Working in the Northcoders internal development department is similar to many other dev teams who engage in agile development practices and included: Regular stand-ups with kanban, a ticket and git based development management cycle and participation in other SCRUM ceremonies such as planning and retros.
Working within the atomic design paradigm, the Northcoders React Component Library is a large library of components created within Storybook using Tailwind and tested using React Testing Library. I was responsible for creating a number of the animations as well as several buttons, form inputs and other form related components.
The Learner Management System was the biggest and boldest internal development project I was part of at Northcoders. It aims to manage the complete student journey from first interest through to graduation and beyond. Using Prisma and tRPC, I updated the table structure through Prisma migrations, all rigorously tested.
Northcoders' flagship customer facing software application, the Learn 2 Code platform. Designed from the floor up to be a landing spot for students to learn about coding and test their knowledge. I was involved in designing and writing the test suite behind many of the student interactive challenges.
A single command in Slack will hook into Northcoders' Learner Management System and procedurally generate graduation certificates, with social links and email to all valid graduates. I was involved with this project during it's genesis and spiked out much of the tech which eventually made it into the stack.
A key part of the Northcoders course is collaborative work. This means the students and tutors engage in paired programming the majority of the time. A pairing generator was my firs development project at Northcoders. I saw the project from spiking through to the release of the first and second versions.
