Description

Lead Software Lead responsible for end-to-end architecture of Founderpath’s funding platform and analytics suite. Designed secure data-ingestion and underwriting APIs, oversaw the React front-end experience, maintained SOC 2/GDPR compliance, and managed a pod of three engineers across data, backend, and DevOps.

Solutions

- Service-oriented backend in Laravel (PHP) with MySQL + Redis, containerized via Docker and orchestrated on Kubernetes (DigitalOcean).

- Type-safe API layer using tRPC (Node.js sidecar) to connect React dashboards to PHP services and stream real-time metric updates.

- Airflow-driven ELT pipeline ingesting billing, accounting, and subscription data from Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, ProfitWell, Xero, and others into BigQuery.

- Metric & valuation engine in BigQuery + Metabase computing MRR, ARR, churn, CAC, LTV, payback, and a proprietary “SaaS Credit Score.”

- Auto-underwriting service that evaluates risk and generates funding offers in under 5 minutes; automated disbursement sees cash in founders’ accounts within 48 hours.

- Robust DevOps & security: GitHub Actions CI/CD, blue-green deployments, Cloudflare WAF, Vault-based secrets, encrypted PII at rest, and full audit logging to meet SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

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Results

- Deployed $180 M+ in non-dilutive capital to 500+ SaaS companies, cutting average time-to-cash to 46 hours.

- Delivered free KPI dashboards to 11 k+ founders; weekly active usage averages 68%.

- Reduced underwriting and payment-processing errors from >5% to <0.3%; API latency dropped from 900 ms to 120 ms; platform uptime now 99.97%.

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