Notification template management app - (2022 - present)

Full stack rails app built for the VA (Veteran Affairs). It allows internal VA business units to manage their own notification templates (email, SMS) and see their performance. Also includes admin facing features for managing the various business units and their respective users.

Tech details:

  • Full stack Rails 7 app
  • Hotwire
  • Vite.js
  • View Components
  • CI/CD pipeline built out with GitHub actions
  • Deployed to AWS ECS (utilizing ECR)

Screenshots:

Home Template list
portal home page template list
Email templates SMS templates
email show page sms show page
Dashboard Admin
dashboard page admin page

CI pipeline CI/CD pipeline

Notification sending rails engine - (2022 - present)

Managed a rails engine that handles notification sending logic in a monolithic rails app. Main app (including all 30+ rails engines) contains over 440K lines of ruby code and the notification sending module is currently used by 6+ teams.

Tech details:

  • API only Rails 7 app
  • Configurable callback logic for teams (from other modules) to receive delivery status updates for their notifications
  • Datadog and Sentry for performance and error monitoring
  • Extensive sidekiq usage

Appeals api rails engine - (2020 - 2021)

Managed a rails engine that handled API requests related to Veteran appeal claims from the va.gov front end.

Accomplishments

  • Developed and manged endpoints related to three separate sets of endpoints:
    • Higher-level Reviews
    • Board Appeal (Notice of Disagreement)
    • Supplemental claims
  • Migrated existing openApi spec to be generated by Rswag

Tech details:

  • API only Rails 7 app

HR/Appeals resource management app - (2018 - 2020)

Accomplishments

  • Took a prototype HR management app to a fully featured app ready for production use.
  • Customizable org chart utilizing Vue.js and d3.js.
  • Upgraded from Rails 4 to 5.
  • Migrated legacy Oracle DB (on-prem) to AWS Oracle RDS.

CUI (Clinician User Interface) app - (2017 - 2018)

Accomplishments

  • Implemented a custom RBAC (role based access control) system using the CanCanCan gem as the authorization layer.
  • Improved automated test coverage.
  • Implemented multiple features

Custom Rails CMS - (2014 - 2017)

Accomplishments

  • Reduced number of DB requests per page load by approx. 16%
  • Implemented a major feature that safely wrapped a 3rd party API (using a Rails engine).
  • Added a feature that allows user of our CMS to create themes with customizable colors.
  • Dealing directly with customers for development and support.