Overview
Developed and scaled backend services handling 7k requests/min for a marketplace supporting over 1M monthly active users.
Details
Developed and scaled Ruby on Rails backend services, background workers, and internal GraphQL APIs receiving 7k requests/min on average for Whop's consumer-facing marketplace and business-facing dashboard, eventually supporting over 1M MAU.
Performed critical database maintenance and performance enhancements for PostgreSQL, resulting in an average decrease in response time of 70% for 10 key transactions, allowing the team to reduce the sitewide timeout threshold from 30 to 7.5 seconds.
Built and maintained integrations with Discord, Telegram, and TradingView, processing millions of dollars in marketplace transactions and managing access for over 300k paying customers.
Owned the design, development, and performance optimization of Whop's public RESTful API, achieving sub-30ms average response time and handling 1k requests/min on average, with peaks of 5k requests/min.