Case Studies

Proven Results for Government & Enterprise

Real implementations. Measurable outcomes. No fluff.

50%
Cloud Cost Reduction
99.9%
Uptime SLA
10x
Faster Deployments
82%
Reduction in Incidents
Federal Agency

Legacy Data Center Migration to AWS GovCloud

U.S. Federal Regulatory Agency, Mid-Atlantic Region

Challenge

A federal agency operated a 15-year-old on-premise data center housing 200+ servers across two aging facilities. Infrastructure was 60% over capacity on end-of-life hardware with critical NIST 800-53 compliance gaps, no disaster recovery plan, and a team of three administrators managing reactive incidents full-time.

Approach

  • Full portfolio assessment and dependency mapping across 200+ workloads
  • Designed phased 6-wave migration plan with lowest-risk workloads first
  • Built AWS GovCloud landing zone aligned to FedRAMP Moderate using AWS Control Tower
  • Automated migration execution with AWS SMS and Database Migration Service
  • Infrastructure as Code via Terraform and CloudFormation for auditable deployments
  • Deployed Splunk SIEM and AWS Security Hub with 85+ compliance-mapped controls

Outcome

The agency achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, eliminated all end-of-life hardware risk, and reduced infrastructure costs by 42% in the first year. Zero production outages occurred during the migration. The three-person ops team transitioned from reactive firefighting to proactive monitoring.

SaaS Startup

DevOps Transformation & CI/CD Pipeline Build-Out

B2B SaaS Platform, 45-Person Engineering Team

Challenge

A fast-growing SaaS startup had a manual deployment process taking 3+ hours per release. No automated testing, no staging parity, weekly production outages directly impacting customer churn. Engineering velocity stalled as developers spent more time deploying than building.

Approach

  • 2-week DevOps maturity assessment across the full SDLC
  • Containerized 12 application services with Docker using multi-stage builds
  • Deployed Kubernetes (EKS) with Helm charts and ArgoCD GitOps
  • Built GitHub Actions pipelines with unit testing, integration testing, and SAST scanning
  • Implemented Datadog full-stack observability with custom SLO dashboards
  • Self-service preview environments for every pull request

Outcome

Deploy time dropped from 3 hours to 12 minutes. The engineering team went from 1 release per week to 8+ releases per week. Zero production outages in the 6 months following rollout. Cloud infrastructure costs decreased 35% through right-sizing and reserved instance optimization.

Municipal Government

Zero-Trust Network Redesign After Ransomware

Mid-Size City IT Department, Northeast U.S.

Challenge

A city government suffered a ransomware attack encrypting critical public safety and permitting systems, causing a 72-hour service outage. Forensic review revealed a flat network with no segmentation, no EDR, and thousands of unpatched endpoints.

Approach

  • Emergency CrowdStrike Falcon EDR deployment across 2,400 endpoints within 72 hours
  • Designed zero-trust architecture with 18 network segmentation zones
  • Migrated identity to Azure AD/Entra ID with conditional access and MFA
  • Deployed Zscaler ZTE replacing legacy VPN
  • Built Microsoft Sentinel SIEM with 60+ custom detection rules
  • Wrote IR playbook and trained city IT staff on response procedures

Outcome

Full EDR coverage achieved in 72 hours. The zero-trust architecture eliminated the flat network exposure that enabled the original attack. 60+ custom detection rules went live in Microsoft Sentinel. Zero security incidents in the 12 months following deployment. City IT staff self-sufficient on all new tooling within 30 days.

Healthcare Enterprise

Multi-Region SRE Implementation & Observability Overhaul

Regional Healthcare Network, 14 Facilities

Challenge

A regional healthcare network experienced 4 incidents per month with 2+ hour MTTR, no centralized monitoring, no defined SLOs, and incidents discovered only through user reports. Patient care workflows were disrupted by recurring outages. HIPAA risk exposure from system unavailability was significant.

Approach

  • Defined SLOs for 22 critical services with error budgets and burn rate alerts
  • Deployed Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry across all 14 facilities
  • Built custom NOC, engineering, and executive Grafana dashboards
  • Configured PagerDuty with intelligent routing and automated runbook triggers
  • Created 40+ automated remediation runbooks covering top incident categories
  • Introduced chaos engineering with Chaos Monkey to expose failure modes proactively

Outcome

Incidents dropped from 4 per month to fewer than 1. MTTR fell from 2 hours to 18 minutes. Availability across all 14 facilities reached 99.97%. The healthcare network passed its SOC 2 Type II audit with no findings related to availability or monitoring gaps.

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