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Case Study

Serverless cost & reliability uplift

A SaaS product had unpredictable latency and rising AWS costs. I re-architected the serverless stack to improve resilience and spend efficiency without slowing delivery.

Highlights

  • Costs reduced by 32% through async offloading and right-sized concurrency.
  • p95 latency stabilized under 400ms with provisioned concurrency on critical paths.
  • Safer deploys via canaries and automatic rollback tied to CloudWatch alarms.

What I built

  • Event-driven workflow using SQS + Lambda for bursty workloads and idempotent handlers.
  • Infrastructure-as-code with CDK, including API Gateway configs, WAF, and observability defaults.
  • Cost/perf dashboards in CloudWatch and Grafana to track business KPIs alongside infra metrics.

Impact

  • Developers shipped weekly without fear of regressions thanks to staged rollouts.
  • Finance gained predictability with tagged spend and automated budget alerts.
  • Customer-facing reliability improved, reducing support tickets tied to timeouts.