Case Studies

Real-world examples of how we've helped organizations overcome technical challenges and achieve their business objectives.

Multi-Cloud Migration for Healthcare Data Platform

Series C Healthcare Analytics Company (400 employees)

8 months3 engineers embedded with client team

Challenge

Running on a single AWS region with $180K/month infrastructure costs. HIPAA compliance gaps were blocking enterprise deals. Deployments took 4 hours with 30% failure rate, requiring weekend maintenance windows.

Solution

Migrated to multi-region architecture across AWS and GCP. Implemented Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, replaced manual deployments with ArgoCD GitOps, and built automated HIPAA compliance scanning into CI/CD. Containerized legacy Java monolith into 12 microservices.

Results

  • $180K → $95K monthly infrastructure (47% reduction)
  • Deployment time: 4 hours → 12 minutes
  • Passed HIPAA audit, unblocked $2.3M enterprise pipeline
  • Zero unplanned downtime in 14 months post-migration

Platform Engineering for Crypto Exchange

Pre-IPO Digital Asset Exchange (150 engineers)

6 months2 engineers, ongoing advisory

Challenge

Engineering teams waiting 2-3 days for environment provisioning. No standardization across 40+ microservices. Each team had different CI/CD setups, logging, and monitoring. New engineers took 3 weeks to ship first code.

Solution

Built internal developer platform on Backstage with self-service environment provisioning via Crossplane. Created golden path templates for new services with built-in observability (Datadog), security scanning (Snyk), and deployment (ArgoCD). Implemented service catalog with ownership tracking.

Results

  • Environment provisioning: 2-3 days → 15 minutes
  • New engineer time-to-first-commit: 3 weeks → 2 days
  • Service standardization: 40% → 94% compliance
  • Platform NPS score: 72 (measured quarterly)

SRE Practice Build-Out for Media Streaming

Streaming Platform Startup (Post-Series B)

4 months initial, 12 months retainer1 engineer + quarterly architecture reviews

Challenge

Three major outages in two months during peak viewing. No SLOs defined, no error budgets, no incident process. On-call was informal and burning out the founding engineers. P99 latency was 4.2 seconds on video start.

Solution

Defined SLOs for video start time, rebuffering ratio, and API availability. Implemented error budget policies that automatically slow deployments when budget depletes. Built incident management process with PagerDuty, runbooks in Notion, and blameless postmortem culture. Optimized CDN configuration and added edge caching.

Results

  • P99 video start latency: 4.2s → 1.1s
  • Major incidents: 3/quarter → 0 in last 9 months
  • On-call pages reduced 78% through better alerting
  • Error budget compliance: team ships features 94% of sprints