Portfolio

Flock Too

An advertisement aggregator for local minor vendors, sellers, and other businesses from Ireland and the United Kingdom that provides an exclusive discount and many other features.

Tasks

To deliver a sophisticated ads aggregator for diverse businesses with hi-tech solutions;
To generate the users’ profiles automatically, automate contacts import;
To think out database migration strategy;
To optimize and comment code;
To set up online payments with Realex Payments.

Solutions

Were implemented JSON REST API for mobile application;
Doctrine2 have been replaced by Nano ORM, optimized for fast data pooling;
Created from scratch multi-threaded asynchronous data crawling product based on PhantomJS and Python Twisted;
Migrated from vanilla MySQL to PostgreSQL;
Third-party integration (Twitter, Facebook, google-geocoder, realex payment) API.

Achievements

CasperJS based ads aggregator;
Symfony was applied.
Automated generator of users' profiles;
Optimized SQL reading with NanoORM.
Google API based geocoder;
Sophisticated ads sorting.
Automated contacts import;
Automatically generated print page.

Technology

Symfony
CasperJS
PostgreSQL
NanoORM
Google API

symfony

PhantomJS

PostgreSQL

Google API