Jostle Corporation

The problem Jostle's solving

Jostle is an employee intranet platform. It gives organizations one place where employees can read company news, share updates, find colleagues, and keep the files they need. Its goal is to keep large teams connected and engaged, so every part of the product has to feel easy and consistent, especially the everyday content people post and share.

I spent an 8-month co-op as a software developer on the Files & Apps team. I worked on how files and media are shared across the platform, building React components that plug into Jostle's GWT codebase.

What I Took Away

• Reusable components compound. Building AFU once and dropping it into a new surface did more for consistency than any one-off feature could.
• Bridging old and new stacks is a skill. Most of the hard work was getting React to run cleanly inside a mature GWT application.
• Demo early, demo often. Biweekly demos to the team made me explain my work clearly and pushed each feature to a finished state.

Thanks to Charles, my supervisor, and the whole Files & Apps team for making this possible.