Red Eye Tickets.
Built for the night.
A live ticketing platform designed around buyers, producers, operations teams and the front door.
- My role
- Co-Founder & CTO / Sole technical contributor
- Context
- January 2024–present / Custom launch Oct. 2025
- Medium
- Product / Interaction / Full-stack engineering
Design for
the real world.
Red Eye began as a ticketing business with a WordPress MVP. I rebuilt it as a custom platform shaped around the people using it: buyers checking out, producers managing events, administrators handling support and staff admitting guests.
The contribution
As the sole technical contributor, I owned product direction, workflow discovery, architecture, full-stack implementation, operational tools and production support. The product was shaped with my co-founders, the operations team, producers and direct observation at live events.
At the front door
When the line is moving, a staff member needs an immediate answer. The successful scan state puts a clear admission decision on screen. Event controls and manual entry provide a recovery path when camera scanning is unavailable or inappropriate.
Beyond the interface
The experience connects checkout, payments, inventory, mobile admissions, refunds and reporting. Those workflows need to share a dependable view of an order rather than become separate screens with competing answers.
End-to-end product ownership. Sole technical contributor describes my engineering scope. The business and its requirements were shaped collaboratively. No improvement percentages or business outcomes are attributed to the design here.
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