On-Demand Environment Platform
Context
Shared staging environment causing daily conflicts between 15+ teams, challenging data consistency, feature flag collisions, blocking releases and creating several-day testing bottlenecks for critical features and decreased confidence in work being rolled out.
Action
Architected self-service platform for ephemeral EKS environments provisioned via CI/CD. Managed costs by adopting a spot-instance strategy and sleeping environment strategy, Implemented dynamic DNS, ingress routing, and ArgoCD application filtering. Built webhook broadcaster for external event mirroring across environments. Added intelligent resource management with auto-teardown and cost controls.
Result
Any engineer can run a single-line command to create an isolated environemnt with production-like data in 2 minutes. Eliminated environment conflicts saving 30+ hours weekly per team. Reduced feature testing time from 3 days to 2 hours. Enabled parallel testing of 20+ features simultaneously.