About
DoubleDeploy Verify started in 2018 after a routine staging deploy passed every automated check — unit tests green, integration suites clean, smoke tests nominal — yet still managed to corrupt the payment ledger in production within seventeen minutes. The culprit was a configuration drift between two microservices that no single verification tool was watching. The rollback took three hours.
Marcus Chen, then a reliability architect at a major cloud provider, spent the following weekend drafting a verification framework that tested deployments and their reversals in lockstep. The idea was simple: if you cannot verify the rollback with the same rigor as the deploy, you haven't really verified anything. He called it DoubleDeploy.
By early 2019, Sarah Okafor joined to operationalize the framework for mid-market fintech teams, and James Voss came aboard to build the quality systems layer. The company incorporated that spring in Austin, Texas.
What sets us apart
Every verification run executes the full deploy and the full rollback against a live-shadow environment before either path is approved. If the rollback fails, the deploy is blocked — no exceptions, no overrides, no 2 AM heroics required.
The people behind the pipeline
Twelve years at AWS building internal deployment tooling. Marcus wrote the first DoubleDeploy spec in a single weekend after watching a $4M payment batch fail silently. He still reviews every pull request that touches the verification core.
Former Navy logistics officer. Sarah applies military-grade operational precision to every release pipeline she designs. She once mapped a 94-step enterprise deploy sequence entirely from memory during a client audit — and found three gaps the client's own team had missed.
Open-source contributor with patches in five major testing frameworks. James personally walks every edge case before sign-off. He keeps a hand-written log of every near-miss the DoubleDeploy system has caught since day one — it's currently at 174 entries.
A moment that stuck
"July 2020, 2:13 AM. A scheduled deploy to a payments processor triggered the DoubleDeploy verification run. The deploy passed. The rollback failed — a cascading config mismatch between three services that no pre-flight check had flagged. The deploy was blocked automatically. Forty thousand merchants never knew how close they came to a six-hour outage. We printed the rollback failure trace and hung it in the break room. It's still there."