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Founder experience: UNSW application modernisation, delivered ahead of schedule.

Tawanda Nyakudjga, SoftDeck's founder, worked on the rebuild of a legacy university application for UNSW. This was not a SoftDeck engagement. The application was rebuilt with a Symfony REST API and a React single-page application, improving testing and independent service releases, and delivered ahead of schedule with an estimated $300,000 in project savings.

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01 / The brief

What UNSW needed, and what was built.

The need

A legacy university application needed a safer, more maintainable path forward.

What was built

The application was rebuilt with a Symfony REST API and React single-page application, improving testing and independent service releases.

  • A Symfony REST API

    An API lets one piece of software ask another for data. REST is a common, standard style of API.

  • A React single-page application

    A web app that updates the page as people use it.

  • Improved testing
  • Independent service releases

    Each service can be released on its own.

Stack

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Symfony
  • OAuth/OIDC
  • Azure AD

OAuth and OIDC are open standards for secure sign-in. Azure AD is Microsoft's identity service.

02 / Result

Delivered ahead of schedule with $300,000 in estimated project savings.

$300k

estimated project savings

Tawanda Nyakudjga, founder of SoftDeck
03 / The founder

Experience from SoftDeck's founder.

Tawanda Nyakudjga founded SoftDeck and provides senior technical leadership, with 9+ years of commercial engineering experience.

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04 / Services

Services this experience applies to.

Each link opens the service page, with what this project shows for it.

Legacy modernisationA legacy application rebuilt and delivered ahead of schedule.Software consultancyDelivery experience behind the advice.Business integrationsThe rebuild used OAuth and Azure AD.
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