Cloud Native Development

Fair question, and here's how we've de-risked that: the engagement starts with a fixed-price discovery sprint, so your exposure is capped and you keep every artifact regardless. The specific people on this team have delivered named systems individually, and all code and infrastructure live in your repositories from day one.

Bench and continuity are contractual: named alternates, key-personnel substitution terms, and paired work with documented decisions in your repo every sprint. The transition package is built continuously, not at the end.

It's the established pattern at USCIS, CMS, VA, GSA, and across DoD's software factories, the risk profile has inverted: big-bang waterfall replacement is the documented failure mode. We also scope the first build to a bounded, lower-risk system on purpose.

Compare cost per outcome, not per hour: a five-person senior team at our blended rate delivers working software faster than a fifteen-person pyramid at a lower headline rate. We commit to reporting delivery metrics, deployment frequency, lead time, so you can see it.

The opposite is contractual: your repos, your cloud accounts, your pipeline, unlimited or government-purpose rights in the custom code, and a transition package as a standing deliverable. We win recompetes by performance, not by hostage-taking.

No, a lifted-and-shifted monolith running in AWS is cloud-hosted, not cloud native, and it exhibits none of the benefits being bought here. Cloud native means small services, containers, infrastructure as code, and an automated pipeline built from the start.

Nothing makes an ATO automatic. The architecture makes the evidence cheaper and the assessment faster, the authorization decision remains the Authorizing Official's.