Retail technology · System modernization
Retail Platform Modernization
A platform reset around faster catalog synchronization and a simpler operating model.
- Joseph's role
- Technical Consultant & Solution Architect
- Experience
- Work led by our founder
~85%
lower monthly infrastructure cost
$4,000 per month to $600 per month.
Scope of the work
Point-of-sale adapters
Catalog synchronization
Cloud cost reset
The challenge
An inherited platform serving dozens of stores was costly to run and difficult to stabilize. Its most important catalog synchronization took about 40 minutes, and the existing architecture made incremental updates impractical.
Joseph's contribution
Rescue-or-rebuild decision
Stabilized the first version, measured its failure and cost patterns, and built the technical and commercial case for a clean replacement.
Integration architecture
Designed a shared adapter layer across five point-of-sale integrations, with circuit breakers, retry ladders, and dead-letter handling around vendor calls.
Managed platform design
Replaced a broad cloud footprint with managed database, authentication, real-time, worker, and search services sized around the actual workload.
What the work enabled
The new design reduced monthly infrastructure cost by roughly 85%, cut full synchronization from 40 minutes to under five, and added incremental updates that complete in under a minute.
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