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Full-Stack 2024 6 months 8 engineers

Kashier

Payment infrastructure work — WooCommerce plugins used by thousands of merchants, a URL shortener that cut SMS costs by 25%, and the documentation that made the whole thing easier to integrate.

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Full-Stack
Year
2024
Duration
6 months
Team
8 engineers
01 — Overview
01

Maintained WooCommerce payment plugins serving thousands of active merchants — a lot of careful bug-fixing to keep things working across the block editor and HPOS without breaking existing integrations

02

Built a URL shortener service that ended up saving ~25% on SMS costs platform-wide. Sounds like a small project, but when SMS volume is high the savings are real

03

Improved API and plugin documentation to the point where merchant integration support requests dropped noticeably — good docs are underrated

04

Fixed critical production bugs and kept system stability high across a payment platform where downtime directly costs merchants money

02 — The Problem
01

WooCommerce plugin compatibility with Gutenberg block editor and HPOS was fragile — each WordPress update was a potential regression for thousands of merchants

02

SMS-based payment notifications were expensive at scale. No one had looked at the actual cost per message until the bill landed

03

API documentation was incomplete and inconsistent, creating support overhead every time a new merchant tried to integrate

03 — The Solution
01

Refactored WooCommerce plugins to be block-editor-compatible and HPOS-ready, with a test suite covering the most common regression paths so updates stopped being scary

02

Built a URL shortener with redirect tracking — short enough for SMS, with analytics attached. The 25% cost reduction was a side effect of doing it properly

03

Rewrote the integration documentation from scratch, covering auth flows, webhook contracts, and error handling with real examples instead of vague descriptions

04 — Key Outcomes
01

URL shortener reduced SMS costs by ~25% platform-wide — measurable ROI from a 2-week project

02

Zero critical plugin regressions after block-editor compatibility refactor shipped

03

Merchant integration support requests dropped after documentation rewrite

04

Production payment platform stability maintained for thousands of active merchants