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Rebuilding a legacy dashboard for scale

Migrated a monolithic admin panel to a modular Next.js architecture, cutting page load times and engineering onboarding time.

CLIENT
Novaline Systems
ROLE
Lead engineer
TIMELINE
10 weeks
CHALLENGE

The client's admin dashboard had grown organically over four years into a single monolithic React application with no clear module boundaries. Every new feature risked regressions elsewhere, deploys took over 20 minutes, and onboarding a new engineer took a month before they could ship safely.

SOLUTION

I led a phased migration to a modular Next.js architecture with clear domain boundaries, incrementally rewriting high-traffic modules first while keeping the legacy app live in production. Data access was consolidated behind a typed API layer backed by PostgreSQL, and the deployment pipeline moved to Vercel with preview environments for every PR.

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLVercel
OUTCOME
↓ 68%
page load time
4 min
average deploy time
1 week
new-engineer onboarding

The client's team now ships multiple times a day with confidence, and the modular structure has supported three major feature launches since handoff without architectural rework.

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