Client Portal

A production client portal I inherited and now look after as the primary developer. The front end is TypeScript and React over a Python and FastAPI back end, and it leans on six separate third-party integrations to do its job.

Taking over software you did not write is its own skill, and nobody really teaches it. Before I could add anything I had to read, the way you read a map of a city you just moved to. How requests flow. Where each integration is wired in. Which parts are load-bearing, and which are leftovers nobody has touched in years. Most of the early work was building that map and tightening the seams. It is the project that taught me how much of real engineering is careful archaeology before any new code gets written.