Cynoia | Scaling a Collaborative SaaS Platform

Cynoia is a collaborative SaaS workspace that brings communication, project management, customer interactions, and team operations into one product. The platform serves startups, SMEs, and growing teams that need a more connected way to run their work.

I joined Cynoia on a 9-month engagement focused on making the platform more scalable, able to support a growing active-user base, and better positioned for its fundraising goals. During this period, the platform reached 8,000+ active users and secured $933,000 in funding.

I worked as a Full-Stack Engineer and Platform Architect, contributing across product delivery and platform evolution:

Refined and implemented UI/UX for complex product workflows

Built frontend and backend features

Helped evolve the platform from a monolith toward microservices

Improved authentication, authorization, API integrations, and real-time services

Supported infrastructure scalability, cloud deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability work

As the product and team grew, the monolithic architecture created constraints around deployment, maintainability, feature complexity, and scaling individual services. The platform also needed secure multi-tenant access controls and reliable real-time collaboration.

I helped transition core services toward a microservices architecture. I designed an extensible MySQL database for the project-management service and built and maintained services with NestJS and TypeORM.

I engineered an API gateway and WebSocket server, integrating RabbitMQ for real-time communication and message handling across services. I also implemented caching approaches across backend and frontend queries.

I translated product designs into responsive interfaces with React, MUI, and Tailwind CSS. On the application layer, I integrated backend APIs with Redux Toolkit Query to support efficient data fetching and state management.

My work covered JWT authentication, role-based access control, multi-tenant authorization, secure API access, CI/CD, cloud deployments, and production reliability improvements.

Over the 9-month engagement, the work created a more modular foundation for independent deployments, service isolation, ongoing maintenance, and future scale. It supported Cynoia’s effort to build a platform capable of serving more active users as the company pursued fundraising, during a period when the product reached 8,000+ active users and secured $933,000 in funding.

React, TypeScript, NestJS, Node.js, MySQL, TypeORM, RabbitMQ, Redux Toolkit Query, MUI, Tailwind CSS, Docker, CI/CD, JWT, RBAC, microservices, and event-driven services.