Led the development of a SaaS payment platform from the ground up as Tech Lead — technical planning, engineering workflows and release coordination.

context

A new payment product with no existing codebase: the technical foundation, the delivery process and the documentation all had to be created.

problem

Standing up a payments system from zero while keeping releases predictable for a team that was forming at the same time.

role

Tech Lead: owned technical planning, release coordination and the engineering workflow.

decisions

Invested early in CI/CD and in written solution investigations and workflow diagrams so decisions were visible to the whole team rather than held by one person.

engineering

Core platform development; CI/CD pipeline improvements that cut deployment time by roughly 25%; technical documentation and workflow diagrams.

outcome

A platform delivered from an empty repository with a repeatable release process, and deployments about a quarter faster than the starting point.

Ruby · Rails · PostgreSQL · CI/CD