Saving the World, One Building at a Time.
A Real Estate Adventure: Saving the World, One Building at a Time
As a freelance developer, I have had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, but my recent collaboration with Predium stands out as a particularly impactful and technically rewarding experience. The mission of this project is to build a platform that empowers real estate companies to minimize their environmental footprint and save costs, all while contributing to a more sustainable world.
Our approach began with a strong focus on the frontend, utilizing React 18 and Material UI to create a sleek, efficient, and user-friendly interface. These technologies, which I have worked with extensively, allowed us to deliver a modern and responsive user experience. The real technical adventure, however, started when we integrated Hasura, Prisma, and PostgreSQL as the backbone of our GraphQL API for the frontend. Hasura, with its robust CLI and real-time capabilities, proved to be an invaluable tool, significantly accelerating our development process. Prisma complemented this by providing powerful migration tools and seamless SQL handling, while also generating reliable TypeScript types that improved our code quality and maintainability.
Delving deeper into the backend, we adopted Nest.js as our service framework. This decision was driven by Nest.js's architectural elegance and modularity, which offered a refreshing alternative to more conventional JavaScript web servers like Express. The structure and scalability provided by Nest.js have been instrumental in supporting our growing platform.
Our infrastructure is powered by AWS, a platform that continues to impress with its reliability and breadth of services. Leveraging AWS has enabled us to further expand our skill sets and ensure that our operations are both scalable and secure.
Working within a small, agile startup team has been a highlight of this project. The team's project-oriented mindset and commitment to sustainability have fostered a collaborative environment where technical excellence and real-world impact go hand in hand. Together, we are making tangible progress toward a greener future, one building at a time.
Christoph Griehl is a freelance software engineer specializing in fullstack development, cloud-native architectures, and domain-driven solutions for Web3 and ESG-Real-estate. With a proven track record of increasing engineering efficiency and delivering scalable, maintainable software, Christoph partners with clients to optimize processes, reduce costs, and achieve strategic goals. His approach combines technical excellence, agile collaboration, and a relentless focus on business value.