Smart Placement

Project Initiative

The School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington UTA aims to streamline the student placement process for accumulating extra-curricular, volunteer, and internship credits essential for graduation. In response to this need, a self-hosted web application, Smart Placement has been developed. This application facilitates the placement of students into agencies, ensuring a seamless process that allows users, including administrators, students, web advisors, and agencies, to efficiently complete tasks with minimal clicks. The ultimate goal is to provide a user-friendly platform that enables individuals to easily fulfill degree requirements while contributing to their academic and professional development. Once the project is completed, ownership and management of 'Smart Placement' will be transferred to the College of Social Work at UTA, as they are the sponsoring entity.

Smart Placement serves as a comprehensive solution tailored to the specific requirements of the College of Social Work, offering a centralized platform to manage student placements and associated credits. By providing a user-centric experience, the web application aims to enhance the efficiency of administrative tasks related to student placement. Following project completion, the College of Social Work will have the autonomy to utilize and administer Smart Placement according to their unique needs and preferences. This initiative underscores a collaborative effort to support students in their academic journey and highlights the commitment of the College of Social Work to foster a conducive environment for student success and engagement.

My contribution:

This is a multi-year project and I've contributed to the project for 1 year as a part of my senior design development coursework for BSC in Computer Science and Engineering at UTA. I've worked as a full stack developer and my contributions are as follows:

• Setup zure cloud services for hosting the application
• Provisioned Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline
• Implemented Authentication and Authorization using Okta
• Frontend product development using ReactJS
• Provided backend development support using NodeJS
• Implemented unit testing using Cypress
• weekly scrum meetings, sprint planning and sprint retrospective