
Red Eye Tickets
Built and operate a Rails, React, and PostgreSQL event-commerce platform where payments, scarce inventory, ticket delivery, and venue admission must remain in sync.
The case covers user and operator discovery, product decisions, transactional state, partial-failure recovery, testing, incidents, controlled releases, and production improvement.
- Production scale
- 285 sales-generating events · 28.5K+ paid orders · 42.7K+ tickets sold · $1.44M+ in captured customer charges
- Role
- Co-Founder & CTO · Sole technical contributor · January 2024–present
- Context
- Custom platform launched October 2025



