01
Challenge
Scattered tools were costing the team hours every week. Projects, timesheets, billing, and onboarding lived in different systems. Ops needed one source of truth without losing flexibility.
All work
7Span2023 – Present
Case Study
Everest
The operating system for an engineering studio.
Internal · client-owned
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer · Directus architect
- Team
- 7Span · internal platform team
- Client
- 7Span
- Domain
- Internal CRM · Operations · Billing
Overview
7Span's internal CRM, billing, timesheets, and workflows across the company.
02
Approach
Architected a custom Directus extension bundle (REST, hooks, panels, cron) for billing, timesheets, and workflows. Integrated eight platforms: Keka, ClickUp, Discord, GitHub, Google Drive, Plivo, Vercel, and Calendly, with OAuth, webhooks, and automated provisioning. Built analytics dashboards, Puppeteer PDF rendering, a Discord bot, and cron jobs.
03
Outcome
Everest runs daily company operations, leadership dashboards, engineer standups, and HR tooling from one backend. Mentored junior engineers on the platform team.
What I built
The shipped surface.
05 features
- 01Project-centric data model with timesheets, milestones, invoices
- 02Daily standup Discord bot with per-project threads
- 03Puppeteer-powered resume PDF renderer for HR
- 04Cron jobs for automated reminders, escalations, and reports
- 05Leadership dashboards: revenue, utilisation, receivables, runway
Stack
Node.jsDirectusJavaScriptMySQLPuppeteerOAuth2
- Directus extension bundle: REST, hooks, panels & cron
- 8 integrations: Keka, ClickUp, Discord, GitHub, Drive, Plivo, Vercel, Calendly
- Auto-provisioned channels, repos & folders from project records
- Analytics dashboards + Puppeteer PDF rendering
- Discord bot, cron jobs & mentoring junior engineers