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Consumer was the first large scale web application that I had the pleasure to contribute towards. It is a Ruby on Rails application in the backend mixed with traditional erb templates and React components in the frontend.

The majority of my work on this site was focused towards dev-ops. This included:

• Server provisioning and maintenance

• Migrating server hosting

• Creating a docker environment for development work

• Automated CI with CircleCI

A highlight for me would have to be the server migration that was undertaken late 2020 to early 2021. This work involved moving the application from a single worker environment to a multiple worker environment. During this time I automated as much of the server setup and deployment as I possibly could, to not only make it easier for myself but easier for future developers as well.