Case study·Public sector — developer portal & security intelligence

Transforming British Columbia Government’s DevHub into a knowledge and security intelligence platform.

British Columbia Government’s developer portal had become an important resource for engineering teams, but critical developer knowledge and security insights remained scattered across multiple systems. We extended DevHub with capabilities for knowledge discovery and built an application-security intelligence architecture connecting developers, security teams, and platform stakeholders.

22k+
Discussions migrated into a unified searchable platform
30k+
Monthly security issues identified before reaching higher environments
12
Security data sources unified through a centralized security workflow
The context

British Columbia Government’s DevHub team operated a developer portal serving a large public-sector engineering community, but developers still had to navigate multiple systems to find knowledge and understand application security risks.

The challenge

British Columbia Government wanted DevHub to become the central destination for developer knowledge and actionable platform insights.

Knowledge was fragmented across collaboration and documentation systems, with existing internal resources not fully aligned with how teams shared and consumed information. At the same time, security information existed across multiple scanning tools and required a consistent approach to aggregation, prioritization, permissions, and visibility for different users.

Our approach

We used a discovery-led, architecture-first approach to extend DevHub sustainably:

Consolidated developer knowledge sources into a unified search experience, improving how teams discover and reuse internal expertise.
Designed an application-security intelligence architecture that connected security data sources through a common security data model, enabling findings to be prioritized and surfaced through developer workflows.
Created user-centered designs for developers, security teams, and ministry stakeholders, ensuring each group could access the information needed to make decisions and take action.
Established reusable platform patterns, including extensible architecture, role-based access controls, and structured data models.
Built policy-driven security workflows using an open-source policy management system with a platform-agnostic data format, integrating policy evaluation into the developer portal experience.
The outcome

British Columbia Government gained a concrete path to make DevHub the central place for developer knowledge and security visibility. Guidanti validated knowledge discovery integration at scale, demonstrated security data workflows using a unified security data architecture, and established a foundation for policy-aware developer workflows within DevHub. The result was a stronger developer portal architecture designed not only to display information, but to help teams discover knowledge, understand risk, and take action.

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