CORVX

Vietnam (Southeast Asia Hub):
Vincom Landmark 81 (72/F), 720A Điện Biên Phủ, Phường 22, Bình Thạnh, Ho Chi Minh City.

United States (North America Hub):
17875 Von Karman Avenue, Suites 150 & 250, Irvine, CA 92614.

InsurTech

Scaling a High-Growth Insurance Marketplace

When growth exceeds technical capacity, you need a strategic pivot—not just more developers.

Scaling a High-Growth Insurance Marketplace

Corvx helped a fast-growing insurance marketplace that had outgrown its own technology. With 1,500+ products, millions in premiums, and a PHP backend that couldn't keep up, we deployed a dedicated engineering squad in two weeks and executed a full-stack modernization to high-concurrency Go-Lang—allowing the platform to scale 10x without becoming its own bottleneck.

The client operates one of Southeast Asia's largest digital insurance marketplaces, aggregating policies from 40+ underwriters. Their platform had grown from a scrappy MVP to a market leader processing over $30M in annual premiums. But the PHP monolith that got them there was now the ceiling on their growth—page loads exceeded 6 seconds during campaigns, and the codebase had become nearly impossible to maintain.

What stood in the way

01

PHP Backend at Capacity

The monolithic PHP application couldn't handle concurrent traffic spikes during promotional campaigns, leading to cart abandonment rates exceeding 35% during peak periods.

02

Developer Velocity at a Standstill

A tangled codebase with minimal test coverage meant every new feature risked breaking existing functionality. The internal team was spending 60% of their time on bug fixes instead of building new products.

03

Urgent Need for Engineering Talent

The client needed 8 senior engineers immediately but couldn't hire fast enough in a competitive market. Every week of delay was costing them market share.

How we solved it

Rapid Team Deployment

We assembled and onboarded a dedicated 8-person engineering squad—backend, frontend, QA, and DevOps—within 14 days. The team embedded into the client's Agile ceremonies from day one.

Go-Lang Migration

We migrated the core comparison engine and checkout flow from PHP to Go-Lang, achieving 12x improvement in concurrent request handling. API response times dropped from 2.4 seconds to 180 milliseconds.

Automated QA Pipeline

Introduced a comprehensive test automation framework with 85% code coverage, reducing regression testing from 3 days to 4 hours per release cycle.

Within six months, the platform handled 10x its previous peak traffic without degradation. Cart abandonment during campaigns dropped from 35% to under 8%, and the development team shipped features 3x faster.

12x
Improvement in Concurrency
14 days
Team Deployment Time
180ms
API Response Time (from 2.4s)
3x
Faster Feature Delivery

Built with

Backend

  • Go-Lang
  • gRPC
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

Frontend

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • TailwindCSS

Infrastructure

  • AWS (ECS, Aurora, CloudFront)
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions

QA & Monitoring

  • Cypress
  • k6 Load Testing
  • Datadog
  • PagerDuty

Parallel Build & Migrate

Week 1-2: Team Assembly

2 weeks

Talent sourcing, vetting, and onboarding. Daily standups integrated with client's existing sprint cadence.

Month 1-2: Critical Path First

2 months

Migrated the comparison engine and checkout—the two highest-traffic, highest-revenue paths—to Go-Lang behind a feature flag.

Month 3-4: Full Migration

2 months

Remaining services migrated. Old PHP services decommissioned. Automated test coverage reached 85%.

Month 5-6: Optimization

2 months

Performance tuning, CDN optimization, and database query analysis. Prepared infrastructure for 10x growth.

What we brought to the table

Rapid Team Build

Dedicated engineering squad deployed in two weeks to maintain velocity.

Stack Modernization

Migration from monolithic PHP to scalable, concurrent Go-Lang architecture.

Quality Assurance

Comprehensive test automation ensuring zero regression during transition.

Agile Delivery with Embedded Teams

Our engineers didn't work in a silo—they embedded into the client's existing Agile ceremonies, shared Slack channels, and participated in code reviews. The result was a team that felt like one unit, not two companies.

They were responsive, delivered high-quality work on time and within budget. We couldn't tell where our team ended and theirs began. Very reliable with their delivery promises.
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