Compliant GCP architecture for a KSA FinTech

Our role is to be a product-focused consulting partner, not just an order-taker. We believe in finding "the better way" to achieve your goals - simpler, safer, and faster.

During this project migration, we frequently proposed alternative approaches for rollout plans and data handling. This proactive guidance reduced rework, removed roadblocks for their development team, and ultimately kept the project roadmap on schedule.

We establish a proactive security posture by integrating automated checks and best practices directly into the development lifecycle. Security isn't a final step; it's a continuous process.

We integrated container image and dependency scanning directly into the CI pipeline, enforced CIS controls as a minimum baseline, and tightened secrets management.

Regular reviews of this automated system allowed us to catch policy gaps and configuration drift early, preventing compliance misses and production surprises.

Through a disciplined FinOps practice that provides visibility and aligns resource usage directly with demand. Our goal is to eliminate waste and prevent surprise bills.

We achieved a 35% operational cost reduction for this client by implementing several key controls:

• establishing consistent tagging for unit economics;
• setting budget alerts;
• creating spend visibility dashboards.

We then tuned right-sizing and autoscaling rules to ensure resource allocation matched real-time demand precisely.

It's a multi-layered defense that controls traffic at every level, from the public internet down to individual services. We standardize this design to reduce credential sprawl and minimize the attack surface.

Our approach involved creating a standard VPC design with private service access and controlled egress. 

Cloudflare was used to front all public entry points, with WAF rules and rate limits tuned for their specific traffic.

For internal traffic, we implemented service-to-service authentication and workload identity to ensure secure communication between components.

By turning the DR document into a practiced, validated capability. We achieve this through regular, hands-on recovery drills.

We start by setting clear backup policies and defining RPO/RTO targets for databases and critical state.

Then, we conduct regular restore rehearsals to validate the entire recovery path, from infrastructure re-provisioning via Terraform to data restoration.

These drills ensure that in a real emergency, the recovery process is a familiar, proven procedure, not a theoretical one.