Financial Services · 2024
Platform engineering that took a fintech from monthly to daily releases
22×
deployment frequency
- Client
- Payments fintech (demo)
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Services
- DevOps & Automation, Cybersecurity
- Year
- 2024
01 Project overview
A payments company needed to accelerate delivery while satisfying PCI DSS and partner bank audits.
02 Business challenge
- Releases required a two-day change advisory process and weekend deployments.
- Inconsistent environments caused frequent production incidents.
- Auditors requested evidence that was gathered manually each quarter.
03 Solution architecture
How it was built.
Pipelines
Reusable CI templates with SAST, SCA, secrets scanning and signed artifacts.
Delivery
GitOps with canary releases and automated rollback on SLO breach.
Platform
Self-service developer portal with golden-path service templates.
Compliance
Policy-as-code and automated evidence collection for PCI DSS.
Technologies used
- GitHub Actions
- Kubernetes
- Argo Rollouts
- Backstage
- OPA
- Terraform
- Grafana
04 Implementation approach
Delivered in clear phases.
- 01 · Baseline
DORA metrics, value-stream mapping and control inventory.
- 02 · Platform
Golden paths built with two pilot teams, then scaled across 14 teams.
- 03 · Enable
Coaching, documentation and SRE practices embedded in teams.
05 Results & impact
- Deployment frequency
- 22×
- Change failure rate
- -74%
- Mean time to recovery
- 11 min
- New service to production (from 6 weeks)
- 3 days
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lower infrastructure cost
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