This week was an incredibly productive week for me because the primary blockers, such as the development environment and library issues have been tackled in the preceding weeks, leaving me free to implement the meat of the back-end swiftly. I delivered multiple API endpoints and worked closely with Alex and Samuel to integrate the API with their front-end and CV system respectively, producing a cohesive product very rapidly.
One thing I also achieved this week is that I actually refactored the database schema in order to better work with Samuel’s idea of sending a list of items the CV system has predicted, in descending order of probability, and presenting it to the user. The previous schema did consider such a use case but was not well designed for it, and did not store the CV’s predictions in the database at all. By swiftly refactoring (which was made much easier by the Prisma ORM and TypeScript!) I managed to deliver the results we wanted for demo week and beyond.
Going by my personal Gantt Chart, we are now exactly 1 day ahead of schedule. It’s a fantastic sign, and I believe that with this pace, we can work even faster. In the following weeks, I have identified several improvements my API could perform, such as coalescing multiple transactions within a single day, as well as fixing some security vulnerabilities.