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Stabilize & Scale a High-Stakes Human Resources (HR) Tech Platform
Technologies used
c++
react
azure
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Project Summary

A venture-backed HR tech startup, was facing a critical stabilization crisis. Their platform’s “consulting workflow” was broken and non-intuitive, even the CEO couldn’t use it effectively for demos.
Having just secured a new round of funding, the company was under pressure to deliver but was “positioned to fail.” They needed an expert technical partner to rapidly take ownership, stabilize the product, and build a professional development pipeline to support future growth.

Challenge
Non-intuitive and broken “consulting workflow” that blocked client demos and user adoption.
Outdated and unstable codebase with critical issues across key modules.
Lack of a CI/CD pipeline, leading to deployment risks and slow iteration.
Urgent need to stabilize the platform after new funding, under investor pressure.
Solution
Stabilized the Application:  We took full ownership of the codebase, triaged critical issues, and performed an "ER" style intervention to "bring it back to life."

Stabilized the Application:  We took full ownership of the codebase, triaged critical issues, and performed an "ER" style intervention to "bring it back to life."

Established Professional Pipelines:  We immediately implemented a modern CI/CD release pipeline, allowing the team to "iterate well" and deploy code safely.

Established Professional Pipelines:  We immediately implemented a modern CI/CD release pipeline, allowing the team to "iterate well" and deploy code safely.

Re-architected Core Workflows: We partnered with the CEO to understand the deep-seated UX issues in the "consulting" module, the most-used part of the product and began the process of a full redesign and refactor to make it intuitive and consistent with th

Re-architected Core Workflows: We partnered with the CEO to understand the deep-seated UX issues in the "consulting" module, the most-used part of the product and began the process of a full redesign and refactor to make it intuitive and consistent with the rest of the platform.

Results
The platform was fully stabilized and relaunched into production. delighting the CEO and their investors 
("I have been so pleased with the process as well as the product").
The CEO and investors were highly satisfied with the process and outcome.
The company now operates on a stable, scalable codebase and a professional development workflow.
The company gained confidence to acquire new customers and focus on their next funding round.
Testimonials

I’ve gone through this process with multiple development houses. None of them have ever been as smooth. I’m super impressed with this team... I’ll put them up against anybody, and I’ll fight somebody about them.”

- CEO
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