WORK

Fika

Brief

Fika is a platform designed to connect creatives in the same city for coffee meetups. It offers users the convenience of exploring the work of fellow creatives and planning in-person coffee sessions, eliminating the challenges of coordinating through platforms like LinkedIn or the apprehension of DM’ing on Instagram.

Team

I had the privilege of joining the Fika team shortly before its official launch. The Fika team is a group of three great designers and business minds who are self taught software engineers. My primary role was to ensure the platform’s readiness for a smooth release. After the launch, I have continued my collaboration with the team, contributing to the development of new features.

Work:

  • CI/CD Processes: I developed Fika’s CI/CD, establishing a deployment pipeline for efficient integration and consistent delivery of updates. The new pipeline helps us test our code in a production environment and reliably deploy our code.

  • Production Readiness: I integrated consistent logging and metrics throughout the application. This provided the team with real-time insights into the platform’s performance, enabling us to proactively identify and address potential bottlenecks or issues. I also implemented comprehensive error handling to ensure a smooth user experience.

  • Onboarding Flow: I built out Fika’s initial onboarding process, designing it to be adaptable with extensible visuals, text, and layout. We are now able to constantly tweak onboarding flow on the fly to see how we can help users have the best profiles possible without causing dropoff.

  • Testing Suite: I pushed the team to begin building out a testing suite. It will be a gradual process of adding tests and the team makes code changes.

  • Work Samples: I’m working on improving how users upload their creative samples. I am desiging a plan that restructures Fika’s database to remove the initial constraint of two samples per user, offering greater flexibility in the upload process.

My time at Fika was focused on technical optimization and enhancing user experience. Through collaboration and a data-driven approach, I was able to contribute significantly to the platform’s readiness for launch. After launch, I’ve stayed on to help the team deliver fast follows and think through new features.

Toolset:

  • FE: Javascript, React, Tailwind
  • BE: Nodejs, Javascript, Express, Sequelize, Postgres, Redis
  • other: Sentry, Heroku
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