Industries · Fintech
Ship financial software your auditors and customers both trust.
Landing zones designed around PCI-DSS and SOC 2 controls, evidence pipelines, and SRE practice that keeps payment systems boring.
Pain points we hear most often
Audit prep is a quarterly fire drill
Evidence collection across cloud accounts, code repos, and access systems takes weeks every cycle. We build evidence pipelines that produce auditor-ready packets continuously.
Latency-sensitive workloads at scale
Payment authorization, market data, and trading workloads demand p99 latency budgets that most generic stacks miss. We tune compute, networking, and storage tiers for the actual SLO.
Vendor and counterparty integration sprawl
Each integration adds attack surface and audit scope. Per-integration network isolation, audit logs, and access reviews keep scope manageable.
Who we work with in Fintech
Embedded-finance / payments platform
Need PCI-DSS scope minimization, tokenization, and reliable third-party integrations.
Wealth-tech and brokerage
Market-data ingestion, order-routing reliability, and SOC 2 + FINRA-aligned controls.
Bank IT modernization
Migrating regulated workloads to cloud while keeping audit, change-management, and segregation-of-duties intact.
Crypto / digital-asset infrastructure
Hot/cold wallet architecture, key management, and on-chain monitoring with the same operational rigor as TradFi.
Services we apply here
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DevOps Consulting
Accelerate delivery with proven DevOps practice.
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Cloud Migration
Move to the cloud without rewriting your business.
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SRE Consulting
Build the reliability practice — SLOs, runbooks, on-call discipline. Your team owns it when we leave.
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Infrastructure Audit
Two-week broad assessment — cost, reliability, delivery, ops. CFO-ready.
Frequently asked questions
How do you minimize PCI scope? +
Tokenization vaults at the edge, isolated subnets for cardholder-data environments, and aggressive segmentation. The goal is fewer systems in scope, not stronger controls on more systems.
Can you help with SOC 2 Type II readiness? +
Yes. We focus on the technical controls (CC6, CC7, CC8 most often) and partner with your auditor for the policy side. Typical readiness window is 4–6 months from engagement start.
What's your stance on multi-region for fintech? +
Active-passive is the default; we help design the failover, run the drill, and document the runbook. Active-active is justified for global trading platforms but adds significant operational cost.
How do you handle key management for payments? +
HSM-backed (AWS CloudHSM, Azure Dedicated HSM, GCP HSM) with key-rotation automation. We document the threat model and the recovery procedure.
Do you work with regulated banks? +
Yes — we have shipped infrastructure for tier-2 banks and challenger banks. Regulator engagement is the bank's responsibility; we provide technical evidence and design rationale.
How do you handle change management to satisfy SOX? +
Pull-request-based change management with required reviewers, automated test gates, and immutable deployment audit logs. Auditors typically accept this model with light additional documentation.
Can you help with FAPI or PSD2 integrations? +
Yes — Open Banking API gateway design, mTLS, and consent-management infrastructure. We've shipped FAPI-aligned API estates.
How do you control cloud spend in low-margin payments businesses? +
Tagging schema, per-merchant or per-counterparty cost attribution, and aggressive use of Spot for batch workloads. Typical FinOps savings 40–60% from a stock setup.
What about disaster recovery testing? +
Quarterly DR drills are part of the operating model we recommend — run as a tabletop exercise plus a partial failover. Documented and reviewed with risk and audit teams.
Can you support our crypto custody platform? +
Yes — we have shipped HSM-backed key infrastructure, hot-wallet rate limiting, and on-chain monitoring tied to SLOs.
How do you handle regulator data-access requests? +
Audit-log infrastructure designed for query, export, and chain-of-custody. We document the procedure and rehearse it.
Do you have fintech references? +
Yes — typically two on the discovery call, matched to your sub-segment.