Case Study
Healthcare SaaS Platform
A healthcare SaaS platform needed added engineering capacity to improve throughput, maintain delivery, and support a later acquisition.
Industry
HealthTech
Scope
Software Engineering
Team structure
Lead developer, senior developers, and project management
What the team needed
Improving speed and delivery inside a healthcare SaaS platform
Challenge
A SaaS healthcare technology platform was used by physician organizations to manage value-based programs. The team needed additional engineering capacity to accelerate feature development, optimize critical system performance, and maintain code quality across a growing platform. Engineering leadership needed engineers who could work directly inside the existing team without introducing process overhead.
Silicon Development's role
Silicon Development augmented the engineering team with development and project management support, working directly with engineering leadership on feature development, code optimization, and bug fixing.
What Silicon Development worked on
A summary of the work the team owned during the engagement.
Migrated the rules engine from a monolithic Ruby application to a standalone Java Drools service
Improved rules engine performance by 19x, reducing a 10-hour import process to under 90 minutes
Supported the engineering work that helped the company reach acquisition
What changed
The platform shipped faster, resolved critical performance bottlenecks, and supported a successful acquisition while the engineers worked inside the existing team.
Key points
- Delivered a 19x rules engine performance improvement
- Reduced a 10-hour import workflow to under 90 minutes
- Supported acquisition readiness through embedded execution
The outcome matters, but the operating model is the real point
These results came from engineers working inside the team with real ownership and day-to-day accountability.