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How We Scaled A Virtual Top-Up Platform To Millions

A deep dive into the engineering roadmap that let us relaunch a leading airtime marketplace with enterprise-grade resiliency.

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Adeyemi Paul Damilola

Adeyemi Paul Damilola

CEO, Nuvance Tech

Jan 2025•6 min readcase study
How We Scaled A Virtual Top-Up Platform To Millions

The challenge

A national airtime and data reseller wanted to consolidate disconnected reseller portals into one modern experience without interrupting ongoing transactions.

We inherited a monolithic PHP system struggling with queue backlogs and manual settlement. Merchants demanded faster wallet funding, automated reconciliation, and a path to new revenue streams like gifting and recurring bundles.

How we solved it

We carved the core service into event-driven microservices, streamlining wallet operations, catalogue management, and audit trails. A Flutter-powered agent app launched alongside a back-office control tower built with NestJS and PostgreSQL.

Real-time fraud signals run via Redis streams, while analytics dashboards surface margin, churn, and liquidity alerts to business operators.

Impact

Within ten weeks, 12 million wallets migrated with zero downtime. Fraud detection windows dropped from five minutes to under sixty seconds, weekly release cadences became the norm, and partner integrations accelerated via documented APIs.

“Nuvance orchestrated the migration like a military operation. Our airtime outages vanished overnight and our roadmap finally moves again.”

- Chief Digital Officer, Confidential Aggregator
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