Case Studies

Results, not reports.

A selection of engagements where AfraTech delivered measurable, lasting outcomes for enterprise and mid-market clients.

01Cloud & InfrastructureFinancial Services

43% infrastructure cost reduction and 99.99% uptime for a payments platform serving 12 markets.

The Challenge

The client operated a monolithic cloud environment built during rapid growth — over-provisioned, under-monitored, and running on a single cloud provider with no meaningful disaster recovery capability. Infrastructure spend had grown 80% year-on-year while engineering velocity had stalled. A single regional outage had cost the business $2.1M in lost transaction volume and regulatory penalties.

The AfraTech Approach

We conducted a full infrastructure audit and cost analysis before writing a single line of code. The engagement delivered a phased migration to a multi-cloud architecture across AWS and Google Cloud, with Terraform-managed infrastructure, automated failover, and a FinOps governance framework. We embedded a principal engineer with the client's platform team throughout to ensure knowledge transfer and long-term ownership.

Reduction in monthly infrastructure spend: 43%
Platform uptime in the 12 months post-migration: 99.99%
Time to first measurable cost saving: 6 weeks
Annualised cost saving: $2.4M

AfraTech didn't just reduce our cloud bill — they gave us the architecture and the internal capability to keep it optimised. The engagement paid for itself in the first quarter.

CTO, Pan-African Payments Processor

02Cybersecurity & ComplianceHealthcare Technology

SOC 2 Type II certification achieved in 14 weeks for a Series B health-tech company handling patient data.

The Challenge

The client had secured a Series B round and was in advanced commercial discussions with three NHS trusts and two US health systems — all of which required SOC 2 Type II certification as a condition of contract. Their internal security posture was immature: no formal access controls, no incident response plan, and audit logging that covered less than 30% of their production environment. The board had set a 16-week deadline before the first enterprise contract would lapse.

The AfraTech Approach

We deployed a dedicated security principal from day one and ran a rapid gap analysis against all five Trust Services Criteria. The engagement covered control design and implementation, evidence collection tooling, policy documentation, staff security training, and full auditor liaison. We prioritised controls by audit risk rather than alphabetical order, which allowed us to reach a defensible posture weeks ahead of the formal audit window.

From engagement start to clean audit opinion: 14 weeks
Trust Services Criteria covered at audit: 100%
Enterprise contracts unblocked post-certification: 3
Contract value unlocked by certification: £4.2M

We had 16 weeks and a board breathing down our necks. AfraTech got us to a clean SOC 2 opinion in 14. The structured approach and the quality of the auditor relationship they brought made the difference.

VP Engineering, Digital Health Platform

03Custom Software StrategyLogistics & Supply Chain

Legacy monolith decomposed into 11 domain services — engineering deployment frequency increased 8×.

The Challenge

The client's core operations platform was a 14-year-old Java monolith that had become the single greatest constraint on the business. Deployments required a full regression cycle and a 4-hour maintenance window. A single team of 6 engineers owned the entire codebase, creating critical knowledge concentration risk. Three strategic product initiatives had been blocked for over 18 months because the architecture could not support them safely.

The AfraTech Approach

We ran a 3-week discovery and domain modelling exercise before any code was written, producing a bounded context map and a sequenced decomposition roadmap. The programme ran over 11 months, extracting domain services in priority order while keeping the monolith live throughout. We introduced event-driven integration patterns, a contract testing framework, and an architectural decision record process that the engineering team now owns independently.

Increase in deployment frequency: 8×
Domain services extracted from the monolith: 11
Production incidents during the migration programme: Zero
Previously blocked product initiatives now in production: 3

The decomposition roadmap AfraTech produced was the clearest technical plan we had seen in years. They delivered it without a single production incident — on a system that processes 40,000 shipments a day.

Head of Engineering, Pan-European Logistics Operator

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