Case studies
Systems we’ve designed,
shipped and kept online.
A selection of backend and infrastructure work. Names and figures are representative of the kind of engineering we do.
Distributed Systems
Re-architecting a payments platform for 50k rps
A ledger and gateway rebuild that took a strained monolith to 50,000 requests per second with money-grade correctness.
50k rps sustained throughput
99.99% uptime
−68% p99 latency
Data & Streaming
A real-time analytics pipeline at 8 billion events a day
Ingest, enrich and serve 8B events per day with sub-two-second freshness and no data loss.
8B/day events ingested
<2s end-to-end lag
0 events dropped
Cloud & DevOps
A zero-downtime monolith to microservices migration
Strangler-fig migration of a decade-old monolith into 140+ services — with zero customer-facing downtime.
0 downtime minutes
140+ services shipped
3× deploy frequency
Distributed Systems
Multi-region failover for a global API
Active-active across three regions with automatic failover measured in seconds, not hours.
<30s recovery time
3 active regions
99.995% availability
Performance
Cutting cloud spend 41% without losing headroom
A focused performance and capacity program that cut the cloud bill by 41% while traffic grew.
−41% cloud cost
2.4M daily users
−55% compute
Security
Hardening a healthcare API to SOC 2 and HIPAA
A security program that took a fast-moving product through SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA with zero critical findings.
SOC 2 Type II passed
0 critical findings
100% data encrypted