AtTalentFit

The product

AtTalentFit is a recruitment platform used by enterprise HR teams to run hiring end to end: requisitions, candidate pipelines, and the reporting layer that sits on top of both. It went live partway through the build and is still live today.

My contribution

I worked as a backend and platform developer on the team that built and maintained it. My work was on the parts users never see and always notice when they break: the APIs the front end depends on, the data flows behind candidate and requisition state, and the reliability work that keeps the system usable when fifty people are moving through a pipeline at once.

This was team delivery: I owned services inside a larger product, and other people owned the rest. What stays with you from that arrangement is what it demands. Other developers build against your interfaces, so you cannot change one on a whim. Work gets read by someone else before it merges. And when something breaks, sorting out whose half it is matters a great deal more than being right about it.

Why it is on this site

It is where the instincts come from. Production software teaches things side projects cannot. Real users find the edge case you did not consider. Real data volumes break the query that was fine in development. Real enterprise clients arrive with compliance requirements after the architecture has settled. Working inside those constraints is where much of my instinct for what to build carefully and what to build quickly comes from.

And it is checkable. It is a live product at a real address, used by people I have never met. That is a different kind of evidence from a demo I can spin up and take down at will, and it is the reason a project I contributed to sits alongside the ones I built myself.

• 01Backend services and HTTP APIs
• 02Relational data modelling
• 03Production monitoring and incident response