PROJECT ROLE — ADDITIONAL PROJECT EXPERIENCE
The challenge
Deploying a website typically requires several manual steps. A self-service platform needs to turn repository selection and template choices into a traceable deployment workflow while handling concurrent build requests and surfacing useful feedback to users.
My contribution
I built a hosting platform offering paid plans, template-based deployments and one-click builds. It ingested GitHub repositories, queued builds with Redis and BullMQ, ran Docker-based build workflows, exposed live build logs and configured Nginx routing for hosted websites.
Architecture & engineering decisions
- Repository ingestion: GitHub onboarding triggers the build workflow.
- Asynchronous builds: Redis/BullMQ separates incoming requests from background workers so deployment processing does not block user-facing requests.
- Build isolation: Docker provides repeatable build and runtime boundaries.
- Routing: Nginx connects a deployed site with inbound web traffic.
- User visibility: Live build logs make background progress understandable and support troubleshooting.
Reliability & trade-offs
Asynchronous deployments introduce job retries, failure handling, isolation and capacity decisions. The platform's architecture separates the user request from the build worker and exposes progress clearly. Internal deployment counts and uptime have not been included because those figures are not available in the provided project record.
Result & scope
Implemented an end-to-end self-service website hosting workflow using GitHub, container builds, background queues and reverse-proxy routing.