Brian Neeland

I was tasked with building a full-featured eCommerce web application for LuxAlgo, a leading financial analysis tools company.

I built a full subscription checkout using Stripe Elements and Billing in a Next.js app and secured it with Auth0. I also implemented an account connection feature, allowing users to authorize OAuth connections with external services at the press of a button.

From there, I expanded the app's features extensively. I built a user account dashboard to manage their data in Stripe, Auth0, and other custom settings. I set up a library with hundreds of free and premium products available for download or through connection to an external service via API, complete with infinite scroll pagination, full text search, tagging, filtering, and sorting features. I also set up several custom behaviors using the Stripe API, including custom subscription upgrading, extending, and downgrading behaviors, as well as a sophisticated retention, pausing, and cancellation feature, both of which leveraged Stripe's subscription schedule API.

I joined the Marovi developer team at a relatively early point in their app's development and had a chance to implement several important building blocks.

I set up OAuth-based authentication to protect pages and backend API routes. Later, I expanded to include several custom behaviors, such as whitelisted emails, user access expiry, superuser permissions for management, and user groups with custom roles and permissions.

I also built out many of the app's core features, enabling users to find high-value candidates. I implemented filtering candidates based on location using the Google Places API and MongoDB geospatial queries, and detailed assessments based on a set of candidates specified by the user. I built an interactive dashboard showing detailed compensation data specific to the user's candidate search parameters with Salary.com API data. I also developed custom logic behind the scenes, ensuring stale data is refreshed from a number of external APIs.

I built the first version of a full web application platform from scratch for Coverdash, a new insurance brokerage startup. The web app included a user dashboard with the ability to buy and manage financial products, manage ongoing financial claims, manage accounts, and contact the support team.

The web app was built using Next.js (React framework) with a back-end API and a full-featured front-end, including several React-based UI components using TailwindCSS and HeadlessUI. A PostgreSQL database with Prisma was used for object-relational mapping, and Auth0 was used for authentication and authorization (with custom Auth0 actions for a customized signup process).

The system also included a complex component package built with React and deployed to npm, allowing partners to integrate the product into their own platforms. The package included Google Maps APIs to autocomplete an address form field and display the selected address in an embedded, dynamic Google Map.

I served as a full-stack developer on a small team that built and maintained a new decentralized cryptocurrency exchange.

I built a full-featured trading platform interface, complete with market, limit, and take-profit/stop-loss orders, real-time market and trading data, and charts, as well as several user dashboard pages showing detailed order and trade history, profit and loss history, and more.

As Palmswap ran popular trading competitions with thousands of participants, I built detailed leaderboards tracking competitors' performances and rewards.

I built crypto token farming, staking features, referral program infrastructure, and features to track and claim referral earnings and discounts. I also built a detailed administrative dashboard to track business and infrastructure data and metrics.

We used a Vue3 front end, interfacing with smart contracts deployed on the Binance Smart Chain using Ethers, and a GraphQL subgraph deployed on The Graph. We also used several AWS services, including S3, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and Route 53, managed via a combination of the AWS console, AWS SDK, Serverless Framework, and Pulumi. I participated in creating a custom Vue3 component library using Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI.

A simple yet powerful billing web app designed for freelancers and small businesses. The app enables users to track their time, create invoices, and automatically remind clients to pay their invoices.

I was the sole developer, building the first complete version in about one week. The app is built with Next.js, features magic link authentication (utilizing Auth.js/NextAuth.js), and utilizes mostly native UI components, supplemented with Radix UI as needed. I used a PostgreSQL database with Prisma deployed on Supabase.

I was hired to build a complete task management and productivity web application for Optimaxx. The app allows productivity-minded users to make a weekly routine in an interactive calendar, create and manage tasks within clear time blocks, and more.

Meal Hippo was a marketplace for caterers to provide meals to individuals and families. I acted as the sole developer, initially building the MVP, developing many new features, and maintaining the complete application for over a year. I also worked as a partner in the business, finding several new vendors and customers, onboarding them, and providing support.

I built Meal Hippo using the Django web framework (Python), with Stripe for processing payments and managing customers.

An easy-to-use web app for setting up gift exchanges. Users are randomly assigned and sent an email with their secret giftee.

I acted as the sole developer, building and maintaining the app. The app features a custom random assignment algorithm and optional rules for who must and must not be assigned to whom, and it continuously verifies that there are no conflicts in the user inputs. The app then sends an email to each member informing them of their giftee, without leaking the matches to the user. Finally, users can export their configuration using a link containing their compressed data. When users access that link later on, the app automatically loads their complete data.

Built using Next.js, Postmark for email, zlib for data compression, and Tailwind CSS.

Borealhead is a daily personal journal web application. It focuses on providing a very simple interface, optimized for speed and reliability. All user journal content is encrypted.

I built Borealhead using Next.js 13 and server components. I used a PostgreSQL database with Prisma, NextAuth.js for authentication/authorization, CryptoJS for user content encryption, and Tailwind CSS.