# Q1 2025 Technology Report

## Executive Summary

This report summarises the technology investments and outcomes for Q1 2025. The engineering team delivered three major platform upgrades, reduced infrastructure costs by 22%, and achieved 99.97% uptime across all production services.

## Cloud Infrastructure

### Azure Migration

The migration to Microsoft Azure App Services was completed in February 2025. All 14 microservices are now deployed on Azure with auto-scaling enabled. Monthly cloud spend dropped from $18,400 to $14,350 after rightsizing.

### Key Metrics

- **Uptime:** 99.97% (SLA target: 99.9%)
- **Avg response time:** 142ms (down from 310ms)
- **Cost savings:** $4,050/month
- **Services migrated:** 14 of 14

## Software Development

### REST API Platform

The new .NET 8 REST API platform went live on 15 January 2025. It replaced 3 legacy XML-SOAP services and reduced average integration time from 4 days to 6 hours.

### Test Automation

Selenium and Playwright test suites now cover 87% of critical user journeys. Regression test time dropped from 4 hours to 38 minutes thanks to parallel execution on GitHub Actions.

### CI/CD Pipeline

All 14 services now use GitHub Actions for continuous deployment. Mean time to deploy fell from 45 minutes to 8 minutes.

## Security

### Certifications and Audits

- ISO 27001 audit passed with zero critical findings
- Azure Key Vault adopted for all secrets management
- Penetration test completed — 2 medium issues resolved within SLA

## Team Highlights

### Achievements

The backend team received the **Synechron Technologies Q1 2025 Innovation Award** for the Azure migration project.

Three engineers completed the Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) certification.

### Headcount

- **Total engineers:** 24
- **New hires:** 3
- **Open positions:** 2

## Roadmap

### Q2 2025 Priorities

1. Launch customer-facing API portal
2. Adopt OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
3. Migrate MS SQL databases to Azure SQL Managed Instance
4. Begin evaluation of vector database options (Qdrant, Weaviate, pgvector)

## Conclusion

Q1 2025 delivered strong results across cloud efficiency, developer velocity, and security posture. The team is well-positioned to execute the Q2 roadmap and maintain the momentum built this quarter.
