Ben Thompson

Together with a team of students at UCL, I built an order management platform for Sapphic Bison, a non-profit organisation providing blood tests for trans people across the UK.

The platform was designed to provide easy order tracking and management alongside data analytics, internal notifications, and integration with email and lab APIs.

For the frontend, I used Next.js and Material UI to create a full operational dashboard that allows staff members to view and change order details, manage profiles and permissions, generate PDF test results, and visualise order trends.

On the backend, I used a PostgreSQL database with Prisma for ORM. Secure authentication and authorisation was implemented using Auth.js.

At the end of every year, I like to put together a list of my favourite albums.

So I had the idea to put this online, as a visual record of all the albums I’d enjoyed over the years. I also wanted it to be possible to filter the albums by year, genre, and if they had been selected as the ‘winner’ of that year.

It seemed like an ideal opportunity to use React, as I could then dynamically generate the list of albums depending on the filters selected by the user. On the backend, I used an Express router with NodeJS, and connected the site to a MongoDB database stored on MongoDB Atlas.

I still have plans to develop the site further, as I think there’s lots of potential extra functionality that could be added!

My first website, made to advertise my business as a tutor of English and Maths.

This was one of the inspirations in teaching myself to code, as I knew a personal website would be beneficial. I decided to make it from scratch with HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and learnt a lot along the way!

Fully responsive for mobile layouts and optimized for SEO.