Production readiness · agentic delivery · security testing
You shipped fast. We make it safe to keep shipping fast.
We install the system your product scales on — environments, gates, tests, rollback. We keep agent-written code reviewable. We break into your app before someone else does. Then we hand you the keys.
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Case study
Contract-to-close platform for Texas transaction coordinators.SDLC DevOps
01 — The plan
The plan: diagnose, install, hand off
- 01
Diagnostic week
We read your codebase, map your deploy path, and find where a bad release actually hurts. You get a written findings report and a fixed-scope plan — useful even if you never hire us.
- 02
Foundations
Environments, branch protection, PR flow, CI. Riskiest gaps first. You keep shipping throughout.
- 03
Test depth + release safety
Tests around your real flows. Migration sync, flags, smoke checks, observability, runbooks. Then the drill: you roll back a broken release on purpose, with us in the room.
- 04
Handoff
Documented, tunable, rehearsed. Yours.
You operate everything, with the option to extend.
Every runbook is written for your team and every gate is yours to tune. If you want more after handoff — a retainer, deeper coverage, new features — that's your call, not a dependency.
02 — Where you probably are
Your product is real. Your release process is you.
Shipping straight to prod is how you got here. Then the product started carrying revenue and the process didn't change. If most of these sound familiar, you're who we built this for:
Every deploy goes straight to prod.
No staging. New code meets real users first.
main is the only branch that matters.
Nothing blocks a push. Nothing reviews a change.
The test suite is you, clicking around.
No unit tests, no integration tests, nothing checking that one tenant can’t read another’s data.
Releases live in your head.
What’s safe to ship, and what to do when it breaks, isn’t written down.
Rollback is a theory.
You’ve never rehearsed one. The first drill will be a real incident.
Schema changes are hand-run.
Migrations aren’t versioned, so the database and the code drift apart.
You didn't build it wrong. The product outgrew the process. The fix is installation, not a rewrite.
03 — Engagement one: SDLC DevOps
What we install: SDLC DevOps
For products that outgrew solo speed. Fixed scope, built around the codebase you have — not a replatform. Every item below is yours to operate from day one.
environments
Environment separation
Dev, staging, prod. Code meets a copy of production before it meets your users.
branch protection
Branch protection + PR-only merges
Direct pushes to main are rejected. Every change gets one AI review and one human review.
ci gates
CI gates
Typecheck, lint, and build on every PR. Broken code can’t merge.
tests
Automated testing
Unit, integration, and tenant-isolation tests that prove one customer can’t read another’s data.
migrations
Schema + migration sync
Migrations versioned, reviewed, and deployed with the code. No hand-run SQL.
runbooks
Release + rollback runbooks
Written procedures, capped with a drill: we break a deploy, you roll it back.
flags + smoke
Smoke tests + feature flags
Bad releases caught in minutes. Risky changes ship dark until you turn them on.
observability
Observability
Errors, logs, and analytics wired so dashboards tell you before customers do.
04 — Engagement two: SDLC Harness
For companies putting agents to work
For teams that already have engineers. Your developers use coding agents whether or not there's a policy, and the output arrives faster than review, testing, and deploys can absorb. We make agent-written code safe to merge, and the volume boring to ship.
agent context
Repos agents can read
AGENTS.md, conventions, and task templates in the repo, so every agent starts with your team’s context.
spec → PR
Spec-driven workflow
Work enters as a spec and leaves as a pull request your team already knows how to judge.
review gates
AI review + human review
No agent merges its own work.
sandboxes
Sandboxed agent runs
Isolated environments, short-lived credentials, no standing production access.
infra as code
Infrastructure as code
Infra changes arrive as diffs you review, not console clicks nobody saw.
pipelines
Release + rollback automation
Deploys, migrations, smoke checks, rollbacks. Same audit trail for a human, a cron, or an agent.
agent telemetry
Output + cost visibility
Merge rates, revert rates, review load, token spend. Adoption as a number, not a vibe.
enablement
Team enablement
Working sessions so the workflow survives after we leave.
05 — Engagement three: security + compliance
Find the holes before someone else does
Your first real security review shouldn’t be a customer’s questionnaire, and it shouldn’t be a breach. We test your application the way an attacker would, then fix what we find.
- 01
Assessment
Fixed price, scoped on a call. You get a severity-ranked report: how we got in, what it costs you, how to fix it. Yours whether or not you hire us for phase two.
- 02
Remediation
We implement the fixes, highest severity first, and retest each one when it closes. You end with a clean retest report you can show a customer or an auditor.
What we test
black-box test
Black-box penetration test
We start with what an attacker starts with: your public URL. Including the logic abuse scanners never find.
authenticated test
Authenticated + role testing
Credentials for every role, then we try to become something we shouldn’t.
tenant isolation
Tenant isolation + access control
Whether one customer can reach another’s records by ID, by API, or through a gap in row-level security.
injection + api
Injection, API abuse, OWASP Top 10
Tested against your real endpoints, not a checklist.
supply chain
Dependencies + leaked secrets
Vulnerable packages, over-scoped tokens, credentials sitting in git history.
cloud config
Cloud + infrastructure review
Public buckets, permissive network rules, unencrypted backups, over-broad access policies.
compliance map
Compliance readiness
Findings mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA controls. We prepare you for an audit; we are not your auditor.
remediation
Remediation engagement
The optional second phase: we fix what we found, in priority order, and retest.
Testing runs under signed authorization and written rules of engagement: agreed targets and windows, no destructive payloads against production, criticals reported the moment we find them.
06 — The team
Who shows up
Pengbo IO is senior engineers and architects, led by Pengbo Ma, sized to your engagement. No account managers, no juniors learning on your codebase. The people on the intro call are the people in your repo.
We do one thing: take software built at speed, usually AI-accelerated, and make it production-grade without slowing it down. No rewrite pitch, no framework migration. Every gate we install is judged by one standard — does it catch real failures without taxing your ability to ship today.
Fixed scope, no hourly meters. Success means your team runs the whole thing without us.
07 — FAQ
Questions founders ask
Won’t all this process slow me down?
No. CI runs in minutes, AI review is instant, and human review is scoped to real risk, not style debates. What actually slows you down is an incident with no staging, no tests, and no rollback plan.
Can I keep shipping during the engagement?
Yes, and that’s a hard requirement of how we phase the work. We install around your live development, so you keep deploying the whole time.
What do you need from me?
Repo access, deploy credentials, and a few hours a week — mostly reviewing PRs with us and being there for the recovery drill. We do the installation; you stay the expert on your product.
We already have an engineering team. Which engagement is ours?
SDLC Harness, the agentic one. SDLC DevOps assumes there’s no process yet; you have process, it just wasn’t designed for the volume of code agents now produce. The diagnostic week tells you if you need some of both.
Is the security assessment a real test or just a scan?
A real test, run by people. Scanning is where we start, but the findings that matter are the ones a scanner can’t reach: one tenant reaching another’s records, a role that escalates itself, a checkout flow that replays. Every finding ships with reproduction steps, and we retest after the fix.
Why not just hire a full-time senior engineer?
You probably should, eventually. But a great hire takes months to find and months to ramp, and one engineer building CI, test infrastructure, migration tooling, and runbooks alone is a year of work. We install it in a fraction of that, then hand it off — and your future hire walks into a codebase with guardrails already there.
08 — Get in touch
Make production boring.
30 or 60 minutes, your pick. We'll ask how you ship today and tell you honestly whether the diagnostic week is worth your money. You'll leave with at least one thing to fix either way.
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Write to us
A few sentences about your product and how you deploy today is plenty.
or email pengbo.dev@gmail.com