Happy

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Happy is a personalized, highly effective coaching platform backed by DISC that improves team collaboration, communication, and leadership skills.

Highlights

  • Led the frontend development of a SaaS web app, utilizing Vue.js and TypeScript.
  • Owned the frontend architecture and development lifecycle, ensuring the web app’s performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
  • Owned the app's UI component layer in Vue and Tailwind, deciding the responsive behavior, interaction states, and accessibility details the static designs left open.
  • Designed and implemented maintainable APIs in Vue.js applications by organizing API calls for reusability, using Pinia for efficient state management.
  • Wrote unit tests for the Vue app using Vitest, enhancing code reliability and quality.
  • Deployed the web app using AWS Amplify.

Technology

  • AWS Amplify - cloud services and libraries for fullstack application development
  • Google Analytics - web analytics service tracking traffic and engagement
  • Google Tag Manager - manages tracking scripts without code changes
  • Stripe.js - Stripe's browser-side JavaScript library
  • Tailwind CSS - CSS framework
  • TypeScript - strongly typed programming language
  • Vue.js - Progressive JavaScript framework

Design engineering & AI

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