Students · Expo for iOS & Android
Student mobile app
Move from enrollment to learning, assessment, and progress in one focused experience.- Classes, modules, books, and discussions
- Activities, exams, attendance, and profile
Production case study · Education, LMS & school publishing
ByteLift
One education platform for classrooms, content, and student progress.
As Software Development Consultant, I focus on the Rails platform, production learning workflows, and the integration foundations shared by ByteLift's web and mobile experiences.
The problem
Keep every learning activity connected to the same student record.
A school LMS must connect controlled enrollment, classroom membership, lessons, books, activities, exams, attendance, discussions, and live sessions while still giving administrators and teachers clear tools to manage the system.
- Keep student identity and enrollment controlled without making access difficult for schools.
- Make web and mobile experiences reflect the same classroom, content, and progress state.
- Support documents, video, assessments, discussions, and live sessions without one workflow obscuring another.
- 01
Enroll
A student identifies and redeems school-issued access.
- 02
Join
Classes, teachers, books, and modules become available.
- 03
Learn
Lessons combine structured text, video, and documents.
- 04
Practice
Activities and discussions reinforce classroom work.
- 05
Assess
Exams capture attempts, answers, and review states.
- 06
Progress
Attendance and completion remain connected to the learner.
The product
Three surfaces, one education platform.
The Rails application serves the public website, school and teacher workflows, administration, and versioned APIs. The Expo application gives students a focused mobile learning experience.
Schools, teachers & admins · Rails web
School & teacher LMS
Organize people, classes, subjects, content, and assessments.- School, class, student, and content management
- Assessment, attendance, livestream, and reporting workflows
Schools, educators & customers · Public web
Publishing & programs web
Present robotics programs, learning materials, events, and educational products.- Grade 1–10 robotics curriculum and events
- Books, kits, shop, checkout, and account workflows
What I owned
Platform ownership with production delivery.
My work is concentrated in the Rails platform and delivery architecture, with foundational contributions to the mobile application and release path alongside the broader ByteLift team.
Platform & identity
- Implemented school-issued student enrollment codes and redemption workflows.
- Strengthened account recovery and password-reset behavior with integration coverage.
Learning & live delivery
- Built class livestream workflows with self-hosted LiveKit and verified webhooks.
- Delivered exam import, module sharing, and AI-assisted manual Q&A capabilities.
Mobile foundations
- Established the Expo app structure, data-query layer, authentication, and dashboard foundations.
- Set up location support and completed the initial iOS deployment path.
Engineering backbone
Rails keeps the learning domains connected.
A Rails 7.2 modular monolith keeps school, classroom, content, assessment, publishing, and commerce rules close to one MySQL data model. A shared Expo application consumes focused API v1 endpoints for the student experience.
Expo student app
A route-based mobile experience for enrollment, classes, content, assessment, and progress.
Rails web, API & services
Domain workflows, versioned mobile APIs, public pages, and service integrations in one application.
Admin & teacher tools
School setup, classroom management, publishing, training, and operational controls.
MySQL + S3
Relational learning records plus durable delivery for books, documents, images, and uploads.
Redis + LiveKit
Shared live state and synchronous classroom sessions with verified webhooks.
Expo + app stores
One React Native codebase distributed to iOS and Android learners.
- Students authenticate and use API v1 to read and update their learning state.
- Rails web and admin workflows manage schools, classes, content, assessments, and publishing.
- MySQL retains the durable record while S3, Redis, and LiveKit support media and live delivery.
Codebase footprint Repository snapshot · August 2026
- Applications
- 2Rails web/API platform and Expo mobile application
- Rails controllers
- 87Repository snapshot, August 2026
- Domain models
- 99Repository snapshot, August 2026
- Rails tests
- 193Repository snapshot, August 2026
- Mobile routes
- 45Repository snapshot, August 2026
Secondary implementation context, verified against the working repositories.
Impact & reflection
A maintained platform available across web, iOS, and Android.
Available on iOS and Android
Public App Store and Google Play listings make the student experience available across both major mobile platforms.
One connected learning record
Enrollment, classes, modules, books, activities, exams, attendance, and discussions resolve through one Rails platform.
Actively maintained
The iOS 1.0.20 release was published July 31, 2026, with the Android listing also showing a current 2026 update.
What I learned
Education software must fit the institution and the learner.
The student interface can stay focused only when enrollment, permissions, publishing, assessment, and recovery are explicit behind it. Good learning UX depends on dependable administrative workflows.
The next step is to keep strengthening automated coverage and observability as more classroom and content workflows move through the shared platform.
For education & product teams
Need someone who can connect learning workflows to production software?
I work across product modeling, Rails architecture, mobile integration, and the operational details that make multi-role platforms reliable after launch.
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