Product overview

Pickaden is a Paris-based startup offering a SaaS platform for real-time management and booking of childcare services.

For professionals
- Manage and optimize duty schedules
- Receive, accept or decline care requests from parents based on real-time availability
- Publish and maintain an online profile

For parents
- Search engine to find available childcare institutions near a given address
- Submit online care requests
- Create and manage a personal dashboard and profile

Key Achievements

- Developed all new features end-to-end (front end & back end).
- Debugged and stabilized the initial MVP.
- Significantly improved responsiveness across much of the site.
- Redesigned the core search bar for better UX/UI: added filters, improved design, and enabled automatic search on filter validation.
- Installed several JavaScript plugins: logo carousel on the homepage, and keyword search on the help page (including creating the page from scratch).
- Built the entire parent area, including request submission workflows.
- Set up the management area for institutions.
- Implemented email sending functionality.
- Enhanced the admin interface with multiple new features.
- Wrote Capybara system tests.
- Optimized loading times, especially for images.
- Prepared the technical migration from Woonies to Pickaden.
- Wrote SQL queries on the KPI analytics platform.

Results:Delivered a functional, stable and user-friendly SaaS MVP, improving performance and UX while implementing all core features from scratch.

A small application built with React.js.
Displays a list of apartments with a Google Map. When a user clicks on an apartment, a red marker appears on the map.

A small application built with React.js.
GIF generator using the Giphy API. The user types a query in the search field, and the corresponding Giphy GIFs appear in the list on the right. When the user clicks on a GIF, it appears on the left side below the search field.

A Rails application for publishing classified ads.

As a user, I can:
- Sign up or log in,
- Go to the homepage,
- View the list of published advertisements,
- Access an advertisement’s page with all its details.

As an admin, I can:
- Sign up or log in,
- Go to the homepage,
- View the list of advertisements (published and unpublished),
- Publish an advertisement to make it visible to all users,
- Access an advertisement’s page with all its details.

Development of the Rails application "Cine-Talks" in progress — a platform connecting "speakers" with cinemas and distributors to facilitate the creation of events around a film, such as debates, discussions with actors, authors, cross-disciplinary stakeholders, associations, etc.

Assist the teacher during the morning class. Provide help, support, and correction for students with their morning and afternoon exercises, and clarify the lesson as needed. Skills covered: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, CSS Grid, Component Design, UI/UX.

Mentoring at the Rails Girls event in Saint-Étienne. Coached participants on setting up their development environment and creating a small Rails application using scaffold..

Development in Vue.js of a feature (not deployed) on an existing web application over two days: marcelle.mobi.
Feature: On the map, added a filter for nearby “film locations.”

As a user, I can:
Display nearby “film locations”,
- Click on a customized marker to display a link to the film,
- Click on the link to view information about the film,
- Click on the "see on the map" button, which directly opens the Google Maps page for the filming location.

Teamwork with 5 developers from different schools, levels, and tech stacks:
- 2 students in Java (Wild code school)
- 2 prospective students (Le Wagon Marseille)
- Myself, a Le Wagon Marseille alumni (Ruby / Rails / JS.

Rails Application - Trip Planner: Plan a trip with activities selected based on preferences and optionally hidden according to the "percentage of mystery" chosen by the user.

As a user I can:
- Sign up or log in,
- Create a new trip,
- Set my preferences for activity types,
- Select activities from a categorized list,
- Personalize my trips with "party time" options,
- Choose the level of mystery,
- View my trip, stay by stay, - View the list of activities for each stay,
- Update my trips,
- View my list of trips.

This project was initially developed by a team of 5, with a graphic overhaul completed by me.

Rails Application for Booking Sporting, Cultural, and Other Activities.

As a user, I can:

- Sign up or log in,
- Go to the homepage,
- View the list of activities or search for activities by type or location,
- Access an activity’s page with all its details,
- Book activities directly from the activity's page,
- View my list of bookings (filtered by activity type if desired) and track their status,
- Contact the activity owner through in-app messaging.

As a seller,  I can:

- Access all the features available to users,
- Create a new activity (access the seller session by clicking on the menu avatar),
- View my list of activities or search by type or location,
- Delete my activities,
- View the list of bookings for my activities (filtered by type if desired) and track their status,
- Change the status of my bookings with "accept" and "decline" options,
- Contact buyers through in-app messaging.

This basic project was initially developed by a team of 5, and then I took over for a complete redesign of the site and added new functionalities.

"Mister Cocktails" is a Rails application based on C.R.U.D functionality.

Create or browse cocktail recipes:

As a user, I can:

- Access the list of all cocktail recipes,
- Add, delete, and update a cocktail recipe,
- Select ingredients from a list,
- Add or delete doses for ingredients,
- Add reviews but am not allowed to delete them.