PropTech2026-02
PropTech Startup: CI/CD from Zero to 8-Minute Deploys on GCP
A two-year-old property management SaaS had a Django monolith deployed manually via SSH to a single GCP VM. The CTO was the only person who knew the deployment process. Any absence created a production risk. We built a full CI/CD pipeline with zero-downtime deploys in 10 days.
Deploy time
55 minutes (manual SSH)8 minutes (automated)
Deploy freq
1–2/week (gated by CTO availability)Multiple times daily (any engineer)
Deploy time: 55 min manual → 8 min automatedRead