Security, DevOps & Infrastructure
The unglamorous work that keeps production software alive.
Not every project starts from scratch. Sometimes a previous team left, the deployment pipeline breaks every Friday, the codebase has not been touched in two years, or a security audit surfaced findings that no one knows how to remediate.
The work that keeps software running is unglamorous and usually undervalued. It is also the work that prevents incidents, protects customers, and lets the rest of the team focus on shipping features. We do this work as a primary discipline, not as something we tolerate between greenfield builds.
Security audits and remediation
We audit codebases, infrastructure, and operational practices against OWASP Top 10, CIS benchmarks, and the threat model that actually applies to your product. Findings come with severity, exploitability, and a remediation plan rather than a 200-page PDF.
Legacy code rescue
If a previous team left, the codebase has rotted, or the original developers cannot be reached, we triage. We figure out what works, what is dangerous, and what to rewrite, and we deliver a plan that prioritizes business continuity over rewrite ambition.
CI/CD and containerization
We build deployment pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or whatever you already use, with automated tests, security scans, accessibility audits, and promotion between environments. Applications are packaged with Docker and orchestrated on Kubernetes or simpler container hosts depending on your operational maturity. Reliability comes from automating the steps humans get wrong, and we have a strong bias against complexity that does not earn its keep, so we will tell you when K8s is the wrong answer.
Cloud and bare-metal infrastructure
The infrastructure choices are based on what the workload actually needs. AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure cover immediate horizontal scale, specific managed services, and regional compliance or data residency requirements, and we have shipped production systems on all three. Providers like Hetzner often give better price-to-performance when scale and managed services are not the priority. When a fully self-hosted deployment is the right answer, our team can travel on-site to install and configure the hardware.
Observability and incident response
When production breaks, the question is how fast someone notices. We build monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing with whatever stack fits your environment, including Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and the commercial equivalents, so an on-call engineer can follow a failing request across services and fix the actual cause. The runbooks we leave behind turn a 3am page into a routine response rather than a panic.
LLMOps and AI observability
LLM-backed features need ops as much as traditional services, with different failure modes. We instrument token consumption, per-query cost, latency, and answer quality degradation, with alerts that fire before the bill or the UX surprises you. If you already have an AI feature running unsupervised in production, we come in and wrap the observability, rate limiting, and incident playbooks it should have had from the start.
Triage and assessment
1 to 2 weeksWe review the codebase, infrastructure, and operational practices to identify the highest-risk issues and the highest-leverage fixes. Output is a prioritized plan with effort estimates, not a wishlist.
Stabilize first
VariableIf production is on fire, we stop the bleeding before we start improving. The work that prevents the next outage takes precedence over the work that improves the next sprint.
Modernize and harden
VariableOnce stable, we work through the remediation plan: pipeline modernization, security fixes, observability gaps, infrastructure improvements. Each change ships independently rather than in a giant rewrite.
Handover and ongoing support
OngoingWe document the work, train your team, and offer ongoing retainers if you want continued support. We are equally happy to hand off completely once the system is in good shape.
Our infrastructure has supported platforms managing over $20 million USD in deposited funds across DeFi protocols with zero successful exploits. Self-hosted blockchain nodes have run for multiple years across Canada and Europe. CI/CD pipelines we built power teams that ship daily without breaking production.
We have rescued stalled projects where the previous team left and the codebase needed someone willing to read it carefully and figure out what was real.
Containerization with Docker. Orchestration on Kubernetes, Docker Compose, or Nomad depending on operational complexity. Infrastructure-as-code in Terraform. CI/CD on GitHub Actions or GitLab CI. Monitoring stacks built on Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Sentry.
Security tooling includes OWASP ZAP, SonarQube, and dependency-scanning integrated into CI rather than run as one-time exercises. Database operations cover PostgreSQL tuning, migration discipline, and schema evolution under load.
Can you take over a project from a previous team?
Yes. We have done several rescue engagements where a previous team left and the codebase needed someone willing to read it carefully and figure out what was real. We approach these with no judgment about the prior work and a focus on what needs to happen next.
Do you do penetration testing?
We do code-level security audits and infrastructure reviews. For formal penetration testing with attestation we work with established pentest firms and remediate the findings.
What does an engagement cost?
Audit and triage engagements are fixed-scope and typically run one to two weeks. Remediation and modernization work is billed time-and-materials with weekly check-ins so you can adjust priorities as we go.
Can you operate the infrastructure for us?
Yes. We offer ongoing infrastructure operation including monitoring, on-call response, and routine maintenance. This is how several of our DeFi protocol clients have operated for years.
What if the existing code is really bad?
We have seen worse. Almost no codebase is beyond rescue if there is a clear business reason to keep it. We will tell you honestly if rewrite is the better path.
Who owns the infrastructure-as-code?
You do. Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes manifests, Dockerfiles, and runbooks are delivered as we build so your team can operate the system without us.
Need to fix, modernize, or stabilize?
Tell us what is broken. We will tell you what it takes to fix it.