Portfolio Garden Compass

Responsible for

• Web Design

• PYTHON/ REACT / CSS / HTML5

project summary

Role: Full-Stack Developer

Project Type: eCommerce Platform / Content Management System

Project Overview

“Not sure what’s growing in your garden?” — Garden Compass solves this by allowing users to simply take a photo of a plant and receive instant identification. With a rapidly expanding catalogue of images and products, the platform required a modern, scalable website to support both its content and commercial growth.

The project focused on delivering a clean, professional, and fully responsive user experience, combined with powerful eCommerce functionality to support a growing customer base and product range.

Key Features & Contributions

• Responsive Frontend Development: Built a fully responsive interface ensuring seamless usability across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
• Robust eCommerce Integration: Developed a scalable online store with streamlined product browsing, cart functionality, and secure checkout workflows.
• Custom CMS Implementation: Integrated a flexible content management system, enabling administrators to add, edit, and manage products and content in real time.
• Dynamic Product Management: Engineered backend systems to support rapid product uploads, categorisation, pricing updates, and inventory handling.
• Image Handling & Optimisation: Designed efficient image processing pipelines to manage large volumes of plant photos while maintaining fast load times.
• API & Data Architecture: Built structured data models and backend logic to support plant identification workflows, product data, and user interactions.
• Performance & Scalability: Optimised database queries, caching strategies, and asset delivery to ensure the platform performs under increasing traffic and content load.
• User Experience Enhancements: Delivered an intuitive browsing and shopping journey, improving engagement and conversion rates.