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Six real engagements. Different products, same pattern: find what’s expensive and unclear, put a few lasting fixes in place, and leave the team able to run it without you as the firefighter.
BeforeHidden assumptions between services, messy pipelines, and unclear cloud/database ownership made every integration expensive to change.
ResultMigration to TypeScript, better pipelines and data discipline, and new partner integrations — without a full rewrite.
BeforeModel quality, recording jobs, infrastructure health, and cost were each watched in isolation — so nobody saw the full reliability picture.
ResultRelease checks, a safer recording path, clearer AWS ops, and usage metrics that don’t expose content — so reliability could be measured.
BeforeOwnership was unclear, teams repeated release work, and knowledge stayed concentrated around individual APIs.
ResultShared templates, CI/CD, libraries, automation, and mentoring cleared three backlogs and spread ownership across 20+ APIs.
BeforeMobile, backend, device messaging, and cloud control had grown from prototype assumptions into production risk.
ResultWe named immediate stopgaps and an eight-week fix sequence, and skipped the rewrite.
BeforeAbout 10,000 one-star App Store reviews exposed reliability issues that made investing in more devices a bad bet.
ResultA horizontally scalable redesign stopped the mass one-star pattern and removed the platform limit that was blocking device growth.
BeforeContent lived across several external providers with different shapes, languages, and update cadences, and there was no platform to unify it.
ResultA serverless AWS platform from scratch — Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Terraform and CI/CD from day one — plus a separate service for large-file delivery.