An online platform to improve prospective medical students’ resumeses

LAMP
AWS
Docker
CI/CD

Company: Jak Stat
Country: USA
Category: Startups, Education
Release year – 2019

Project background

By students, for students—as stated by the founders of JAK STAT. Their goal is to help pre-medical students be better informed about their competition, and to help them take steps towards improving their resume.

Every year, more than 53,000 students apply to medical schools with only one-third of them getting accepted. With the increasingly competitive environment, applicants are constantly on the search for opportunities to maximize their chance of success. With JAK STAT, they are able to track their progress and select resources that would increase their competitiveness.

Cooperation with IT Craft kicked off with the business analyst and team of UX/UI designers gathering requirements needed to prepare wireframes for the future system. Once everything was approved, the designers implemented the graphical representation of the project, and development started using Agile methodology.

Features

Main User/Student features:

Create / edit / delete applicant profile
Search for schools, current opportunities, and other applicants
Follow / unfollow organizations and applicants
Add / remove school to / from the list of schools of interest
Set application status (attending, primary application, secondary application, interview, waitlisted, accepted, rejected)
Open / participate in a forum thread
Contact relevant school administrator to report about incorrect school details

Main Administrator features:

Manage user records (delete, block, resend confirmation email, see user profile)
Create / edit / delete / publish blog posts
Create applicant profile for testing purposes
Access data from previous application cycle

Technologies

PHP 7
Symfony 4
MySQL
React
Docker
AWS ECS
GitLab

Engineering Challenges and Wins

CI/CD for AWS ECS: IT Craft team established an automated process of update deliveries to the production environment. This includes automatic test execution plus automated build and deployment of updates.