Vertex Commerce Engine

Vertex's existing platform handled scale until it didn't. At around 2M SKUs things started creaking. Developer onboarding took weeks. The admin UI required a manual. They needed a ground-up rebuild — fast.

We designed a distributed edge-computing layer with a custom caching strategy built for their specific access patterns. The API was designed API-first, then stress-tested before a single line of admin UI existed. The admin interface itself was designed for operations teams, not engineers — real workflows, not database views.

99.99% uptime. 3x faster than the previous system. Developer onboarding down 40%.