Full-Stack Developer

Jul 2022 was a turning point for the platform. Libsyn had committed to a full rebuild. The plan was to move off a legacy PHP/Zend stack and into a modern TypeScript monorepo. I stepped into a more senior contributor role, working across the frontend rebuild and taking on a standalone backend microservice.

Shipped Work

Quota Microservice

As part of the platform modernization, storage and bandwidth quota enforcement needed to move out of the monolith and into its own service. I designed and built the quota microservice in TypeScript, using Kafka as the messaging backbone.

Platform Rebuild — Remix + TypeScript

The existing platform was a multi-year accumulation of PHP views, jQuery, and React islands bolted onto a Zend Framework backend. The decision was made to rewrite it top-to-bottom in Remix and TypeScript.

I contributed frontend development across several core platform areas during the rebuild. I built out the route modules, layout files, data loaders, and form actions using Remix’s file-based routing model. The shift to Remix’s server/client model required rethinking how we’d previously handled data fetching and mutations, and TypeScript added a layer of confidence across a codebase that had historically been loosely typed. Unfortunately, this version of the platform was eventually abandoned.

Skills in Context

Remix — first time using Remix in production; the server/client model and file-based routing were a significant shift from the SPA patterns I’d worked with before.

Kafka — used for async event consumption in the quota service. Learned producer/consumer patterns and partition management in a real production context.

TypeScript — first role where TypeScript was the default across both frontend and backend. The discipline of typing API responses and domain models was a step change from the JavaScript-first approach in previous roles.

Vitest — replaced Jest for unit testing in the TypeScript stack; faster and better integrated with Vite.