Case study2024
NXT Hiring Platform
A full-stack hiring platform MVP taken from concept to production — architecture, API, database, UI and Google Cloud deployment.
- Client
- OAK'S LAB
- Role
- Full-stack engineer
- Period
- 2024 – 2025
- concept to production
- 0 → 1
- architecture to deployment
- Full stack
Context
NXT needed a hiring platform MVP: something real enough to put in front of users and validate the idea, built fast but without painting the product into a corner.
My role
I owned the MVP from start to finish:
- Architecture — picked a pragmatic, type-safe stack that lets an MVP move quickly.
- Backend & database — designed the data model and API.
- Frontend — built the product UI in React and TypeScript.
- Deployment — shipped it to Google Cloud.
Why a type-safe full stack
For an MVP with evolving requirements, the most expensive bugs are mismatches between frontend and backend. An end-to-end typed setup (tRPC with Prisma) means a change to the data model shows up as a compile error in the UI instead of a bug in production — which lets an MVP change direction safely.
Outcome
A working platform in production, built so the next team could keep extending it rather than rewrite it.