Headlamp Health is a platform focused on enhancing mental health care by equipping clinicians with advanced tools to analyze patient data and streamline documentation through AI. This approach allows for more personalized and effective treatment.
Design partnership
As Kapstan’s first design partner, Headlamp Health collaborated closely with us to streamline their infrastructure. Despite their engineering team’s expertise in Kubernetes and observability, they quickly recognized the value Kapstan brought in simplifying complex tasks.
“Without Kapstan, any startup team would have to go through a steep DevOps learning curve. Kapstan’s expertise takes away our day-to-day headaches, allowing our team to focus on what we’re building.” — Abhishek Mishra, Founding Architect, Headlamp
Key benefits of using Kapstan
- Simplified Kubernetes management: New engineers at Headlamp didn’t need to learn Kubernetes to manage production-scale infrastructure, thanks to Kapstan’s user-friendly interface. This empowered the team to operate independently without deep technical knowledge around kubernetes.
“Kapstan has simplified deploying, managing and scaling applications on Kubernetes, especially for users who might not have a deep background in Kubernetes itself. It abstracts some of the complexity of Kubernetes, includes tools for monitoring and troubleshooting that are designed to be easier to use, providing a more user-friendly interface for deploying and managing applications.
It often includes default configurations that simplify the deployment process, allowing you to get started quickly rather than dealing with Kubernetes intricacies.“ — Ankit, Software Engineer, Headlamp
- Out of the box security and compliance: Security and compliance are paramount in medical industry. Kapstan ensures that deployed infrastructure is always up to date with latest security patches and code is scanned to identify vulnerabilities. Secrets are securely stored in a vault and are rotated periodically.
- Prioritized feature development: Kapstan evolved alongside Headlamp, adding features like environment cloning and cron job support, allowing Headlamp to scale without the burden of managing complex DevOps.
“Kapstan’s team was responsive to our needs, making it easier to prioritize critical infrastructure improvements without compromising on business requirements.” — Manaswini, Head of engineering, Headlamp
- Industry best practices from day one: Kapstan’s out-of-the-box observability enabled Headlamp to adopt industry best practices without delay, ensuring a solid foundation for growth.
“Out-of-the-box metrics helped us immensely. Setting up proper monitoring, alerting and cost observability are time consuming tasks and always compete against business priorities.” — Manaswini, Head of Engineering, Headlamp
Results
- Resource efficiency: Kapstan allowed Headlamp to allocate more resources to product development. If it weren’t for an internal developer platform like Kapstan, Headlamp would have had hired 1 or 2 DevOps engineers early on in their journey, taking away crucial resources from building their product.
- Scalability: Headlamp could handle user growth seamlessly, with infrastructure scaling managed effortlessly through Kapstan.
- Cost management: The platform’s cost monitoring and recommendation tools enabled Headlamp to optimize expenses without sacrificing performance.
Conclusion
Kapstan has been instrumental in Headlamp’s journey, simplifying DevOps management, prioritizing critical features, and embedding best practices from day one. This partnership allowed Headlamp to focus on their core mission—enhancing mental health care—while Kapstan took care of their DevOps needs.
If you’d like to learn how Kapstan can help do the same for your team, reach out to talk to our founding team.
