TailorCV: Multi-tenant Career Platform Architecture

Context

TailorCV needed a strong technical foundation for a product serving multiple organizations with different workflows, permissions, and visibility rules. The initial objective was to ship quickly while avoiding the common multi-tenant mistakes that force expensive rewrites later.

Constraints

• Launch timeline was aggressive.
• Authorization rules were complex across roles and organizations.
• Product workflows had to be traceable for support and compliance conversations.

Architecture Highlights

• Tenant-aware data boundaries at query and service layers.
• RBAC model aligned with real user responsibilities, not generic role labels.
• Audit logging around critical actions (approvals, transitions, privileged operations).
• Event-driven workflow updates to keep UI state and backend state consistent.

Grounded Proof Points

• Owned the architecture baseline end-to-end, including tenant boundaries, authorization rules, and delivery sequencing.
• Delivered core platform foundations under aggressive MVP timelines while keeping the system ready for post-launch expansion.
• Worked with a distributed product/engineering context where supportability and auditability had to be built in from day one.

Key Decisions

• Chose a strict domain model before broad feature expansion.
• Prioritized secure workflow primitives (permissions, approvals, logs) in the first phase.
• Kept user-facing flows simple while backend rules remained explicit and testable.

What I Owned

• End-to-end architecture design and technical direction.
• Core backend implementation patterns and data model boundaries.
• Delivery sequencing for MVP scope and follow-on scalability work.

Outcome

The platform launched quickly with a technical base that remained stable as user volume and workflow complexity increased. Instead of rewriting core systems, the team could iterate on product capabilities and customer-specific workflows from a reliable foundation.