Three platforms. Five years. Same partner.
When IEE first hired us, they were a credential evaluation business running on legacy software that couldn't scale. Five years and two major platform iterations later, we're still their team. Today IEE's modern, AWS-backed SaaS platform powers credential evaluations for educational institutions and law firms across the world.
NestJS
NextJS
MongoDB
Elasticsearch + Kibana
AWS ECS / S3 / CloudFront
Lambda / EventBridge
Payload CMS
Stripe
Slate API
goShippo
Kafka
PROBLEM
International credential evaluation is brutally complex
A law firm in Houston needs to verify a Bangladeshi medical degree. A university in Toronto needs to translate a Russian high school transcript. Every country has different academic structures, grading systems, and certification standards.
IEE's existing tools couldn't handle the volume, integrate with payment processors, or sync with law firms' existing systems. The platform was operational but inflexible — every new partner institution required manual setup.
They needed true SaaS infrastructure built for global scale.
V1 — Laravel SaaS foundation
Credential evaluation workflows, payment processing (Stripe + ActiveCampaign), goShippo for document shipping, and Clio integration for law firms.
V2 — Modern stack rebuild
NestJS + NextJS + MongoDB + Elasticsearch on AWS (ECS, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, EventBridge). A complete platform re-architecture.
Lyrical — automated evaluation engine
IEE's flagship: automated credential reports, subject-wise grading, GPA conversions, and certificate generation — replacing days of manual work.
Multi-tenant institution platform
CMS, institution onboarding, and multi-tenant pricing. New partner schools live in hours, not weeks.
Live legacy → modern data migration
Thousands of historical orders migrated from V1 to V2 — without losing a single record and without service disruption.
hard parts
The hard parts we had to solve
On five years of working together — and counting.
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Heidi Haynes
Managing Director, IEE · Charlotte, North Carolina
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