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Universal E-Commerce Platform Rewrite

Helped architect the front end of a complete rewrite of an e-commerce platform generating more than $1B a year, and led a team of 10–12 UI and Node engineers.

// impact: Fully universal rendering; tuned for 120+ TPS hot-market loads

// Context

Fanatics runs storefronts for major sports leagues and teams, with huge traffic spikes during hot-market events.

// Challenges

›Isomorphic/universal rendering across a large React + Relay app
›Surviving hot-market spikes above 120 transactions per second
›Secure payment-processor and microservice communication

// Approach

›Set architectural patterns: services, routing, component structure, Flux/Redux state, and lint and test automation
›Containerized the app with Docker and integrated CircleCI and RunDeck for continuous delivery
›Tuned Node, React, Relay and Docker; added asset prefetching/preloading and the PageSpeed NginX module
›Built CSRF and XSS protections, JWT/JWK flows, and a proprietary URL-integrity algorithm for SEO-critical URIs

// Outcomes

›The whole app rendered universally
›Handled hot-market loads above 120 TPS
›Led a team of 10–12 engineers