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With over a million registered users and over 1.8 million site sessions a month, these sites need to be able to handle high traffic loads and huge amounts of data. Users can browse active real estate listings from four different boards across Canada, along with millions of historical listings. Market stats and trends over time help users be informed to make smart decisions. Other features include listing alerts via email and push notifications, area information and demographics, mortgage calculator, compare listings tool, and more.

Built as independent codebases; a React frontend with server-side rendering to ensure search engine discoverability, and a combination API monolith & microservice backend (shared with Condos.ca CRM). All three sites run on the same codebase and use theming, feature flags, and environment variables to customize. Heavy caching and use of asynchronous jobs helps ensure optimal performance.

Having a single place which aggregates leads and associated data from Property.ca, Condos.ca, and MrLoft.ca, allows Property.ca real estate agents to effectively and effieciently manage their leads and clients. Custom built tools help with engagement and conversions; digital phone numbers, automated campaigns (phone calls, emails, and text messages), real-time lead opportunity notifications, task scheduling, email and text templates, and more. Integrations with other company departments for things like deal submissions and new listing uploads have streamlined and automated many internal processes.

Built as independent codebases; a React frontend, and a combination API monolith & microservice backend (shared with Property.ca et al). Due to the use of personal information, security is a top priority.

A novel approach to real estate appraisels; using a weighted average of opinions and targeting local real estate agents with monetary rewards, the app attempted to provide a higher accuracy at a fraction of the cost of a traditional appraisal.

A hybrid app was built to allow the same core codebase for both iOS and Android. This required some native app-like features to be recreated manually, but still ultimately saved time and cost compared to building two completely different apps.

An ad campaign for the famous Superbowl ads (yes ads for ads), this featured an online multiplayer toss and catch game. Pair your phone with a computer and challenge your friends by throwing and catching the ball in real-time. You can also view your favourite ads in two different gallery styles and vote for your favourites.

I worked with some talented people over at Jam3. As Google was the client, we were required to use Google Cloud for all our infrastructure needs.

An ad campaign for Maynards. Upon loading the site, you are presented with a wall of Swedish Fish, which talk and animate when clicked. Each fish says an unique and humorous line and can also be shared on social media.

We used hardware accelerated PNG image sequences to create the fish talking animations, while playing the associated voice recordings through the browser. This project required a tool to sync the image sequences with the audio files, so I modified an open-source lip-syncing animation tool to export animations to a compatible data format (JSON) and integrated the fish image assets.

An online beauty product store, with a focus on natural and organic products for babies and mothers. An ingredient directory allows customers to learn details about all sorts of different natural substances that are used in many of the products offered on the site.

A CMS allows for content updates without code changes. Financial transactions are offloaded to a third-party payment processor to simplify implementation and reduce security risks.