Transforming Digitoo's MVP into a Scalable Customer-Facing Platform

Context:

Responsibilities:

• – Spearheaded the migration of the legacy React app to Next.js, enabling server-side rendering and scalability.
• – Refactored large parts of the legacy codebase, significantly improving maintainability, performance, and readability.
• – Transitioned from Material-UI to TailwindCSS for faster performance and a more modern UI.
• – Modernized the years-old Nx monorepo setup, streamlining development workflows.
• – Developed reusable UI components with TailwindCSS to speed up feature development.
• – Collaborated with designers and backend developers to implement and optimize core features, ensuring seamless integration.
• – Helped with migration of company website from Vue.js to Next.js and continued development of it

Impact & Achievements:

• – Overhauled the legacy React codebase, transitioning it to modern React and improving maintainability and performance.
• – Initiated and completed a partial migration to Next.js, reducing page load times and boosting SEO.
• – Delivered three major features (~8,000 lines of code each), contributing directly to onboarding 40+ new clients.
• – Built a reusable component library, reducing development time for new features.
• – Helped increase frontend testing coverage, ensuring higher-quality releases and fewer production bugs.
• – Developed and delivered a couple of landing pages for marketing purposes
• – Helped finish redesign and migration of company website from Vue.js to Next.js

Key Learnings:

• – Developed skills in performance optimization and server-side rendering with Next.js, ensuring scalable, high-performance apps.
• – Gained a deeper understanding of aligning technical decisions with business goals in high-pressure startup environments.
• – Learned how to implement and maintain efficient project setups, enabling better collaboration and long-term scalability.