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, built by one principal architect. It is the same path an MVP-to-Production engagement follows.
If your MVP is winning users faster than it is earning trust, the review is the place to start.
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United States
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