Turning Plans Into Code: My Week 2 Progress on Bloom After

By Chijioke Uzodinma | Backend Lead, Bloom After In my Week 1 article , I talked about laying the foundation for Bloom After — planning the database structure, onboarding the backend team, and translating the product requirements into a data model we could build on. This week was different. Instead of just planning the system, we actually started building the backend that will power the platform . By the end of the week, we had built roughly a quarter of the backend, including our database models, core APIs, authentication logic, and the first integrations with the frontend. What I Built This Week 1. Building the Backend Architecture One of my main responsibilities this week was setting up the core backend structure that the platform will run on. We began building the backend using Node.js with MongoDB via Mongoose, which allows us to define structured models for the different types of data Bloom After will manage. I worked on creating and wiring the main database models for: Resources