CoLab Exeter.

01 / Context

The brief

CoLab Exeter needed a mental-health application shaped around the charity’s requirements. Our team had to turn those requirements into features and deliver a deployed system.

02 / Responsibility

My responsibility

I led a team of six, translated a charity’s requirements into a Django mental-health application, and delivered its cloud deployment and migration.

• A team of sixLed delivery of a Django mental-health application for an Exeter charity.
• A move without interruptionMigrated the application from Google Cloud to DigitalOcean with zero downtime.

03 / Approach

Building and deploying

I led the team and translated the charity’s requirements into features, using Django as the application framework. I first deployed the system on Google Cloud and later migrated it to DigitalOcean, keeping the service available during the move.

1. 01

   Understand

   Translate the charity’s requirements into features.

2. 02

   Deliver

   Build the Django application and deploy it on Google Cloud.

3. 03

   Move, keep serving

   Migrate to DigitalOcean with zero downtime.

04 / Result

Delivery and migration

The team built and deployed the application. I migrated it from Google Cloud to DigitalOcean with zero downtime, combining technical delivery with team leadership.