How Aiculus strengthened API security and scaled deployments with a Vietnam-based team
To accelerate customer deployments and continuously harden API security, Aiculus partnered with AppGenie to embed a dedicated Vietnam-based team — reducing API incidents by 37% and improving scam detection speed by 42%.
Industry
Cybersecurity / AI
Country
Australia
Company Type
Startup
The Partner
Aiculus is an AI-driven API security company that helps organisations detect and respond to API threats across their API traffic in real-time — supporting security, privacy, and visibility as companies expand their API footprint. As API adoption accelerated, Aiculus saw increasing demand for deployments that could integrate smoothly with different customer technology setups—while maintaining high standards for security and privacy.
The Challenge
Aiculus' core team needed to scale delivery without compromising product quality or customer experience. The key challenges were:
- Scaling deployments across varied environments: Integrations needed to be repeatable and adaptable to different customer stacks and constraints.
- Sustaining technical support and continuous improvement: Maintaining momentum on product enhancement while keeping customers supported and platforms stable.
- Fast-tracking integrations without long hiring cycles: A lean team needed additional senior capacity—quickly—without the overhead of recruiting and ramping.
The AppGenie Solution
AppGenie built a dedicated team in Vietnam to extend Aiculus' engineering capacity and integrate directly into their delivery cadence—enabling faster deployments, stronger maintenance coverage, and a reliable improvement loop.
The Team
- Senior Backend/Tech Lead — API gateway hardening, core services delivery, release ownership
- DevSecOps/Platform Engineer — secure deployment automation, observability, production readiness
- Security/Detection Engineer — anomaly detection logic improvements, tuning, and triage workflows
- Full-stack Engineer — dashboards, reporting UX, customer-facing configuration experiences
How AppGenie Integrated
- Agile delivery: two-week sprint cycles, weekly deployment planning, daily syncs
- Shared ownership: PR-based development, documented runbooks, and predictable release routines
- Operational continuity: structured maintenance and support coverage to prevent "feature velocity" from eroding stability
Key Features Delivered
- API Gateway Hardening
- Anomaly Detection Logic
- Secure Deployment Automation
- Real-time Threat Detection
The Outcome
With a dedicated Vietnam-based pod, Aiculus strengthened its engineering throughput while improving security outcomes and deployment execution.
- 37% fewer API incidents after hardening key security controls and improving operational stability.
- 42% faster scam detection, accelerating time-to-signal and response speed.
- Improved ability to support larger, complex deployments, enabled by access to a dedicated offshore development center model.
- Stronger technical support + maintenance cadence, allowing continuous product improvement without sacrificing customer responsiveness.
"What worked best was embedding into Aiculus' cadence and making integrations repeatable — so every new deployment got faster and more predictable."
— Tung Nguyen (Tech Lead)