Fabian Ponce

Saylent, later acquired by MeridianLink, was a technology company building a new fintech analysis product. Their developers had multiple software artifacts, but they needed a way to start deploying it into the cloud. Still, it didn't make sense for them to hire an infrastructure engineer full-time.

I built a lightweight deployment automation, continuous delivery pipelines, and infrastructure tooling that was low-maintenance, easily understood, and gave their team a good place to start.

This improved their ability to set up new customer environments, provide demos, and get faster feedback on their work.

At Puresend, the deployment of their core application code was done once a month due to the impacts of downtime. During the downtime period, marketing links that had been sent out would not function and would result in a request timeout error.

By implementing a failover application that could handle this traffic and record the metrics for later consumption, we were able to reduce the cost of downtime and set up a roadmap for improving developer velocity without damaging the business.

A well-known television talk show had a WordPress-powered website that was going offline during their live broadcast, where they often featured promotions and other consumer engagement opportunities. This was costing their business revenue and was a common point of frustration for those watching the show and following along via social media.

I worked alongside a small team that identified performance issues in the website and helped bridge the gap between their internal team's understanding of the software project and their cloud providers. We solved technical challenges such as N+1 queries, migrated them to AWS, and provided a reliable and predictable means to scale up cloud resources during the live broadcast since auto-scaling wouldn't react fast enough.

We ultimately improved their website to a point where it could handle the live broadcast traffic without sweat and still save on hosting costs when they were off the air.