Problem
Businesses needed a usable way to accept digital-asset payments without surrendering custody of funds or assembling wallets, payment links, invoices, webhooks and merchant operations from separate tools.
01 / CASE STUDY
Fintech infrastructure · Production platform
Auras Pay
A non-custodial crypto payment platform built from zero to production for merchants operating across online and physical commerce.
RoleCTO · Principal architect · Core developer
StatusLive production platform
TimelineApproximately six months to production-ready
01 / CONTEXTThe problem
The problem
behind the product.
Approach
I translated the commercial model into a merchant-controlled payment architecture, then built the majority of the product surface: payment flows, merchant dashboard, integration layer, operational tooling and deployment path.
02 / SYSTEMArchitecture,
Architecture,
not magic.
01Merchant interface→
02Payment orchestration→
03Wallet routing→
04Webhooks & APIs→
05Operational monitoring
Constraints
- Small early-stage team
- Security-sensitive payment flows
- Pre-revenue product validation
- Multiple merchant use cases
My ownership
- Defined the technical roadmap and platform boundaries
- Built more than 80% of the product hands-on
- Designed payment links, QR/POS, invoicing and merchant workflows
- Owned integration, deployment and production-readiness decisions
03 / EVIDENCEWhat can be
What can be
defended.
2,800 registered users from early advertising
More than 80% built personally
Production-ready in roughly six months
Non-custodial settlement to merchant-controlled wallets
What I would improve now.
The next engineering phase is deeper observability, stronger automated risk controls and disciplined scaling around verified merchant usage—not feature volume for its own sake.
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