For a Better Environment: The Story of Developer Platform Optimization

Kakaopay Securities is approaching engineering productivity from a platform engineering perspective amid a complex infrastructure and financial regulatory environment. To this end, the company built an internal developer platform called WECAN, creating an environment where developers can focus solely on business logic.

The main service components are as follows.

• Unified Account Management: Integrated with the HR system to automate account and permission management, establishing a self-directed process that lets developers request and manage their own permissions.
• Deployment Platform 'Rocketdan': Complies with strict financial deployment procedures while integrating with the CI/CD platform to automate deployments and systematize audit trail management, minimizing human error.
• Catalog: Serves as an internal developer portal (IDP) that visualizes all service-related information, from source code to infrastructure resources.

These efforts aim to create "an environment where even a developer who joined yesterday can deploy code today," focusing on improving the user experience across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).