Case Studies

Real examples of how Helioforge helped organizations build platforms that changed how they operate.

Threshold Logistics

Modernizing shipment-planning platform and cloud infrastructure

Challenge

Threshold is a regional logistics company with 150+ employees managing shipment planning for customers across the Midwest. Their core platform ran on aging infrastructure: a combination of on-premise servers, legacy hosted environments, and hastily-provisioned AWS accounts. Deployments took weeks, required manual coordination, and frequently broke in production. Their engineering team was spending more time fighting infrastructure than building features.

Our Approach

  • → Assessed current infrastructure and deployment pain points
  • → Designed a landing zone on AWS with multi-account strategy
  • → Implemented IaC (Terraform) for all infrastructure
  • → Built CI/CD pipeline for reproducible deployments
  • → Deployed Kubernetes for containerized workloads
  • → Established monitoring, logging, and SLOs

Results

  • ✓ 55% faster deployments — from weeks to days
  • ✓ 28% cost reduction through optimization and rightsizing
  • ✓ 95% fewer manual interventions in deployments
  • ✓ 12-week engagement with full handoff to internal team

Timeline

Week 1-2
Assess current infrastructure, identify pain points, document architecture goals
Week 3-4
Design landing zone, multi-account strategy, and deployment pipeline
Week 5-10
Implement infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline, Kubernetes cluster, and monitoring
Week 11-12
Knowledge transfer, documentation, operational readiness, full handoff

"Helioforge didn't just hand us infrastructure—they built it with us. We have fewer outages, clearer ownership, and a platform our teams actually understand and can extend. The handoff was the first consulting engagement that actually stuck."

David Chen, VP Engineering, Threshold Logistics

Meridian Healthcare Services

Standardizing cloud governance across regulated healthcare environments

Challenge

Meridian is a multi-location healthcare administration company managing patient data across HIPAA-regulated environments. They had grown to 300+ employees across 8 regional offices, each with separate AWS accounts and inconsistent security practices. Compliance audits were nightmares. Cost visibility was nonexistent. New offices took months to provision compliant environments.

Our Approach

  • → Designed HIPAA-compliant landing zone architecture
  • → Centralized identity, logging, and audit trails
  • → Built IaC for repeatable, compliant environment provisioning
  • → Implemented cost allocation and governance policies
  • → Created automated compliance checking
  • → Trained operations team on governance and compliance

Results

  • ✓ 18 days to compliant landing zone (vs. 6+ months previously)
  • ✓ 100% compliance with audit controls across all environments
  • ✓ 35% reduction in audit prep time
  • ✓ 20% cost savings through optimization and standardization

Timeline

Week 1-2
Assess current environment, compliance gaps, and operational challenges
Week 3-4
Design HIPAA-compliant architecture with centralized governance
Week 5-14
Implement landing zones, IaC, compliance automation, cost governance
Week 15-16
Migrate existing environments, train operations team, document procedures

"Compliance is no longer something we dread. It's built into how we provision environments. The team now spins up a new office's infrastructure in a weekend. That's a capability we didn't have before."

Sarah Park, CTO, Meridian Healthcare Services

Compass Industrial Software

Reducing release friction through internal developer platform and CI/CD

Challenge

Compass is a B2B software provider serving industrial manufacturing with a suite of SaaS products. They had grown to 80+ engineers across 3 product teams, but releases were brittle and slow. Each team had its own deployment process. Infrastructure knowledge was scattered. Incidents required multiple handoffs. New engineers spent weeks getting productive.

Our Approach

  • → Assessed deployment and incident processes
  • → Designed internal developer platform with self-service deployment
  • → Built unified CI/CD pipeline with automated testing
  • → Deployed Kubernetes for consistent application environments
  • → Implemented observability and incident response practices
  • → Created documentation and runbooks

Results

  • ✓ 67% faster deployments — from hours to minutes
  • ✓ 5x reduction in production incidents related to deployments
  • ✓ 50% reduction in onboarding time for new engineers
  • ✓ 14-week engagement with ongoing support for 4 weeks

Timeline

Week 1-2
Assess deployment processes, incident handling, and team workflow
Week 3-4
Design developer platform and unified CI/CD architecture
Week 5-12
Build CI/CD pipeline, developer portal, Kubernetes platform, observability
Week 13-14+
Rollout to product teams, training, incident response drills, handoff

"Our deployment process is now a competitive advantage. We can ship features with confidence. The platform handles the complexity so our engineers can focus on building product, not managing infrastructure."

Jennifer Woo, VP Engineering, Compass Industrial Software

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