Black Lightning

Black Lightning is the Ruby on Rails application behind bedlamtheatre.co.uk. It hosts the public website, show archive, and internal administration system of the Edinburgh University Theatre Company. This app keeps proposals, shows, seasons, and members organised and manageable for the committee and show teams.

I took over maintenance of a codebase that had outlived several generations of student developers and carried it through major upgrades, from Rails 5 all the way to Rails 8, modernising the stack and Dockerising deployment along the way. It is where I learned most of my web development and product skills, because you learn most when writing code that is actually used by users who need it to do their jobs.