What began as a short-term engagement evolved into a long-term partnership, with the contract extended multiple times over 2.5 years—a testament to the trust, results, and collaboration built with the client.
Keyhole Software partnered with a leading national engineering consulting firm to modernize and expand its Security Dashboard application—a mission-critical platform that consolidates security data into a unified, actionable view. The engagement focused on improving performance, scalability, and usability through cloud-native modernization and full-stack enhancements.
Our Approach
Keyhole engineers led a comprehensive modernization initiative, improving both the user experience and backend infrastructure. The team delivered new functionality, transitioned the system to a modular architecture, and introduced automation to enhance deployment speed and reliability.
Key Highlights
- Front-End Enhancements: Optimized the React + Next.js interface for faster performance and a more intuitive user experience.
- Secure Authentication: Integrated AWS Cognito to provide secure, scalable identity management.
- Backend Modernization: Expanded and improved Python/Django API endpoints to increase reliability and integration flexibility.
- Microservices Architecture: Refactored a legacy monolithic Django system into modular FastAPI microservices, improving scalability and shortening release cycles.
- Automated Testing & CI/CD: Implemented Cypress, GitHub Actions, and Megalinter to automate testing, enforce code quality, and streamline deployments.
- Cloud File Management: Integrated Amazon S3 with React for seamless document upload, download, and deletion workflows.
- Custom Rich Text Editor: Designed and implemented a Lexical-based editor to enhance communication between users and analysts.
- Maintainability Improvements: Refactored older, tightly coupled front-end components into modular, reusable code to improve performance and simplify future updates.
Results
The modernized Security Dashboard delivered faster releases, improved system reliability, and a significantly enhanced user experience—empowering the client’s security teams to act on insights more efficiently.
The engagement proved so successful that the contract was extended multiple times, with the Keyhole consultant remaining with the client for over 2.5 years. The partnership concluded only due to organizational budget constraints, following a long-term record of strong collaboration and measurable results.
“A long-term modernization partnership that streamlined performance, improved reliability, and delivered measurable impact.”
