// Compliance & Security
HIPAA & FINRA-compliant infrastructure on GCP
A security-sensitive application needed regulator-grade infrastructure from day one. I architected a HIPAA/FINRA-compliant GCP environment with Pulumi — isolated workloads, managed secrets, TLS everywhere, and RBAC throughout.
Impact Metrics
HIPAA
+ FINRA compliant
100%
Infra as code (Pulumi)
0
Plaintext secrets / public workloads
Stack Applied
// Context & Background
A client was deploying a security-sensitive application subject to HIPAA and FINRA controls. The infrastructure had to be reproducible, auditable, and compliant from the very first deploy — not retrofitted later.
// The Challenge
Stand up a regulator-grade environment from scratch: encryption everywhere, network isolation, centralized secret management, and least-privilege access — all reproducible as code.
// The Roadmap & Approach
Compliant infrastructure as code with Pulumi
Architected and provisioned VPCs, GKE clusters, Cloud SQL, VM instances, and Cloud Storage buckets entirely through Pulumi — making the whole compliant environment reproducible.
Secure access and workload isolation
NetBird provided secure peer-to-peer access; Coolify handled isolated internal staging while production workloads stayed locked inside the GKE cluster.
Centralized secret management
Infisical and OpenBao managed every secret and credential — no plaintext secrets in code, in config, or in CI.
TLS and RBAC at the edge
Ingress resources exposed services with TLS termination and RBAC-based access controls, so every entry point was encrypted and authorized.
// Validated Results
- A fully HIPAA- and FINRA-compliant GCP environment, reproducible on demand
- Secrets centrally managed — zero plaintext credentials anywhere
- Production workloads isolated from staging and the public internet
- Every access path encrypted with TLS and gated by RBAC
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