Case Study
Database reviews for a public diagnostics company's SaaS
Two performance-and-architecture engagements for a publicly-traded veterinary diagnostics firm — one referral led to the next.
I came in through a referral, delivered one report, and a different manager hired me on the strength of it. That internal hand-off is the part of this engagement I'm proudest of.
The company
A publicly-traded veterinary diagnostics company, working with their SaaS / practice-management group.
What I did
It ran in two billed phases.
The first was a practice-management product. I scoped it as a half-day onsite at their headquarters plus a comprehensive performance report — schema review, architecture review, monitoring recommendations, the easy wins, and the longer-term habits that keep a team from sliding backward. Delivered as a written "Performance Analysis and Best Practices Report."
The second came a few months later, when a development manager on a different product re-engaged me — explicitly because the first team had recommended me internally. This was a schema-and-architecture review across three production MySQL databases on RDS. I worked against the live environment remotely, reviewed the schemas, and delivered a report covering current state, easy wins, the performance problems I expected them to hit as they grew, monitoring practices, and the architectural changes worth making for scale.