Kidsoft
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