(Bluxome Labs : 3/16-6/16)
A remnant of the legacy codebase from the company’s origins eight years ago, the two most important routes on the platform for quality assurance had never been moved from the company’s original Merb app to its companion (upgraded) Rails experience (back when a first movement towards SOA happened three years prior.)
They were rightly regarded with trepidation given their dependence on MooTools when the rest of the platform had been moved to jQuery, especially as the Jasmine suite for their coverage had been mothballed about 18 months before and those same MooTools libs were tightly-coupled between two platform applications.
Towards a future of less frontend tech debt, I seized on the opportunity to champion and shepherd the project (as a Q2 engineering goal) through to completion.
Over the course of three months, I led the effort around project scoping, weekly communication around engineering effort, and architecting and leading the implementation, interfacing with Product and Design to ensure quality in light of the absent test coverage.
Results
- Delivered on decoupling strategy for static asset management / Webpack’d bundles while collabratively iterating with VPE/VP PROD and Sr. Engineers