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GroupVitals
Software engineer on a small team · 2013–2018
A group-management SaaS for churches, with member signups, attendance tracking, and engagement reporting synced to Fellowship One. I spent five years on the small team that built it.
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GroupVitals is a group-management SaaS for churches: member signups, attendance tracking, and engagement reporting, synced with the church-management systems churches already use. I worked on it from 2013 to 2018 on a small team and helped lay the foundation for most of its codebase and architecture.
What I built
- Took over the Fellowship One API integrations, pulling and pushing data across all of their available APIs.
- Helped build Stripe subscriptions priced by the number of groups a church had.
- Built the data migration that moved customers' data over from GroupForms, the earlier CodeIgniter product.
- Built background queue workers on Beanstalkd and Supervisor for email and other jobs.
- Introduced continuous integration with Codeship, code reviews, and PHPUnit tests to cut down on production bugs.
- Refactored much of the code toward repositories, gateways, and factories with dependency injection, so it was easier to test.
- Set up error alerting, S3 backups, and a Homestead dev environment, and ran the servers on DigitalOcean with nginx.
When the team got smaller, I also took on user support.