
An online platform to improve prospective medical students’ resumeses
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
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PHP 7
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Symfony 4
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MySQL
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React
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Docker
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AWS ECS
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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.

Precise calculations: IT Craft achieved high accuracy of calculations in the system.

Calculations covered by auto tests ensuring smooth work of the system.

Team and duration
1 year. Team included: 1 BA, 1 PM, 1 QA, 2 Web developers, 1 HTML/CSS developer.
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