I was the founding engineer for an independent arts and culture magazine that entered New York City's literary scene as a publication that calls out the industry for its low pay and unsustainable workloads, while also working to change how publishing works within that same industry. Jupiter centers the Black diasporic experience with authors ranging from NYT best selling authors and staff writers to NYC gallery curators.

Jupiter Magazine is built using NextJS, React, and Typescript on the frontend. The entire website is responsive, robust, and performant, thanks to relying on dynamic rendering of elements and lazy loading with SVGs when applicable.On the backend, Jupiter Magazine relies on a simple postgreSQL database to collect email addresses from the thousands of readers that have frequented jupiter-mag.com. Beyond that, it relies on a simple endpoint to pull data on the planet Jupiter’s current characteristics, including current location, eccentricity, and more.

As the founding engineer for this project, I’ve created the entire system design and implementation for this magazine.I set up all tickets, their subtasks, and relevant scopes for said subtasks. I’ve organized the repository in a pattern that mimics current industry standards for React projects so that new developers can easily acclimate to the codebase. I additionally have written documentation and comments through out the repository to mark when, where, and how future developers can begin to contribute.