From concept to production in 10 weeks. Architecture chosen up-front, not retrofitted.
A US-based early-stage startup needed their core SaaS built fast — without the architectural debt that kills the second year. Ciemasen designed and shipped the full stack: .NET backend, Angular front-end, Azure deployment, and CI/CD from day one.
Speed without compromising the second year.
The founding team had funding pressure to demo a working product to investors, and a small enough engineering bench that they couldn't afford a rewrite at month nine. They needed the system to be quick to ship — and quick to extend.
Most early SaaS projects pay for short-term speed with year-two paralysis: routes tangle, the data model fights the code, and every release breaks something downstream. The constraint here was to avoid that outcome from week one, while still hitting an investor-ready deadline.
Architecture before features.
Three decisions made in week one that the product is still benefiting from today.
Module boundaries first
The .NET layered structure and Angular feature folders were designed before the first feature was written. Growth didn't tangle the codebase because the shape of the system was decided up-front, not discovered later under pressure.
Deployment from day one
Azure App Service and a GitHub Actions pipeline ran from week one. Every commit went through the same path as production, so the deploy story was proven long before the system carried any real users.
Operational tooling shipped with the product
Logs, health checks, and runtime configuration were baked in from the first release — not retrofitted under incident pressure. The team has the signal it needs to operate the system without paging an engineer.
Outcomes that held up
Delivery numbers and operational reality — not vanity metrics.
The system has been in production since launch and is still extended by the original architecture. The team adds features without paying down structural debt — because the structure was right the first time.
What it's built on.
Tech chosen for the constraints of this product — not for resume novelty. Each piece earned its place by reducing a real risk.
Core stack
.NET on the backend
Layered structure, typed contracts between layers, and a data model designed before the first endpoint was written.
Angular on the front-end
Feature folders, signal-based state, lazy-loaded routes. The structure scales as the product grows — no rewrite needed at month nine.
Azure + CI/CD from day one
Azure App Service for hosting, Azure SQL for data, GitHub Actions for the pipeline. Every commit takes the production path; nothing is surprise-deployed under pressure.
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