Why ELOS exists
The engineering lifecycle is the one thing nobody owns.
Every engineering organization runs on mature systems. The journey of each engineer through them, from the first day to the last and beyond, falls between those systems and belongs to none of them.
The problem, in numbers
Engineers spend their week looking, not building.
Half of developers lose more than 10 hours a week to organizational friction, and finding information is one of the biggest causes (Atlassian, State of Developer Experience 2025, 3,500 developers and managers). 61% spend more than 30 minutes every day searching for answers, and for 30% knowledge silos interrupt their work ten or more times a week (Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024).
How your systems really work lives in people.
In one survey, people said 42% of what they know to do their job isn't known to anyone else (Panopto with YouGov, 2018, 1,000 workers). Every move and every departure takes a piece of it away.
Access outlives the job.
83% of people surveyed kept using a former employer's accounts after they left (Beyond Identity, 2022, 1,121 respondents in the US, UK and Ireland).
Why it isn't solved
Each tool you run is good at its own job, and the lifecycle falls between them.
| The tool | Owns | Stops at |
|---|---|---|
| HR system | Hiring and the employee record | The start date |
| Identity provider | Accounts and sign-in | Knowing which access a role, a team move or a departure should change |
| Service desk | Tickets | Each request on its own, with no picture of the person's whole journey |
| Developer portal | Services and their owners | The people behind them, and their handovers |
| Wiki | Pages | Keeping them true |
An engineer's journey crosses every one of these systems, so it belongs to none of them. It's done by hand, in tickets and chat, and nobody can measure it, audit it or keep it.
What ELOS does
ELOS owns that seam. It connects the tools you already run and handles the lifecycle across them. It replaces none of your tools.
See the whole lifecycle- A day-one plan and access bundle for every joiner
- Least-privilege access, with approvals and elevation that expire on their own
- The access changes a move requires, and a handover plan for every departure
- Organizational knowledge your team can ask, with answers that cite their sources and respect each person's permissions
Who builds it
ELOS is built by Sandesh R, founder of SanShivaSHELL, a browser-based SSH, DevOps and AIOps platform for SRE and platform engineering teams. Building for those teams made this gap impossible to miss: every system was well run, but the lifecycle between them was nobody's job.