Laying the Data Foundation: My Week 1 as Backend Lead for Bloom After

By Chijioke Uzodinma | Backend Lead, Bloom After When people think about building a website, they usually focus on what users see — the layout, the colors, and the pages. But behind every website is something users rarely think about: the structure of the data that powers it. For the International Women’s Day Sprint with the Tabi Project and TEE Foundation , our team is building Bloom After — a website designed to support Nigerian mothers dealing with Postpartum Depression (PPD) by providing trusted resources, clinic information, and supportive community stories. As the Backend Lead , my role during Week 1 (our setup week) was to help plan the data structure that will support these features and to get the backend team aligned before development begins. Translating the Product Idea into Data Before writing backend code, we first had to understand what kind of information Bloom After will manage. From the Product Requirements Document (PRD), the platform will eventually include: Educatio