Cycleo

Overview

Cycleo runs bike-sharing fleets across three cities. Growth had outpaced its original monolith: deploys were scary, outages clustered at rush hour, and every new feature took longer than the last.

As product and technology lead, I set the technical direction, split the critical paths into independent services, and coached the in-house team to own the new architecture.

Challenge

A system that fails at peak demand, a team afraid to deploy, and a roadmap that couldn't wait for a full rewrite — the transformation had to happen while the bikes kept moving.

Approach

Strangler-fig migration: new services peeled off one boundary at a time behind the live system, each with its own deploys, dashboards, and rollback. No big-bang rewrite, no downtime windows.