Problem

A car-auction operator had a marketing brief, legacy back-ends, and no modern web or mobile front-end. They wanted a site, an app, and a way for non-engineers to manage content.

What I did

  • Derived a site design from the marketing brief and translated it into a component library shared across web and mobile.
  • Trained a green team in modern web-development practice — code review, TypeScript discipline, component decomposition.
  • Designed a data model for a headless CRM (Contentful) and integrated it with the client’s legacy back-ends.
  • Built a dynamic React/Next.js front-end driven entirely by CRM data, so the editorial team could ship pages without engineer involvement.
  • Shared a core between React Native and the Next.js web client so features landed on both surfaces from the same source of truth.
  • Worked directly with the customer to develop and refine the specification through delivery.

Outcome

Shipped web and mobile clients backed by a headless CMS, with the content team able to manage listings without engineer involvement.

Stack

  • Languages. TypeScript
  • Frameworks. Next.js, React, React Native
  • Backend / data. Contentful, GCP
Specific Solutions LLC
Portland, OR