I led the infrastructure migration for Easley Finance, moving from a manually managed Docker container to a fully automated AWS CloudFormation stack. The results exceeded expectations: a 30% reduction in costs, zero-downtime deployments, and 99.9% uptime.
The Legacy Problem
The startup relied on a single Docker container, manually deployed to a traditional hosting provider. Every update required SSH access, manual restarts, and a lot of hope. Scaling meant spinning up new servers by hand, and database backups were unreliable at best.
The CloudFormation Solution
I designed a multi-environment architecture using AWS CloudFormation templates, enabling the team to spin up identical infrastructure for development, staging, and production with a single command.