Molekula

Context

At Molekula, I led technical strategy and delivery across global warehouses, sales teams, and compliance-heavy operations. The core problem was fragmented systems and inconsistent workflows between regions.

What I did

• Designed and built a Laravel-based ERP spanning Purchasing, Warehouse, Sales, Accounts, QA/QC, and Compliance.
• Replaced a patchwork of disconnected tooling with one coherent operational platform.
• Led migration and standardization of 20+ years of legacy business data, including acquisition-era records.
• Delivered secure, offline-capable print infrastructure (Docker + CUPS) for remote offices.
• Evolved warehouse tooling from Cordova apps to lightweight web-based microservices for faster rollout and maintenance.
• Directed broader infrastructure modernization across Digital Ocean, AWS backups, Office 365 migration, and physical/digital access systems.
• Built and mentored a distributed engineering team, while handling incident response and prioritization with directors and managers.

Outcomes

• Reduced sales onboarding from around two months to one week plus probation.
• Improved logistics throughput to enable same-day shipping for most stocked products.
• Recovered critical search visibility for the customer-facing website after a major ranking drop.
• Standardized identity and access processes across physical and digital systems.

Technical notes

• Core application stack: Laravel, MySQL, Redis-backed patterns, and internal service-style integrations.
• Infrastructure and operations: Digital Ocean, Laravel Forge, Docker, AWS (S3/SES), Ubuntu/Nginx/PHP-FPM.
• Delivery style: incremental replacement of brittle workflows with maintainable, auditable platform features.

Challenges

• Balancing compliance constraints with fast operational delivery.
• Keeping global teams aligned across time zones and legacy process differences.
• Managing always-on operational expectations while modernizing core systems.

Learnings

Long-running enterprise delivery succeeds when architecture, stakeholder communication, and team enablement move together rather than as separate tracks.