Paul S.

Warranty Checkout Migration

A staged migration that launched a migrated checkout flow, generated $500K+ in the first two months, and reduced checkout latency from ~30s to under 5s.

Context

Warranty checkout ran on a legacy stack with ~30s end-to-end latency and limited operational visibility. It was a meaningful revenue stream that we wanted to migrate onto the modern commerce platform without disrupting customers.

Problem

We needed to migrate the warranty flow onto the new cart-checkout platform, hold a steady revenue line during cutover, and reduce checkout latency enough to actually feel different to users.

What I did

  • Modeled the warranty checkout flow on the new platform, including pricing rules, eligibility, and downstream order workflows.
  • Built a staged cutover: dual-running, percentage ramp, kill-switch, and clear rollback steps.
  • Designed dashboards and alerts focused on the cutover — error taxonomy, latency percentiles, and revenue parity.
  • Worked with product, support, and partner engineering teams to handle edge cases before they reached customers.

Result

  • Generated $500K+ in revenue in the first two months on the migrated flow.
  • Reduced checkout latency from ~30s to under 5s.
  • Established a reusable migration template for the next flows.

Tech

  • Kotlin
  • GraphQL
  • Commercetools
  • Stripe
  • Affirm
  • AWS
  • EKS
  • Datadog
  • PagerDuty