April 1, 2025
I joined Clover Labs in February of 2025 after their CTO abruptly left. This put the team in a difficult situation of managing enterprise customers, maintaining the platform and shipping new features. I initially performed bug fixes and implemented highly requested features.
After my first 2 weeks I started noticing certain issues with the platform such as webhooks randomly failing, database calls taking several seconds and most shockingly a $948 bill from Vercel. I knew as we continue to grow this number would skyrocket.
After a day of deep research, I found the endpoints costing us the most and was able to take our cost from nearly $1000 to $200.
I speak about the technical details on my LinkedIn post here.