Badgerlane
End-to-end product, platform, and business leadership for an independently built fintech application.
Problem
A financial-planning product has to make monthly cash flow understandable and actionable while protecting trust across connected financial data, billing, authentication, and internal operations.
My contribution
I took Badgerlane from product definition through architecture, product design, full-stack development, automated testing, AWS deployment, and ongoing operations while leading product strategy, pre-seed fundraising preparation, investor pitches, vendor relations, and budgeting.
Technology
The product and platform use React, Express, PostgreSQL with Drizzle, Python services, Stripe and Quiltt integrations, Docker, Terraform, and AWS platform services.
Decisions
I designed explicit trust and failure boundaries across onboarding, financial-data aggregation, rule-based monthly planning, subscription billing, authentication, role-aware operations, and tenant boundaries, including fail-closed routing when cash-flow confidence is insufficient.
Implemented capability
I built guarded delivery and recovery paths with Docker, Terraform, and AWS ECS, including environment-specific release controls, pre-cutover database migrations, health checks, rollback paths, backups, and restore planning.
Future direction
Continued product and operating-system refinement is planned; this record does not publish feature commitments, delivery dates, or a commercial roadmap.
Hiring relevance
The work demonstrates current end-to-end engineering judgment where product experience, platform reliability, security boundaries, business rules, integrations, and operations have to remain coherent.