Client engagements

Case studies

Real-world infrastructure engagements across cloud migration, cost optimization, security hardening, and DevOps automation. Client details anonymized.

01 / Case study

E-Commerce Platform: Cloud Migration to AWS

Challenge

Mid-size e-commerce company running on shared hosting. Frequent downtime during traffic spikes, no redundancy, 4-6 hour recovery times after outages. Black Friday events caused complete site failures.

Solution

  • Designed multi-AZ AWS architecture with EC2 auto-scaling
  • RDS Multi-AZ for database high availability
  • CloudFront CDN for static asset delivery
  • S3 for media storage with lifecycle policies
  • ElastiCache for session management
  • Route 53 health-checked DNS failover

Outcome

99.99%Uptime (from 97.2%)
60%Faster page loads
45%Lower hosting costs
0Peak event failures
02 / Case study

Financial Services Firm: Security Hardening & Compliance

Challenge

Fintech startup handling payment data needed to pass PCI DSS Level 1 compliance audit. Existing infrastructure had no formal security controls, shared root access, unencrypted data at rest, and no audit logging.

Solution

  • Deployed FreeBSD servers with jail isolation for each service
  • pf firewall with strict ingress/egress rules
  • Full-disk encryption for data at rest
  • Centralized audit logging across all systems
  • SSH key-only access with MFA enforcement
  • Automated security patching pipeline
  • 24/7 intrusion detection monitoring

Outcome

PCI DSS L1Certified first attempt
0Security incidents (18 mo)
100%Audit trail coverage
4 minMean time to detect
03 / Case study

Digital Media Company: Cloud Cost Optimization

Challenge

Growing media company with AWS bill exceeding $450K/year. Dozens of oversized EC2 instances, orphaned EBS volumes, unused Elastic IPs, and no reserved instance planning. Engineering team had no visibility into cost drivers.

Solution

  • Full billing audit and resource inventory
  • Right-sized 34 EC2 instances based on utilization data
  • Removed 47 orphaned resources (EBS, EIPs, snapshots)
  • Implemented Savings Plans for steady-state workloads
  • Configured S3 Intelligent-Tiering for media assets
  • Built real-time cost dashboard with budget alerting

Outcome

42%Cost reduction
$189K/yrAnnual savings
0Performance degradation
FullCost visibility
04 / Case study

SaaS Platform: DevOps Automation & CI/CD

Challenge

SaaS company deploying via manual SSH-and-copy process. Deployments took 4 hours, required a senior engineer, and caused 15-30 minutes of downtime per release. Team was shipping once every two weeks due to deployment friction.

Solution

  • Built automated CI/CD pipeline with staged environments (dev, staging, production)
  • Automated testing gates at each pipeline stage
  • Blue-green deployments with instant rollback capability
  • Infrastructure provisioned via Terraform
  • Configuration management via Ansible

Outcome

12 minDeploy time (from 4 hrs)
0Downtime per release
DailyDeployment capability
85%Fewer deploy incidents
05 / Case study

Manufacturing Company: Legacy Datacenter Modernization

Challenge

Manufacturing company running critical ERP and inventory systems on aging on-premises servers. Hardware reaching end-of-life with no spare parts available. Single points of failure throughout. No disaster recovery capability.

Solution

  • Designed hybrid cloud architecture for workload distribution
  • Latency-sensitive workloads migrated to new dedicated servers with FreeBSD and ZFS
  • Reporting and analytics moved to AWS
  • Automated ZFS snapshots for backup and point-in-time recovery
  • CARP failover for high availability on dedicated servers
  • Cross-site replication for disaster recovery

Outcome

3xCompute capacity
4-hr RPORecovery point objective
48%Cost reduction
7+ yrsHardware lifecycle

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