Project Details

Socialvest

Developed the application architecture for the Socialvest shopping platform and lead the development team from launch to acquisition

case study
  • Responsible for leading development and designing technical architecture of the LAMP stack based shopping platform, which attracted 80K+ members, over $1M in shopping revenue and $1.7M in VC backed funding.
  • Managed all platform development activities as well as developed custom backend administrator components
  • Lead an outsourcing team of 4 developers across 3 different geographic locations throughout the design and implementation.
  • Designed system architecture and developed Socialvest’s recommendation engine.
  • Designed and developed REST web services API, which provided an interface for iPhone/iPad apps, integration with partner platforms, and browser extensions/add-ons.
  • Lead the integration of social networking components into the platform, which included custom development to provide additional features such as Twitter API integration, Facebook API integration, etc.
  • Conceptualized architecture and developed software for affiliate shopping tracking. This included integrating with Commission Junction, PepperJam, Amazon, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network and Popshops API.