WPD

Industry: E-commerce

Working in to shopify efficiently transformed a PHP app to microservices, migrating 60M data points to indexed clusters, maintaining backward compatibility leading a team of size 4.
Implemented a cost-effective tree data structure within Redis and developed customer APIs using Flask to ensure a response time of under 2 seconds utilized by 100,000 customers on a daily basis.
Led migration from monolith to modular Laravel microservices, now powering 12K+ Shopify merchants and 600K+ users.
Migrated over 60 million records during refactor without any downtime.
Helped grow ARR from 40K to 2M by delivering high-impact features.
Scaled engineering team from 6 → 30 pre-acquisition, then integrated into 250+ team post-acquisition.

Reference: Seth Gold