Make the workflow visible.
Organize the system around the actions people actually take, not around a database diagram.
Web Product2023Professional Profiles
ProfileNest — Professional Profile Builder
A full-profile web product for building, managing and sharing professional portfolios with projects, skills, experience, education and files.
01 / CONTEXT
Behind every screen is a job someone is trying to finish.
ProfileNest is an ASP.NET Core MVC profile-building platform with authenticated editing and public portfolio views. Users can manage professional experience, qualifications, awards, languages, skills and projects, upload project files and images, and present the resulting profile through a shareable public page. The system uses ASP.NET Core Identity, Entity Framework Core and SQL Server, with validation, soft-delete behavior and project-file handling designed for real multi-section profile workflows.
DISCIPLINEWeb Product
INDUSTRYProfessional Profiles
STACKASP.NET Core MVC, .NET 9, C#, EF Core, Identity, SQL Server, JavaScript
YEAR2023
02 WHAT THE BUILD NEEDED
Protect the boring parts.
Validation, permissions, state and recovery are what keep useful software useful.
Leave room to change.
The first release should solve today without trapping the business tomorrow.
03 SYSTEM ANATOMY
Useful software is a stack of
decisions.
Interface, rules, data and operations have to agree with each other. A clean screen cannot compensate for a broken state model.
INTERFACEWORKFLOWRULESDATAHANDOVER
04 / HANDOVERThe build should remain
The build should remain
understandable.
Deployment, operating assumptions and important technical decisions should not live only in the head of the person who wrote the code.