Empowering a Top 50 Dutch Startup with Cloud and Developer Platforms that Drive Engineering Velocity

Background

As one of the Top 50 Dutch Startups, EZ Factory helps industrial teams work safer and smarter through its EZ-GO mobile platform. The company’s rapid success created new demands on its engineering organization — scaling fast while maintaining reliability and speed.

While EZ Factory’s internal product teams drove feature development, managing infrastructure, cloud resources, and internal IT systems consumed valuable engineering bandwidth. To keep developers focused on innovation, EZ Factory partnered with Uptic’s Platform Team to design and operate modern cloud and developer platforms that would streamline delivery and simplify operations.
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“Uptic’s platform team has been a critical partner in helping us scale. Our developers can focus on innovation, confident that our platform and internal IT is secure, reliable, and constantly improving.” _{- CTO, EZ Factory}

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Challenge

EZ Factory’s existing cloud environments had grown organically, creating inconsistencies across teams and projects. Manual infrastructure management slowed deployments, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines required constant developer attention.

The business needed a unified platform to:

• Standardize environments and enforce security best practices.
• Automate build, test, and release pipelines for faster delivery.
• Improve observability and reliability across multi-region deployments.
• Empower developers to build and ship features independently — without the friction of managing infrastructure.

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Solution

Uptic’s Platform Team designed and now operates a developer-first cloud platform that enables EZ Factory’s engineers to deliver faster, safer, and more consistently. The platform was built around principles of DevOps automation, self-service enablement, and continuous improvement, with ongoing support and optimization from Uptic.

• Azure Cloud Platform Management: Automated provisioning and configuration via Infrastructure-as-Code for consistent, secure environments.
• Internal Developer Platform (IDP): Built self-service tools for environment creation, CI/CD, and testing — reducing dependencies on ops teams.
• CI/CD Automation: Implemented pipelines with automated testing, linting, and security scans, accelerating releases and reducing manual work.
• Observability & Monitoring: Unified dashboards for logs, metrics, and alerting improved visibility and response times.
• Internal IT Services: Streamlined identity, access, and device management to support remote and hybrid teams securely.

Uptic continues to provide ongoing platform management, operations, and innovation, ensuring the platform evolves with EZ Factory’s needs and supports continuous developer productivity improvements.

Outcomes

The modernization transformed a fragmented infrastructure into a high-performance, developer-centric platform — dramatically improving efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

• Developer productivity: Reduced environment setup and deployment times by > 70%.
• Operational efficiency: Automated provisioning and unified tooling lowered maintenance overhead.
• Scalability: Multi-region Azure foundation supports global growth and future expansion.
• Reliability: Enhanced monitoring and resilience improved uptime and performance.
• Ongoing optimization: Continuous improvements keep the platform aligned with business and developer needs.