Newchip

The business

Before pivoting into an accelerator, the founder created Newchip "as a way to make wealth and investing more accessible to the masses, while also specifically targeting people his own age – millennials.". After raising $2M, and scale to 100,000+ users and 20,000,000 in transactions on app, it was later acquired

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There is no live url since the old project no longer exists as it pivoted! Newchip's newest endeavors can be found at newchip.com

Tasks & responsibilities

Firefighting would best describe the job! Back on those days Newchip was beginning to scale, but the code behind it wasn't yet that optimized for that, so the task here involved:

Patches & support in an urgent fashion, so as to sustain current users usage
Architecture review and rework in parallel, to introduce changes that would allow the backend to scale and handle more traffic/transactions in the future