INDUSTRY
Financial Services
PRIMARY BUYER
Director of Platform Architecture
USE CASE
Platform
Engineering
Automation/IaC
Security &
DevOps
Automation
KEY OUTCOMES
30%
faster
deployments
250+
hours saved
quarterly
100%
policy
coverage
Executive Summary
A global financial data and media leader, faced operational bottlenecks as its platform engineering team manually reviewed thousands of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) changes annually. The manual process consumed over 10% of the team’s time, delaying deployments and diverting resources from strategic projects. By adopting Gomboc AI, the company automated IaC security and compliance checks, reduced the review workloads by 30%, and empowered developers to self-remediate misconfigurations.
Challenges
- Manual PR Reviews
15–20 daily IaC PRs created a backlog, with engineers spending hours validating Terraform, CloudFormation, and Puppet configurations. - Scalability Issues
With 3,000+ annual PRs across 1,000+ repositories, the platform engineering team struggled to maintain velocity, resulting in delayed product releases. - Knowledge Silos
Platform engineers’ expertise in secure IaC patterns was not codified, leading to repetitive feedback loops. - Security vs. Speed Trade-offs:
Manual reviews created friction between security rigor and DevOps agility.
The company sought a solution to:
Automate PR Reviews
Encode infrastructure policies into automated checks.
Scale Compliance
Support Terraform, CloudFormation, and Puppet out of the box.
Reduce Toil
Free platform engineers to focus on high-value tasks.
Why Gomboc AI?
- Out-of-the-Box Policy Intelligence
Pre-built rules for Terraform, CloudFormation, and Puppet aligned with their tech stack. - Developer-Centric Automation
Seamless integration with GitHub and GitLab PRs to provide real-time, auto-remediation guidance. - ROI Clarity
Gomboc’s ROI calculator projected 250+ hours saved quarterly by reducing manual reviews.
Solution
Gomboc AI integrated seamlessly into the company’s Git-driven DevOps pipeline:
- Automated Policy Enforcement
Pre-built and organization-specific security policies scanned cloud infrastructure for misconfigurations, reducing manual review workload. - Developer Self-Service
Engineers received real-time feedback in PRs, enabling faster fixes. - Centralized Visibility
A unified dashboard tracked compliance across 1,000+ repositories.
Results
Automate PR Reviews
Automated checks reduced platform engineers’ review time, enabling focus on high-value tasks.
250+ Engineering Hours Saved Quarterly
Freed time redirected to infrastructure optimization.
Scalable Compliance
Achieved 100% security policy coverage across Terraform and CloudFormation.
Deployment time under 3 weeks with no custom rules required across all the cloud infrastructure. Initial deployment took under 1 day with immediate value.
Security Shift-Left
Proactively resolved misconfigurations pre-deployment, reducing post-deployment incidents.
Future Roadmap
The company plans to:
Expand Gomboc to enforce custom policies for internal IaC standards.
Enable auto-approval for PRs passing Gomboc checks.
Integrate exception management to streamline risk acceptance workflows.