Veera Chunduri

Problem

Professionals and business owners piece together a CRM, a handful of calculators, marketing tools, and a public-facing site from separate vendors. Nothing serves the whole practice, and nothing is built for how licensing and verification actually work across their industries.

Decisions

Designed the multi-tenant data model and authentication architecture for strict tenant isolation from day one, weighing convenience against control at each layer and choosing the more controllable option given the sensitivity of the data.

Built a lead and advertising marketplace into the platform — paid placements for outside organizations alongside cross-sell opportunities between businesses and professionals already on it — plus a paid featured-listings system for monetized directory visibility.

Before treating anything as launch-ready, ran a full self-directed security audit of the codebase and worked the findings into a prioritized fix list.

Outcome

Live in production with a matching staging environment, a written deployment runbook, and a recovery procedure. Six pricing tiers with feature gating enforced at both the API and the UI. 21 CI workflows run tests, security checks, and deploys automatically on every push.

Problem

A working practice needed a public site, online booking, invoicing, document handling, and a blog/content engine that could be run without ever touching code.

Decisions

Split into three independently deployable pieces (marketing site, client portal, API) sharing one database, with billing integration and a full content CMS wired in. When the production host turned out to have no SSH or process-manager access at all, diagnosed that mid-build and rebuilt the deploy path around the host's own Git integration, including catching a GitHub Actions workflow that had been silently failing for a full day while the real deploy path kept working the whole time.

Outcome

Live in production and still actively maintained: the most recently touched project in the portfolio. Recent changes are proactive security fixes (an open redirect closed, dependencies patched) shipped without being asked.

Problem

Most retail strategy backtests are one curve-fit run away from meaningless. A strategy needs to survive out-of-sample data, randomized trade order, and the exact drawdown mechanics of a real funded account before it's worth risking capital on.

Decisions

Built a multi-tier statistical validation pipeline that stress-tests each strategy from multiple angles before trusting it with capital, with a personal bar set above the pipeline's own defaults before anything graduates from backtest to paper trading.

Outcome

One strategy promoted to "validated" after clearing a 0.865 out-of-sample Sharpe across 20 years of data; a competing approach correctly retired after failing out-of-sample despite looking fine in-sample.