# Kong Professional Services
Set your Kong projects up for success with our team of experts.
## Expert services, at your service
Best-practice architecture and deployment planning for every initiative.
Get the most from the Kong platform faster, and hit the outcomes you're after.
Shape the platform to how your organization actually works.
## Get your use cases to production with the capabilities you need
Outcome-based packages that take you to a production-ready Kong platform. Pick the capabilities your project needs.
### Jumpstart Deployment
A production-ready Kong Gateway in three weeks — one environment, core security, and the workshops to run it.
- - Discovery and blueprint design
- - Control and data plane deployment
- - Baseline security and observability
- - Enterprise plugin workshop
### Basic Deployment
Go live across non-production and production, with SSO, RBAC, and automation samples to build on.
- - Everything in Jumpstart, across two tiers
- - SSO, RBAC, and audit logs
- - Authentication and authorization
- - CI/CD and platform ops samples
## Services that scale with you
Add expertise and coverage when you need it, beyond the initial deployment.
### Resident Engineer Subscription
A dedicated engineer embedded with your team, going deeper than project work to maximize how much of the platform you put to work.
- - Your own designated Kong engineer, week over week
- - Focused on capability enablement and adoption
- - Center of Excellence practices and knowledge transfer
- - Architecture, platform operations, and migration support
### Custom Plugin Development
Extend the Kong platform with custom plugins built to your requirements — with ongoing support.
- - Built to your business requirements
- - Extends and enhances the platform
- - Ongoing maintenance and support
### Instructor-led Training
Tailored enablement for your team, onsite or virtual, delivered by Kong experts.
- - Tailored to your organization
- - Operations, developer and security tracks
- - Delivered by Kong experts