Case study · 2025
School Platform
Full-stack operations platform for 400+ students and staff at a technical school in Venezuela.
The school was running on spreadsheets and manual handoffs. Staff needed one place to manage access, see what was happening, and stop re-entering the same data in three tools.
Context
I was the sole engineer at Escuela Técnica Industrial Mariano Fernández Fortique in Cagua, Venezuela (Jan–Apr 2025). The school needed a single system for students and staff — not another spreadsheet chain.
What I shipped
- Authentication and roles — Students, teachers, and admins saw only what they were allowed to use.
- Operational dashboards — API-backed views so staff could track what mattered day to day.
- Deployment under constraints — Owned architecture, frontend, backend, and production setup on a fixed timeline and budget.
Constraints that shaped the work
- 400+ real users — Errors showed up immediately; reliability mattered more than feature count.
- Messy requirements — Priorities shifted; I scoped in slices and shipped what unblocked people first.
- No luxury stack — Practical choices over novelty; software people could use every week.
Outcome
Replaced manual workflows with centralized digital access. The platform became the default way staff and students reached school operations online.