Whale Report
Ocean Wise · client work · Sep 2025 to now
Lead backend engineer on Ocean Wise's whale-sighting platform, which turns sightings into real-time alerts for mariners, and on its versioned public partner API.
Ocean Wise is a conservation charity. Whale Report collects whale sightings from the public and from partners, and turns them into real-time alerts for mariners, to cut the risk of ships striking whales. I'm lead backend engineer on the service behind it and on the public API partners use to send sightings in and take alerts out.
- 440 merged PRs as lead on the backend
- 539 merged PRs across the Ocean Wise org
- 14 endpoints in the v2 partner API
stack: NestJS, TypeScript, Prisma, MySQL, Redis, BullMQ, Azure, OpenAPI