An online historic site directory that allowed users to find historic sites and book tours, hotels and flights to visit them.
This work was done as part of my employment at Scout Digital
2019
Responsibilities
Assisting in translating initial requirements into technical specifications
Designing database schema
Choosing appropriate stack
Helping to select a viable host for application
Coding application to initial specification in areas such as users, tour and hotel API integrations, geocoding, historic sites, article and article collections
Functionality
Ability for end-users to search and view information on Historic Sites
Integration with Expedia API to allow hotel bookings from within the application
Integration with SkyScanner to allow users to find and select flights from within the application
Integration with Viator allowing users to browser, search and book Tours from within the application
Article and “Top 10” list style article generation based on tags and placeholder copy allowing SEO friendly content to be generated with ease
On-the-fly image resizing functionality using an Amazon Lambda function with Amazon API and Amazon S3
User account and registration system
Search flights, tours, hotels, historic sites and articles with unified location database