When the New World Trading Company pitched their idea to me as "A bit like the sorting hat from Harry Potter," I was in. Realizing that this meant connecting to an HR API, building an admin dashboard, and exporting everything daily to a third party made me a bit more hesitant!

The most important part of the project was helping to strip back the requirements to create a foundation that covered what the client really needed, leaving plenty of room for future additions. I chose Firebase as the backend, allowing me to quickly create and push features. For the front-end, I utilized a React, TypeScript, and Styled Components template I had created for exactly this purpose.

The hardest part of the project was working with live data that needed to be updated and manipulated daily. The key to tackling this was creating logs of performed operations and regular backups for the worst-case scenario. Writing about this project without using more Harry Potter puns was the real challenge.

As employee number one I created the frontend from scratch working with stakeholders to quickly iterate on the product whilst maintaining a solid technical foundation.

• I was in charge of the architecture and implementation for all front end projects.
• Onboarded and mentored new developers
• Created a design system and component library to easily integrate with the design team
• Created am editor to allow the rest of the team to quickly and easily iterate on our bespoke schema system