November 20, 2025

Kidsoft

Screenshot of 2nd Generation Kidsoft UI.

Kidsoft is a SaaS application for managing childcare businesses at scale. It has thousands of customers, some managing hundreds of childcare centres.

I have been one of the senior developers working on Kidsoft for over 10 years. In that time, the team has grown from 3 full-stack devs up to 15 with specialised roles. Big things I’ve done along the way:

  • Mentored junior developers in software architecture and test-driven development.
  • Spearheaded migration of the frontend from jQuery to React
  • Maintained Linux server infrastucture on Amazon EC2
  • Maintained backward compatibility of financial calcualtions across multiple iterations of government policy trough automated regression testing.
  • Consulted for the QLD state government on refining their kindergarten funding policies.
  • Written and optimized highly complex SQL queries for advanced business intelligence reports.

Technologies used

  • PHP (custom backend framework)
  • jQuery (v1)
  • React (v2)
  • TailwindCSS (v2)
  • JavaScript/Typescript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Amazon AWS

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