From MVP to Production
Your prototype proved the idea. Now it needs to survive real customers.
The wall every MVP hits
Many teams arrive with a working MVP, often built fast, sometimes AI-generated, that wins its first users and then hits a wall: security gaps, fragile deployments, unpredictable cloud costs, no monitoring, no path to compliance. I take systems across that wall.
The engagement hardens an MVP into a production-grade platform on Azure: a security and architecture review, authentication done properly (Entra ID), infrastructure as code (Bicep), CI/CD with automated tests, observability and cost control, data protection and compliance readiness (HIPAA/GDPR where relevant), and the scalability work your growth actually requires, delivered in prioritized stages so the product keeps shipping while it hardens.
What hardening covers
Security and architecture review
Threat surface, secrets handling, tenancy and data isolation, dependency and supply-chain hygiene.
Authentication done properly
Microsoft Entra ID (or Entra External ID for customer-facing apps), replacing hand-rolled login and long-lived tokens.
Infrastructure as code
The whole environment described in Bicep, reproducible across dev, staging, and production.
CI/CD with automated tests
GitHub Actions pipelines, build gates, and repeatable deployments instead of manual pushes.
Observability and cost control
Application Insights, alerting, and spend that is measured and predictable rather than discovered on the invoice.
Data protection and compliance readiness
Key Vault, encryption, retention and audit trails, and a defensible posture for HIPAA or GDPR where relevant.
Scalability work your growth actually requires
Sized to real traffic and real data, not to a hypothetical scale you will never reach.
How the engagement is structured
Production Readiness Review
The entry point, fixed in scope and price: prioritized findings across security, reliability, cost, and compliance, with a staged remediation plan you can act on with or without me.
Hands-on hardening sprints
I do the work, not just the report. Findings are cleared in prioritized stages so the product keeps shipping while the platform hardens underneath it.
Fractional architecture oversight
Optional after go-live: recurring days per month keeping architecture decisions, Azure governance, and cost discipline on track as the product grows.
I have done this end-to-end
TheraDesk went from concept to a regulated, multi-country healthtech SaaS in production: architecture, backend, frontends, infrastructure, billing, and compliance, designed and built end to end by Eric Imhauser. It is the same path an MVP-to-Production engagement follows.
→read the TheraDesk case studyIf your MVP is winning users faster than it is earning trust, the review is the place to start.
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Imhauser Technologies
McLean, VA
United States
Available on-site across the DC metro, Tysons, Reston, Arlington, and Washington, DC, as well as hybrid and remote worldwide.