Performance Crisis to Acquisition: Saving a Key Customer Relationship
Challenge
Brought in as employee #5 to repair a broken relationship with the company’s largest customer. The application was built for smaller customers and couldn’t handle enterprise-scale volume — massive timeouts and API failures were destroying the partnership.
Approach
Re-engineered the application for enterprise-scale performance. Took a critical API endpoint from a 30-minute timeout down to under 15 seconds. Stabilized the platform to handle the volume and reliability demands of a major healthcare staffing operation.
Result
Saved the customer relationship. The turnaround directly contributed to the company’s acquisition.
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