Case Studies

Proven Delivery Outcomes

Real projects, real constraints, and measurable impact across cloud migrations, platform modernization, and software delivery.

Art & Commerce

Fine's Gallery Platform Modernization

Fine’s Gallery began with a catalog-only website: customers could browse thousands of high-value products, but they could not complete payment online. Sales happened through staff, phone, email, showroom conversations, FileMaker, and disconnected vendor tools. I built the first transactional commerce and operations platform inside the client’s own AWS Organization. It now supports millions in annual revenue, including six-figure monthly commerce volume; migrated 28,062 invoices and more than 20 years of operating history without loss or duplicate invoice numbers; and cut over with zero downtime. The custom quote, deposit, ACH, wire, check, signature, fulfillment, acquisition-feed, and staff workflows are now operated through a Fractional CTO retainer.

Annual commerce volume: Millions in annual revenue
User acquisition lift: +40%

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Art & Commerce

Fine's Gallery: An AI Operations Agent for Real Work

In six weeks, I deployed a single-tenant AI operations agent inside Fine's Gallery's AWS organization. Operated from Slack, its business-specific capabilities investigate production systems, analyze cost, prepare CMS and engineering changes, and route high-impact actions through human approval—while keeping the model layer replaceable and access expandable per capability.

Deployment boundary: Dedicated client environment
Operational capability: Operations, content, and engineering

Confidential

Energy

Confidential Energy Registry Architecture

Lead architect on a regulated energy-sector certificate registry. Designed and built the replacement for a managed SaaS ledger platform with a client-owned PostgreSQL system. Five database-owned write functions hold the entire authoritative mutation surface. Append-only canonical ledger with a blockchain-style UTXO model and double-entry credit/debit postings, validated by a comprehensive integration test suite against real PostgreSQL.

Authoritative ledger surface: 5 stored functions covering the entire authoritative write surface
Integration test coverage: 100+ integration tests across 8 suites, all against real PostgreSQL

Software & Cloud Consulting

Peter T Conti Consulting Platform

The consulting practice's own site, built as the reference architecture for what the practice sells. Same Next.js + Payload + Postgres + ECS Fargate + Terraform stack as the anchor engagement. STS-only IAM, no long-lived credentials anywhere. Cost-tuned to run for a small fraction of the naive default AWS footprint, with full editorial workflow operated as code.

Stack: Next.js + Payload + AWS ECS + AWS Lambda + RDS Postgres
Infrastructure as code: Full AWS footprint Terraform-managed in modules; CI-only apply

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