Platform, 2017, Delivered
Horton Group Platform
A reusable client platform built to be re-skinned, plus a remediation that pulled a bloated site back to maintainable. Architecting for reuse and rescue.
The brief
Two jobs, one theme. The first was a templated application built with Horton's senior developer on Angular and KeystoneJS, designed so the team could re-skin it for future clients instead of rebuilding from scratch each time. The second was a remediation: taking a bloated WordPress site (Sisters on the Fly) back to a state someone could actually maintain.
The work
On the platform, the interesting decisions were about the seams: what to make configurable, what to keep fixed, and how to keep a single codebase serving many client skins without forking. On the remediation, it was triage and discipline, cutting accumulated weight without breaking what the site needed to keep doing.
Why it belongs here
Designing for reuse and rescuing a system that has drifted are both senior signals. Most of the value was in the architecture, not the surface, which is why this is described rather than shown.