based products, fine-tuning pipelines, evaluation frameworks
- Blockchain Development: Smart contracts, data archival systems, Web3 infrastructure
- Palantir Foundry Implementation: Custom applications, data pipelines, production deployments
- Computational Physics: Simulation development, numerical methods, scientific computing
Recent work: Rebuilding gyrokinetics simulations with AI—testing intelligence explosion through active research.
Interviewing as a Service
On-demand expert interview capacity to scale your hiring without draining your engineers.
What's included: - Technical and behavioral interviews conducted by our Palantir/Google-trained team - Detailed candidate reports with clear hire/no-hire recommendations - 24-hour turnaround
Why These Services Together?
Building great technical organizations requires three things:
- The right people — Elite hiring systems that actually work
- The right structure — Organizations that align around outcomes, not org charts
- Technical credibility — Leaders who can still code, still architect, still debug production
Most consultancies offer one. Almost none understand all three. We've lived it at Palantir, Protocol Labs, and our own ventures.
We're not ex-engineers advising from the sidelines. We're current practitioners who understand organizational design.
Clients
Hiring Systems & FDE Organizations
- Comand AI: Designed hiring process for mission-driven engineers. Read case study →
- Northslope Technologies: Built bespoke hiring framework. Read case study →
- Sparta Commodities: Interviewing bandwidth and interviewer training
- Prodigal Tech: FDE organization building
- Fractal Analytics: FDE organizational strategy and advisory
- Object Edge: Palantir services wing development—FDE hiring and platform strategy
- Confidential clients: Hiring redesigns for multiple early-stage startups
Technical Delivery
- Metaview: LLM fine-tuning and job description generation
- Catena Labs: LLM ensemble benchmarking libraries
- Radiant AI: LLM application design and development
- Protocol Labs: Data onboarding infrastructure (2+ petabytes to Filecoin)
- Triton: Blockchain data archival to Filecoin
- Hence Technologies: Legal workflow automation
- Multiple early-stage startups: Hands-on MVP development in AI and blockchain
Recent Writing
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Hiring Assholes — Why conviction and ego are separate traits
- Building a Gyrokinetics Code Without Reading a Single Line — Development log from the AI physics experiment
- How One System Design Interview Question Almost Broke Our Hiring Process — When we over-index on the wrong signals
- The Hiring Thesis: Palantir's Secret Weapon — Making specific bets on every hire
Ready to Build Something?
For hiring & organizational design or technial projects:
Book a consultation: work@platypustech.xyz
Connect on LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/anjor-kanekar