Software Engineer · SDE-2Design & Develop
A collaboration platform for designers and developers to discover, showcase their work, pitch ideas, and find people to build with.
Designers and developers, in the same place.
Designers and developers often need each other, but they don’t always have a good place to find people based on their actual work.
Design & Develop brought profiles, projects, discovery and collaboration into one place. Your profile showed what you had built, so someone could see your work before deciding to build something with you — and an idea could be pitched to the people with the skills it needed.
The whole product, end to end.
- 01
Product & UI
Turned the idea into requirements and product flows, and designed the interface for both designers and developers.
- 02
Frontend
Built the React frontend for profiles, projects, discovery and collaboration, and connected each flow to the backend.
- 03
Backend
Built the Node.js / Express APIs and the MongoDB data model behind users, profiles, projects and collaboration — so the product ran on connected data, not static pages.
- 04
Deployment
Deployed the frontend to Netlify and ran the backend as a separate service.
Learning by building all of it.
Because I owned the design, frontend, backend, database and deployment, I started seeing the product as one system instead of separate pieces. A decision in one layer usually showed up in another.