Software Engineer @ Procol

The problem

Analytics dashboards and the three main sourcing APIs were too slow for real-time procurement decisions. At the same time, every new client integration was a bespoke engineering project that delayed go-live.

The approach

• Profiled hot paths to find where time actually went instead of guessing.
• Refactored slow queries, added targeted Redis caching, and removed redundant data fetches for analytics.
• Tuned the three highest-traffic sourcing APIs end-to-end.
• Built Integration Studio as a configurable adapter-and-mapping layer so new platforms slot in without per-client code.

Impact

What I learned

• The bottleneck is rarely where you first think it is.
• A small number of queries usually drive most of the load.
• Productizing internal tooling is often the highest-leverage thing a platform team can do.

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