MyWorkChoice, a workforce management SMB specializing in temporary staffing and shift-based workforce scheduling, partnered with Dualboot Partners to modernize its legacy platform on AWS.

The solution re-architected MyWorkChoice’s three-sided marketplace—connecting staffing agencies, client companies, and shift-based workers—into a cloud-native, containerized, and cost-optimized AWS platform.

Today, the platform manages millions of shift assignments annually across multiple regions, supporting real-time shift scheduling, background job processing, geolocation-based worker matching, and multi-channel communication between agencies, employers, and workers.

As MyWorkChoice expanded nationally, its legacy infrastructure struggled to support growing transaction volumes and real-time communication demands. Manual scaling, fragmented monitoring, and inconsistent cost management created operational bottlenecks and limited visibility into performance.

Additionally, the company needed a more automated, flexible environment to enable rapid geographic expansion while maintaining service reliability and cost control.

Key challenges included:

• Scalability: Application slowdowns during peak shift posting hours.
• Operational Overhead: Manual EC2 management and deployment complexity.
• Cost Inefficiency: Idle compute capacity during off-peak hours.
• Limited Observability: Lack of centralized monitoring and performance visibility.

Dualboot Partners modernized MyWorkChoice’s infrastructure by implementing a fully containerized workforce management platform on AWS, designed for auto-scaling, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.

Architecture Highlights

• Amazon ECS (Fargate): Orchestrates Rails APIs, React frontends, and Sidekiq background workers for automated scaling and zero-downtime rolling deployments.
• Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL + PostGIS): Centralized, highly available transactional database enabling geolocation-based worker-to-shift matching and reliability scoring.
• Amazon ElastiCache (Redis): Manages Sidekiq job queues and accelerates API responses across thousands of concurrent workers.
• Amazon S3: Stores profile photos, timecards, and reports with lifecycle policies for cost optimization.
• AWS Rekognition: Automates identity verification through facial recognition during worker onboarding.
• Amazon CloudWatch: Provides unified observability and alerts for ECS, RDS, and Redis metrics.
• AWS Secrets Manager & KMS: Handle secure credential storage and key management.
• AWS VPC, Route 53, and Elastic Load Balancing: Ensure secure, multi-AZ networking and traffic routing.

The modernization enabled MyWorkChoice to scale its marketplace nationwide while keeping infrastructure costs predictable and low. By leveraging AWS-managed services and automation, the company shifted engineering focus from maintenance to innovation, accelerating feature delivery and client onboarding.

The new AWS platform allows MyWorkChoice to support real-time workforce orchestration—connecting thousands of workers to open shifts instantly—while maintaining exceptional uptime and cost efficiency.

Amazon ECS (Fargate) | Amazon ECR | Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL + PostGIS) | Amazon ElastiCache (Redis) | AWS Rekognition | Amazon S3 | AWS Secrets Manager | AWS KMS | AWS CloudWatch | AWS IAM | AWS VPC | Route 53 | Elastic Load Balancing | Terraform IaC | GitLab CI/CD

Dualboot Partners is an AWS Advanced Tier Partner that helps small and medium-sized businesses modernize applications, improve scalability, and reduce costs through AWS-native architectures. With 400+ engineers across North and South America, Dualboot delivers modernization, AI, and data solutions that enable clients to scale faster and operate more efficiently on AWS.