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Cloud infrastructure for regulated industries

Compliance-grade cloud infrastructure for regulated industries.

We build scalable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, and AI infrastructure for organizations that cannot afford to ship anything else. Lead specialization in healthcare and defense, with active practices in financial services, legal, mortgage and real estate, and B2B SaaS. AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI.

Cited by Google AI Overview + 9 Bing AI citations on HIPAA CI/CD compliance queries
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Stack & Certifications
◆AWS Certified
◆GCP Professional
◆HIPAA-Aligned
◆FedRAMP Experience
◆SOC 2 Practitioners
◆Kubernetes & Terraform
01 — The Problem

Regulated industries pay for engineering twice. Once to ship, once to comply.

Healthcare and defense engineering teams are stuck between two pressures: ship fast enough to compete, prove compliance hard enough to sell. Most cloud consultancies optimize for one or the other. We build infrastructure that does both at the same time, by making compliance a property of the platform instead of an audit at the end.

A

Audit cycles eat the roadmap

Every release becomes a manual evidence collection exercise. Engineers stop shipping because compliance becomes the bottleneck.

B

Generic DevOps misses the controls

Standard CI/CD templates assume open infrastructure. They miss the controls a HITRUST or FedRAMP auditor will ask about on day one.

C

AI workloads multiply the surface area

Model training pipelines, vector stores, and inference endpoints expand the compliance footprint faster than security teams can keep up.

02 — Services

Four engineering capabilities, built compliance-aware from day one.

Every engagement is delivered by senior engineers with direct experience in regulated environments. Each service is available as a fixed-fee build, an audit-and-roadmap engagement, or an ongoing managed retainer.

S/01 — INFRASTRUCTURE

Scalable Cloud Infrastructure

Production-grade infrastructure designed to scale from your first customer to your largest enterprise contract, codified in Terraform and reproducible across environments. Multi-region, multi-account, multi-tenant patterns when you need them.

  • Terraform module librariesIaC
  • Multi-account governance & landing zonesOrg
  • Network segmentation & private connectivityVPC
  • Compliance baselines (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2)Sec
  • Cost optimization & right-sizingFinOps
Explore HIPAA Cloud Architecture Explore FedRAMP Cloud Architecture
S/02 — DELIVERY

CI/CD Pipeline Engineering

Build pipelines that auditors love and engineers actually want to use. Evidence collection, artifact signing, SBOM generation, and policy gates baked in, without slowing the deployment frequency that earns your team its keep.

  • GitLab CI/CD & GitHub ActionsPipeline
  • Argo CD & GitOps deploymentsCD
  • Policy-as-code (OPA, Kyverno)Gov
  • SBOM, signing, & supply chain securitySLSA
  • Automated compliance evidenceAudit
Explore HIPAA-Compliant CI/CD
S/03 — PLATFORM

Kubernetes Platform Engineering

Production Kubernetes that holds up in regulated environments. EKS, GKE, AKS, and OKE clusters built with the security posture, multi-tenancy isolation, and observability your auditors will inspect.

  • Cluster architecture & upgrade strategyK8s
  • Service mesh & zero-trust networkingMesh
  • Pod security, RBAC, & secret managementSec
  • Cost attribution & FinOps for clustersCost
  • SRE practices & incident responseOps
Explore Kubernetes Platform Engineering
S/04 — AI INFRASTRUCTURE

AI Infrastructure & MLOps

The data and model infrastructure your AI initiatives need to ship safely in regulated environments. Training pipelines, model serving, vector stores, and inference platforms with the same compliance posture as the rest of your stack.

  • Training pipelines & experiment trackingMLOps
  • Model serving & inference platformsServe
  • Vector databases & RAG infrastructureRAG
  • GPU scheduling & cost controlsGPU
  • Data governance for AI workloadsGov
Explore AI Infrastructure & MLOps
03 — Methodology

A documented framework, applied to every engagement.

Every Stonebridge engagement applies the Evidence-Driven Infrastructure framework. Four principles synthesizing NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP 20x KSIs, HITRUST CSF, SLSA supply chain integrity, and DevSecOps practice into a coherent approach. Compliance becomes a property of how the infrastructure operates, not a checklist humans run before each audit window.

P/01 — BOUNDARY FIRST

Boundary First

Infrastructure architected around where sensitive data flows. Compliance scope is determined by data boundaries, not service inventories.

P/02 — CONTINUOUS EVIDENCE

Continuous Evidence

Every system component emits signed, queryable evidence as a property of operation. Audits become queries instead of projects.

P/03 — POLICY AS CODE

Policy as Code

Compliance controls expressed as executable code that runs on every change. Drift is impossible because policy is enforcing in real time.

P/04 — FOUNDER-DELIVERED

Founder-Delivered

Every engagement delivered by the same engineer who scoped it. No staffed handoffs, no offshore subcontractors, no junior delivery.

Read the full methodology → See engagement models →
04 — Industries

Lead specializations, broader practice.

We focus where compliance, scale, and engineering velocity collide. Healthcare and defense are our deepest specializations, and the same engineering rigor extends to every regulated industry where the cost of getting infrastructure wrong is measured in lawsuits, lost contracts, or breached customer trust.

Sector A

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Hospital systems, pharmacy benefit managers, clinical SaaS, biotech, and digital health platforms. We build the cloud infrastructure that lets your engineers ship while keeping HIPAA, HITRUST, and FDA technical safeguards continuously verifiable.

Common Engagements HIPAA-aligned multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure
HITRUST CSF certification preparation
PHI-aware data pipelines & vector stores
EHR integration platforms (FHIR, HL7)
Clinical AI & ML inference platforms
Audit log architecture for regulators
Sector B

Defense & Federal

Defense contractors, federal systems integrators, and govtech SaaS selling into DoD, IC, and civilian agencies. We build cloud infrastructure that maps cleanly to FedRAMP, DoD Impact Levels, and CMMC requirements without making your engineers miserable.

Common Engagements FedRAMP Moderate & High infrastructure foundations
FedRAMP 20x KSI readiness (Phase 3 Q3 2026)
DoD IL4 / IL5 enclave architecture
CMMC 2.0 readiness for the supply base
GovCloud & sovereign cloud migrations
Air-gapped Kubernetes & AI deployments
Also serving
Sector C

Financial Services & FinTech

Banks, credit unions, payment processors, wealth management platforms, and fintech SaaS. Cloud infrastructure with the latency, reliability, and audit posture that financial workloads demand.

SOC 2 · PCI DSS · GLBA · FFIEC
Sector D

Legal & LegalTech

Law firms and legaltech SaaS handling privileged client data. Infrastructure that respects attorney-client privilege, supports eDiscovery workflows, and meets technology competence obligations.

ABA · ISO 27001 — SOC 2
Sector E

Mortgage & Real Estate

Mortgage servicers, proptech platforms, and real estate transaction systems. Loan origination, document automation, and integration capacity built around the regulatory framework these workloads operate under.

CFPB · RESPA · GLBA · State-level
Sector F

B2B SaaS for Regulated Buyers

SaaS companies selling into healthcare, defense, finance, and legal. SOC 2 Type II is table stakes; the real engineering challenge is making compliance evidence continuously available to your customers' procurement teams.

SOC 2 · ISO 27001 — Customer-facing audits
05 — What clients say

Verified reviews from real engagements.

Stonebridge is founder-led. Every quote below is from a verified review, posted by a client after working directly with Lucas Jones, principal engineer. No edited testimonials, no anonymous internal quotes.

Cloud Infrastructure · Pipeline Optimization
We hired Lucas and he's a game changer. Top-notch work. Lucas delivered immediate results on our infrastructure. His expertise in AWS, GCP, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD is solid. He came in, assessed our environment, and got to work without needing his hand held. He optimized our deployment pipelines, improved our security posture, and identified cost savings. Everything was well-documented and delivered on schedule. Whether you need pipeline optimization, infrastructure as code, cloud migrations, or just someone to clean up a messy environment, Lucas is your guy.
Trevor J. · Cloud Architect @ Fintech
Verified Review · January 2026
AWS Security Audit · GitLab CI/CD
Lucas is a true professional and has deep understanding of cloud and DevOps engineering. He completed the security audit for our AWS environment and provided assistance correcting deficiencies. Would definitely recommend for future cloud work if you need a quick turnaround from a cloud expert.
Lucas did a great job helping set up and organize our GitLab CI/CD pipelines. He did a fantastic job switching between our AWS and GCP tenants to get our SaaS working properly.
David L · CTO @ Defense company
Two Verified Engagements
Restaurant SaaS Build-Out
Lucas is absolutely outstanding. Prompt, competent, likable, and professional. I recommend him wholeheartedly.
George N. · Founder @ Restaurant SaaS
Verified Review
FedRAMP Engagement
Lucas handled a FedRAMP compliance project for us and it was a huge win. Compliance work is where most engineers slow down, but Lucas came in with real experience in regulated environments and knew exactly what controls needed to be in place. He architected the infrastructure to align with FedRAMP Moderate requirements, documented everything thoroughly for auditors, and didn't cut corners. Communication was excellent throughout and he proactively flagged issues before they became problems. If you need someone who actually understands compliance and not just the buzzwords, hire Lucas.
Read the case study →
Ryan S. · CTO @ AI SaaS
Verified Review
Kubernetes Migration
This was our second engagement with Lucas and he led a full Kubernetes migration for us. He scoped the work clearly, built out the manifests, set up proper namespace isolation, network policies, and resource limits, and migrated our workloads without any production downtime. He also took the time to document the architecture and walk our internal team through the new setup so we weren't left in the dark. Solid Kubernetes expertise, clean execution, and zero drama. We'll definitely be back for the next phase.
Ryan S. · CTO @ AI SaaS
Verified Review · Second Engagement
HIPAA CI/CD Overhaul
Hired Lucas to overhaul our CI/CD pipelines in a HIPAA environment and he absolutely delivered. He rebuilt our pipelines with proper artifact promotion, added security scanning, and tightened up our deployment process so we're now both faster and more compliant. His background in healthcare infrastructure showed, he understood the constraints from day one and didn't need lengthy explanations about what we could and couldn't do with PHI. Deployment time dropped significantly and the audit trail is now clean. Highly recommend for anyone doing serious work in regulated industries.
Ryan S. · CTO @ AI SaaS
Verified Review · Third Engagement
Overall · Repeat Client
We've now hired Lucas three times, FedRAMP architecture, a Kubernetes migration, and a HIPAA CI/CD overhaul, and he's delivered on every one. What makes him stand out is the combination of deep technical skill across AWS, GCP, Terraform, and Kubernetes with genuine experience in regulated environments. He shows up prepared, communicates clearly, documents his work, and leaves things better than he found them. Hard to find engineers who can operate at this level across both infrastructure and compliance. He'll be our first call for any future cloud or DevOps work.
Ryan S. · CTO @ AI SaaS
Three Verified Engagements
6+ years
building cloud infrastructure for regulated workloads
10+ citations
Google AI Overview + Bing AI on HIPAA CI/CD queries
7+ frameworks
HIPAA, HITRUST, FedRAMP, FedRAMP 20x, SOC 2, CMMC, PCI across active engagements
06 — Cloud Platforms

Deep depth across the four platforms regulated buyers actually run.

Healthcare and defense workloads do not live on one cloud. We work fluently across all four major platforms, including their regulated and government variants, so the architecture decision can be driven by your contract requirements rather than your consultant's bias.

C/01

Amazon Web Services

Commercial AWS, AWS GovCloud (US), and the supporting service catalog. EKS, Bedrock, SageMaker, and the full IaC story in Terraform.

GovCloud · HIPAA · FedRAMP High
C/02

Google Cloud Platform

GCP commercial and Assured Workloads. GKE Autopilot, Vertex AI, BigQuery for healthcare data warehousing, and Anthos for hybrid.

Assured Workloads · HIPAA · FedRAMP
C/03

Microsoft Azure

Azure commercial, Azure Government, and Azure Government Secret. AKS, Azure ML, and the Microsoft ecosystem most enterprise health systems already run.

Azure Gov · HIPAA · IL5
C/04

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

OCI commercial and OCI Government Cloud. OKE, Oracle databases that already hold your healthcare records, and FedRAMP-authorized regions.

OCI Gov · HIPAA · FedRAMP High
07 — How We Work

An engagement model designed for regulated environments.

Most engagements start small. A two-week Cloud Compliance Audit produces a remediation roadmap and proves the working relationship before scope grows. Three engagement models support different stages: audit, build, and ongoing retainer.

01

Discovery & Scoping

A 30-minute call to understand the workload, the compliance surface, and the engineering team. We come back with a written proposal within 48 hours, not a slide deck.

Duration 30 min call · 48hr proposal

Cost No fee
02

Cloud Compliance Audit

Two-week, fixed-fee audit. We map your existing infrastructure against the relevant compliance framework and deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap with effort estimates.

Duration 2 weeks

Engagement From $15K fixed fee
03

Build Engagement

Hands-on engineering. Terraform, pipelines, clusters, AI infrastructure. Fixed scope and fixed price wherever possible. Weekly demos, written status reports, and a clear handoff path.

Duration 6 to 16 weeks

Engagement From $45K fixed fee
04

Managed Compliance Retainer

Ongoing capacity for clients who want senior engineering, architectural oversight, and continuous compliance verification without the cost of hiring a full team in-house. Founder-delivered continuity after the build.

Cadence Monthly

Engagement Scope-dependent
08 — Why Stonebridge

Senior engineers, narrow focus, real accountability.

We are not a generalist DevOps shop with a healthcare page. The compliance specialization is the entire business. That focus is what lets us move faster than the Big Four and deliver more rigor than a generic agency.

P/01

Senior practitioners on every engagement

You work directly with engineers who have shipped HIPAA-regulated workloads in production. No junior consultants billing senior rates, no offshore handoffs, no surprises in the discovery call.

P/02

Fixed scope, fixed price, written deliverables

Most engagements are scoped as fixed-fee with named deliverables. You know what you are buying, when you will get it, and what acceptance looks like before the kickoff call.

P/03

Compliance as a property of the platform

We apply the Evidence-Driven Infrastructure framework on every engagement. Audit evidence, control mappings, and policy enforcement are continuously emitted by the system, not collected manually before each audit window.

09 — Field Notes

Recent writing from active client work.

FN/05 — HIPAA · GITHUB ACTIONS · OIDC

GitHub Actions for HIPAA-compliant deployments

OIDC trust scope, self-hosted runner discipline, reusable workflows as the compliance contract. The three GitHub-specific decisions that separate a HIPAA-aligned pipeline from a SOC 2 one, with Terraform and the OPA gate.

Read the post →
10 — Questions

Frequently asked, directly answered.

Q/01What industries does Stonebridge specialize in?
Our lead specializations are healthcare and defense, including hospital systems, pharmacy benefit managers, clinical SaaS, biotech, defense contractors, and federal systems integrators. We also serve financial services and fintech, legal and legaltech, real estate and mortgage, and B2B SaaS companies selling into regulated buyers. The connecting thread in every case is the same: cloud infrastructure that meets strict compliance requirements without slowing engineering down.
Q/02Which cloud platforms do you support?
AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We have deep depth across all four, including GovCloud variants on AWS and Azure, GCP Assured Workloads, and OCI Government Cloud for federal workloads.
Q/03What compliance frameworks do you work with?
HIPAA and HITRUST for healthcare, FedRAMP Moderate and High for federal, FedRAMP 20x for cloud service providers preparing for Phase 3 in Q3 2026, DoD Impact Levels 4 and 5 for defense, CMMC 2.0 for the defense supply base, SOC 2 Type II for B2B SaaS, PCI DSS and GLBA for financial services, FFIEC for banking, and CFPB and RESPA for mortgage and real estate. We also work with the technology competence requirements that apply to legal practice.
Q/04How do engagements typically start?
Most engagements begin with a Cloud Compliance Audit, a two-week fixed-scope assessment that produces a remediation roadmap. From there, clients typically move into a fixed-fee build engagement (CI/CD, Kubernetes, or AI infrastructure) or an ongoing Managed Compliance Retainer. See the full methodology and engagement models →
Q/05Do you do hands-on engineering or just advisory?
Both. Most engagements are hands-on: we write the Terraform, build the pipelines, configure the clusters, and ship code into your repositories. Advisory-only retainers are available for clients with internal teams who need senior architectural guidance.
Q/06How is pricing structured?
Engagements are billed either as fixed fee or hourly, depending on scope. Cloud Compliance Audits start from $15,000 (fixed fee, 2 weeks) and build engagements start from $45,000 (fixed fee, 6+ weeks). FedRAMP authorization builds, HITRUST CSF programs, and large HIPAA cloud architectures routinely scope into the low six figures. Managed Compliance Retainers are monthly and scope-dependent. Every engagement comes with a written proposal that lays out the model, the deliverables, and the rate or total fee before any work starts.

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