Product engineering case studies

Engineering in Practice

Two software platforms Plev designed, built, and operates. These are Plev-owned products, not client engagements — they show how we approach complex applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure.

Product engineering case study · Plev-owned product

CannaNiche — Integrated Business Operations Platform

  • Custom Software
  • Database Architecture
  • Systems Integration
  • APIs & Automation

The challenge

Cannabis businesses often run point of sale, online ordering, cultivation, and state compliance reporting in separate tools, re-entering the same data and reconciling it by hand.

Approach

Design one platform around a shared data model, so sales, inventory, and cultivation records feed each other, and treat regulatory reporting as an integration rather than a manual export.

Solution

  • Point of sale and e-commerce in one application.
  • Grow (cultivation) management.
  • State compliance reporting through METRC integrations.

Engineering outcomes

  • Multiple business areas served by a single platform and data model.
  • Compliance reporting connected to a third-party regulatory system.

What this demonstrates

End-to-end development of a complex, multi-module business application — data architecture, integrations with external systems, and workflows shaped by real operational and regulatory constraints.

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Product engineering case study · Plev-owned product

LegitUptime — Monitoring & Reliability Platform

  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Application Monitoring
  • Systems Integration
  • APIs & Automation

The challenge

Teams need to know when a website or service goes down, or a certificate is about to expire, before their customers notice.

Approach

Build a monitoring service that checks targets from multiple locations, alerts the right people through the channels they already use, and communicates status publicly.

Solution

  • Uptime checks from global ping locations.
  • Instant alerts, including Slack and Twilio integrations.
  • Public status pages.
  • SSL certificate expiry reminders.

Engineering outcomes

  • A running monitoring product with automated alerting.
  • Notifications delivered through third-party messaging integrations.

What this demonstrates

Experience with distributed infrastructure, scheduled automation, external API integrations, and the reliability practices Plev applies to the systems we build and support.

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