Field Assessment and Reporting for Livestock Operations
Netherlands
Two years of full-stack maintenance and feature delivery on a government-integrated field assessment platform. Plus the infrastructure work that kept it running.
The situation
A field assessment platform for livestock operations, including the documentation sent to national authorities after an incident. It was in production, load-bearing for the business, and needed both feature work and someone to keep it running.
What we built
Feature delivery
Assessment and visit report layouts, the SMS notifications accompanying them, validation for national registration numbers, and authority metadata. Report regeneration recurred throughout: a corrected assessment must produce a corrected document without invalidating the record of what was originally issued.
Operations
A self-managed Ubuntu VPS running Docker. MySQL backups, restores and tuning; data and stored-file migrations between production and test; connectivity diagnostics; and support for an external security audit the client commissioned.
What mattered
The stack was NestJS, Angular and MySQL. Not one we would have chosen. The correct response to an inherited system is almost never a rewrite. Work fluently in what exists and leave what you touch more maintainable.
Outcome
Twenty-two months of continuous delivery and production operations.