Platformatory | Forward Deployed Engineering Firm: Data, AI & Modernization

Case Studies

Systems integration

Global data fabric across operational & business lakes

Operational and Business lakes on one fabric—write once, read many (~100× less redundant copy), incremental pipelines at ~5 min p95, and retirement of a home-grown batch estate that needed a 20-person team.

  • Data Platform
  • Data Engineering
  • Modernization
View
Banking

Zero-downtime core banking migration

Zero-downtime core banking migration—CDC kept the target current, canary routing moved users in batches, roll-forward across 5M+ users in one week.

  • Modernization
  • Platform Excellence
  • Data Engineering
View
Public sector

System Twin — Border Control (MEA)

System twin for border operations—e-gate and counter staffing against passenger load; Kafka Streams event-sourced rebuild; dual-write consistency; 2.5DC stretch cluster; e2e p99 under 50ms at zero RTO/RPO.

  • Performance Engineering
  • Platform Excellence
  • Modernization
View
Banking

Multi-region data hub at a 5-minute SLA

Global data hub remediation—incremental cross-region copy from Oracle (including Flexcube) held to a 5-minute SLA, with hub-and-spoke aggregation for residency and PII.

  • Data Platform
  • Data Engineering
  • Performance Engineering
View
Manufacturing / IoT

Multi-region IoT hub & data platform

Global streaming and real-time analytics platform across 16+ locations and five regional hubs—cluster right-sizing for license inventory; roll-out on hyperscaler (including Chinese IaaS), on-prem, and edge; GA in ~3 months.

  • Platform Excellence
  • Data Platform
View
Capital markets

24×7 trading platform operations

Platform stability for core data & analytics infrastructure—Kafka, ClickHouse, Connect (including custom connectors), Flink. Bare-metal and container tuning, JMX heisenbug-class performance work. Incidents from 81 in the prior quarter to zero at 99.99% availability.

  • Platform Excellence
  • Performance Engineering
View
Manufacturing

System Twin — IoT

Architecture remediation for a manufacturing-execution streaming pipeline—lifecycle enrichment across global plants. Error rate from >5% to <0.5%, e2e latency from 120 minutes to <1 second, zero incidents over an operating year.

  • Performance Engineering
  • Platform Excellence
  • Data Engineering
View
Retail / QSR

Networked customer intelligence

Customer intelligence across QSR brands—real-time loyalty offers in-store, in-app, and in campaigns, while brand and CMO autonomy stay intact. Unified hub, high-cardinality feature store, golden products, propensity models, Reverse ETL to Braze and others.

  • Data Platform
  • AI/ML
  • Data Engineering
View
Telecommunications

Org-wide event backbone

Kafka adopted as the org-wide event backbone—billing with transactional guarantees, bi-directional active-active MySQL↔Oracle, mobile clickstream. Write scale to ~150 MB/s CDC and GB/s on network and clickstream; streaming MVs for billing reversal / reconciliation reporting.

  • Data Platform
  • Data Engineering
  • Modernization
View
Healthcare

Device telemetry — hub & spoke

Device telemetry over MQTT gateways in a regional hub-and-spoke design—real-time signals and historicals on one backbone; AsyncAPI for REST adoption. 500K+ devices globally; 30B+ events/day.

  • Data Platform
  • Data Engineering
View
Risk / Fraud

Real-time returns fraud detection

Returns-fraud decisioning with fail-closed sub-50ms p99 and fail-open batch paths—adaptive risk tree with rule CEP and Flink ML ensembles, RLHF continual learning on weighted real-time features. MVP with design partners in ~6 months.

  • AI/ML
  • Product Engineering
  • Performance Engineering
View
Growth / Advertising

Audience curation & attribution

Audience curation for exclusions and attribution reconciliation—pixel/beacon shim, probabilistic identity, SKU/inventory exclusion sync. MVP in 3 months; >40% demonstrated campaign budget savings and ROAS lift.

  • AI/ML
  • Product Engineering
  • Data Platform
View
Accessibility / Media

Real-time accessibility captioning

Core platform for FCC-approved ADA live captions on assisted calls—multi-lingual ASR, human-assisted / human-reviewed captioning, SIP trunking (Asterisk), Kamailio, homegrown WebRTC, E911 and messaging, plus new APIs and identity infrastructure.

  • Product Engineering
  • Modernization
  • Platform Excellence
View
D2C / Logistics

Routing & margin optimization

Fulfillment routing and margin optimization—carrier mix, node selection, promise date, last mile. When invoked: 34% 3PL/logistics cost savings while largely holding timeline SLAs.

  • AI/ML
  • Product Engineering
  • Data Engineering
View
Retail / eCommerce

Control Tower Operations: Supply Chain Optimization

Control-tower operations for last-mile fulfillment—manpower allocation and re-allocation. WMS and bespoke sensor/tag integration for SKU-level tracking; Pinot real-time MVs for delivery-throughput baselines; decision nudges to warehouse operators.

  • Product Engineering
  • AI/ML
  • Data Platform
View