Led ongoing product development
Served as technical lead and ongoing maintainer, delivering the development, design, maintenance, infrastructure, and integration work requested by the business.
MenuBuilder
by eMeals
An internal web application for managing weekly menus, publishing recipes, and delivering meal content to eMeals subscribers.
Internal web application
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Technology
Ruby on Rails
Sidekiq
Amazon RDS for MySQL
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon S3
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudFront
AWS CloudFormation
Overview
One internal system for the menus behind the app.
MenuBuilder gives the eMeals meal team an internal interface for managing the menus published each week to subscribers.
The application produces structured JSON files, a standard data format, in Amazon S3 for the eMeals mobile apps. It also publishes recipes to Amazon CloudSearch, the app's search index, to support advanced search.
The work replaced a workflow that required the team to manage meal PDFs by hand and added a more direct path from menu editing to customer-facing content.
What was accomplished
Keep weekly meal content moving from the team to the app.
The work covered ongoing development, design, maintenance, infrastructure, and integration for the internal publishing system.
Built the menu publishing workflow
Created the internal workflow for adjusting existing meals, managing weekly menus, and publishing structured content for the eMeals mobile apps.
Improved meal content management
Made it easier for the meal team to repurpose meals, upload new photography, and maintain the content used by subscribers.
Automated nutrition data entry
Automated part of the nutritional information workflow so more detailed information could be provided to customers.
Connected the AWS publishing systems
Built and maintained the AWS infrastructure that stores mobile-app content, supports recipe search, and keeps the publishing pipeline operating.
BrandBuilder
A branded placement inside the meal-planning experience.
BrandBuilder supported consumer packaged goods (CPG) customers by giving them a branded placement inside the eMeals app, alongside the meal-planning experience.
Supported consumer packaged goods customers
Added a way for consumer packaged goods customers to participate in the eMeals app experience.
Created a branded in-app placement
Connected BrandBuilder to the product as a focused, branded location where customers encounter relevant content in the virtual grocery store.
Capabilities now in place
A content system that connects internal work to the customer app.
Weekly menu management
Give the meal team a focused internal UI for preparing and adjusting the menus sent to subscribers.
Mobile-app content delivery
Publish structured JSON content to S3 for use by the eMeals mobile apps.
Recipe search
Publish recipes to CloudSearch, the app's search index, to support advanced search.
Meal content operations
Support photography, nutrition information, and the ongoing maintenance work behind the content pipeline.
Next step
Talk through the product, problem, or next release.
A complete project brief is not required. Describe what you are building, what is not working, or which decision is holding the work up.