Boston Society of Architects is one of the most renowned landing spots for architects in the United States. The website is a hub for job postings, events, and resources for architects. I was brought in to lead build out their jobs platform that could handle both paying for premium job postings and free job postings.

Tech Stack

It had been almost a decade since I'd touched PHP in any meaningful way. So when I was thrown into a project built on CraftCMS, I was a bit nervous. Not only had I never heard of CraftCMS, but I had never worked with Twig either.

I needed to build a system that allowed for both free and paid job postings, an admin panel for managing job postings, and a front-end for users to view and apply to job postings. This required creating a custom CraftCMS plugin that interfaced with Stripe for payments and a custom front-end for the job postings.

Before I knew it, I had authored a custom plugin and had made multiple contributions to the CraftCMS open source project. Despite PHP being a language I wasn't familiar with and CraftCMS being a framework I knew little about, I was able to make meaningful open source contributions and ship this project on time.