Joshua Finnis

Admin dashboard modernization: Led the conversion of a 15-year-old Backbone SPA on a Python/Flask backend that was often determined as too risky to modernize. Implemented a series of incremental prototypes to prove that we could do both old and new dual-served on one instance, cross-page integration via webpack/Apache, while making full reuse of existing SSO/auth. Each prototype would become the shipped v2, now a fully server-rendered SSR app. Customer-facing dashboard architecture: Architected our greenfield dashboard as a server-rendered React Router app (the team's first SSR), from design sprint through rollout. Set the patterns the whole team follows: auth for third-party iframe embeds, routing/repo structure for multiple embeds, and new standards for CSS and semantic HTML. Stack modernization: Moved the team TypeScript-first with Vite and biome.js, and overhauled frontend testing: modernizing unit tests to Vitest and introduced browser-level end-to-end tests with Cypress.