Work
Cost, stalled delivery, continuity, and an e-commerce platform. Problems an operating company already has.
Operations
Saved 99%
Reduced expenses from $1 million a year to $800 a month
A monitoring stack that no longer matched the job
Situation. A commercial monitoring and logging platform running about a million dollars a year.
What was done. The principal designed and built a replacement scoped to that job, not a wholesale infrastructure rewrite.
Result. Expenses dropped from $1 million a year to $800 a month. The replacement was still running years later.
Product delivery
1 week
to turn around a project stuck for 3 years
A critical platform that would not ship
Situation. A dedicated effort had failed for three years to land a required mobile rewrite, blocking a store upgrade and a high-value feature behind it.
What was done. The principal rewrote the core and got it into production in a week.
Result. The upgrade shipped. The feature was no longer blocked by a platform nobody could move.
Continuity
2 years
of unbroken releases after a 30-person cut
Shipping after a major headcount cut
Situation. A reorganization removed roughly thirty people from a national consumer mobile organization.
What was done. The principal kept the platform shipping: an iOS rewrite, a required Android upgrade, and an auth migration.
Result. Two years of releases with no break in cadence, with almost no remaining onshore bench around the work.
E-commerce
80% margins
on an e-commerce platform we designed and ran
An operation that had to run without a department around it
Situation. An e-commerce and public-records platform built from a clean sheet, run as an owner-operated business rather than a department.
What was done. The principal designed the platform, the operations, and the team around it.
Result. The operation ran at approximately 80% margins, with years of unattended operation.