One Door Cut Query Times by 50% While Syncing Millions of Records

One Door builds retail merchandising software that helps brands and retailers execute at scale. Their platform manages complex data workflows across thousands of store locations, where reliable data synchronization and fast reporting are the product.
BEON.tech has been scaling their engineering team since September 2021. Five engineers have been contributing to a platform that keeps getting faster, more reliable, and more capable.

About One Door

One Door provides a cloud-based merchandising platform that helps brands and retailers plan, execute, and track in-store experiences across thousands of locations. Their software connects complex data workflows with the operational reality of large retail networks.

Partner SinceSeptember 2021
One Door Team51–200
BEON Team5 full-time engineers
Time to Hire4 weeks
Tech StackRuby on Rails · React · DevOps · MERN
EngagementIT Staff Augmentation
Total Funding Amount$23.5M
THE CHALLENGE

Evolving the database architecture for scale.

One Door’s platform processes and synchronizes millions of records across retail networks. As the product grew, so did the complexity of keeping that data reliable, accessible, and performant. Large tables were becoming bottlenecks, export processes were slowing down, and the team needed senior engineering support to improve performance without disrupting ongoing delivery.

THE SOLUTION

Long-Term Engineering Excellence: How BEON.tech Scaled One Door’s Core Platform Capacity

BEON.tech helped One Door expand its engineering capacity in just four weeks. The partnership grew into a long-term collaboration over time, with engineers becoming deeply embedded in One Door’s workflows and contributing across nearly five years of product evolution.

Each engineer went through BEON's full vetting process before joining. The platform's complexity demanded developers who could ramp up quickly and take ownership of specific areas independently.

DELIVERY IN ACTION

Key Engineering Contributions

BEONers assisted on the full stack of One Door's retail merchandising platform, tackling both foundational infrastructure work and new product capabilities.

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION

High-Efficiency Query & Cost Optimization

Optimize data export queries by more than 50%, through complex SQL logic that made data processing workflows significantly more efficient, reduced processing costs, and kept reliable data available for client-facing reporting.

ANALYTICS & REPORTING

Store Insights Application Development

Build Store Insights, a reporting application focused on data visibility and analytics which includes data model design, export and transformation pipelines, and a platform to track data updates and synchronization processes.

SCALABILITY & PERFORMANCE

Enterprise Data Synchronization Engine

Scale the data synchronization platform to reliably handle millions of records, including large table partitioning and architectural improvements that made the system more robust at scale.

INTERNAL AI INNOVATION

AI Knowledge Base and Agentic Tooling

Build an AI knowledge tool that centralizes team knowledge as reusable skills for AI agents, making information easier to access and use across the engineering team.

DEVOPS & PLATFORM RELIABILITY

Operational Infrastructure Enhancement

Strengthen DevOps infrastructure, improving deployment reliability and operational stability across the platform.

RESULTS

50% Faster Queries and Reliable Sync Across Millions of Records

Rapid Multi-Disciplinary Hiring

5 engineers placed across Ruby on Rails, React, DevOps, and MERN in 4 weeks

Accelerated Query Processing

50%+ improvement in query performance on data export processes

Large-Scale Data Synchronization

Millions of records synchronized reliably after database architecture improvements including large table partitioning

End-to-End Analytics Platform Launch

Store Insights reporting application built and delivered end-to-end

Agentic AI Workflow Enablement

AI knowledge tooling built to support team-wide AI agent workflows

Sustainable Multi-Year Collaboration

Nearly 5 years of ongoing partnership with engineers still active since September 2021

Technologies Used
WHAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE

Why The One Door Partnership Worked

One Door’s platform requires engineers who can build context before moving fast. The BEON engineers learned the system’s logic, integrations, and workflows until they could take ownership with confidence.
Within the first month, engineers were taking responsibility for specific areas of the application and contributing independently.

A Top-Tier Talent Experience Management™ Framework for Long-Term Success

Nearly five years into the partnership, engineers placed by BEON are still active contributors to One Door's platform. That longevity isn't accidental. BEON.tech's Talent Experience Management™ Framework is what keeps engineers engaged and performing over the long term:

Performance

Keeping engineers accountable to a high delivery bar on a platform where data reliability directly affects retail operations at scale.

Experience

Supporting engineers across five different countries so they feel connected, valued, and set up to do their best work regardless of location.

Growth

Helping engineers deepen their expertise in complex systems over time, turning platform knowledge into a competitive advantage for the whole team.

Be Our Next Success Story

If your platform is growing faster than your engineering capacity, BEON.tech can scale your team with the right engineers, in the right roles, as fast as four weeks.

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