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Cutting deploy lead time from days to minutes for a regional fintech

Replaced a fragile Jenkins-on-VMs pipeline with GitOps on EKS, hardened with policy-as-code and progressive delivery.

Client: A Riyadh-based digital bank

Challenge

What we walked into

Two-week change cycles, frequent rollback emergencies, and weekend-only deployment windows that capped product velocity. Compliance evidence was assembled by hand for every release.

Approach

How we engaged

  • Migrated 40+ microservices to a GitOps platform on EKS with Argo CD and Argo Rollouts
  • Replaced ad-hoc Jenkins jobs with reusable shared libraries and ephemeral build agents
  • Wired SAST/SCA/IaC scanning into PR checks with automated remediation suggestions
  • Introduced canary deploys and SLO-based progressive rollback
  • Automated SOC 2 evidence collection straight from the pipeline
Results

What changed

Deploy lead time
from 9 days to 12 minutes
Change-failure rate
11% → 2.4%
MTTR
4h → 22m
Audit prep effort
−85%

We went from dreading release Fridays to shipping on demand. Their team operates as part of ours.

Head of Platform · Digital banking

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This case study is an illustrative, anonymized representation of recent client work.