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Past project
AuroraJobs
A full stack job board with Ruby on Rails: search, alerts, company portal and CMS. A complete product, built as the sole developer after initial mentoring from the CTO.
What needed solving
Generalist job boards mix everything with everything. AuroraJobs explored a more focused space, with careful search and alerts that actually helped.
Who it's for
People looking for a job and companies posting openings.
What I did
- Full product development: models, search, alerts, internal dashboard, company portal and CMS.
- Mentoring two junior developers and running SCRUM.
- Deployment and running it in production (Kubernetes).
- Product decisions alongside the team: what to build and what to drop.
Decisions that mattered
- Monolithic Rails with Stimulus: development speed over sophisticated architecture.
- Search as the product's centerpiece, not an added filter.
- Email alerts as the main channel to bring users back.
What came of it
- A complete product running in production for years.
- Lanzadera incubator program in 2022.
- The experience that consolidated my full stack years and how I work with product.
Technologies
- Ruby on Rails
- MySQL
- StimulusJS
- TailwindCSS
- Kubernetes
- RSpec