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Platform Engineering Transformation for a High-Growth SaaS Company

Building a scalable Internal Developer Platform that reduced infrastructure complexity, accelerated deployments, and improved developer productivity.

SaaS
150+ Employees
AWS
6 Weeks
4x
Faster Deployments
70%
Reduction in Deployment Failures
1 Day
Developer Onboarding
(Previously 7 Days)
<30 min
Infrastructure Provisioning
(Previously 3–5 Days)
80%
Reduction in Manual Platform Requests
99.9%
Platform Availability
Executive Summary

A rapidly growing SaaS company was experiencing increasing operational complexity as engineering teams expanded. Infrastructure provisioning relied on manual requests, deployment standards differed between teams, and onboarding new developers often took several days.

NirvahaTech designed and implemented a modern Platform Engineering foundation using Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and standardized deployment workflows. The new platform enabled self-service infrastructure provisioning, automated application delivery, and consistent engineering practices across all environments.

Within six weeks, the customer achieved faster software delivery, significantly reduced operational overhead, and established a scalable platform capable of supporting long-term business growth.

Customer Profile
Industry
SaaS
Employees
150+
Cloud Provider
AWS
Engineering Team
35 Developers
Applications
Microservices
Deployment Model
Kubernetes
Regions
Multi-AZ
Business Challenge

Where they were stuck

Business Challenges
  • Product releases were slowing as engineering teams expanded.
  • Platform engineers spent most of their time fulfilling infrastructure requests.
  • Every application used different deployment practices.
  • New engineers required up to one week to become productive.
  • Operational knowledge was concentrated within a few senior engineers.
Technical Challenges
  • Multiple Terraform repositories with duplicated code
  • No reusable infrastructure modules
  • Manual Kubernetes deployments
  • Inconsistent IAM permissions
  • Limited observability
  • No standardized CI/CD pipelines
  • Environment drift across Development, Staging, and Production
Objectives
Standardize infrastructureEnable self-service environmentsReduce deployment failuresImprove developer experienceIncrease deployment frequencyBuild reusable cloud architecture
Solution Overview

NirvahaTech implemented a complete Internal Developer Platform built around Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Kubernetes, and reusable engineering standards.

Standardized Terraform modules
Amazon EKS platform
GitHub Actions CI/CD
Helm-based deployments
Centralized logging
Monitoring dashboards
Infrastructure automation
Self-service developer workflows
Solution Architecture

How it all fits together

Developers
GitHub
GitHub
GitHub Actions CI/CD
GitHub Actions CI/CD
Docker Image Build
Docker Image Build
Amazon ECR
Amazon ECR
Amazon EKS Cluster
Amazon EKS Cluster
Ingress Controller
Ingress Controller
Services A · B · C
Services A · B · C
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
CloudWatch
CloudWatch
CloudTrail
CloudTrail
Prometheus
Prometheus
Grafana
Grafana
Slack Notifications
Slack Notifications
Implementation Timeline

6 Weeks, start to go-live

1
Week 1
Discovery Workshop
2
Week 2
Platform Architecture
3
Week 3
Infrastructure Modules
4
Week 4
Kubernetes Platform
5
Week 5
CI/CD & GitOps
6
Week 6
Migration & Go-Live
Technology Stack

What was actually used

Cloud
AWS
AWS
Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS
Amazon ECR
Amazon ECR
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora
IAM
IAM
CloudWatch
CloudWatch
Platform
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Helm
Helm
Terraform
Terraform
GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions
Docker
Docker
Observability
Prometheus
Prometheus
Grafana
Grafana
Loki
Loki
Business Outcomes

Before vs. after

Infrastructure Provisioning
3–5 Days<30 Minutes
Deployment Frequency
WeeklyMultiple Daily
Deployment Success Rate
88%99.7%
Developer Onboarding
7 Days1 Day
Platform Requests
40 / week<6 / week
Availability
95%99.9%
Engineering Highlights
Infrastructure as CodeGitOps DeliveryKubernetes Best PracticesSecurity by DesignPlatform EngineeringDeveloper Self-ServiceMulti-Environment StandardizationCloud Cost OptimizationObservabilityAutomated Deployments
Business Impact

The engineering organization transitioned from reactive infrastructure management to a modern platform engineering model. Developers could provision standardized environments independently, deployments became predictable and repeatable, and platform engineers shifted their focus from routine operational tasks to strategic improvements. The result was faster software delivery, greater platform reliability, and a scalable engineering foundation that supports future growth.

NirvahaTech didn't just automate our deployments — they built an engineering platform that transformed how our teams build, deploy, and operate software.

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