Talentcona

Problem

Students need a trusted way to fund education — enroll in programs, access loans and campaigns, get matched with mentors, and track progress to certification without juggling disconnected tools.

Context

Multi-sided platform with separate student, mentor, and admin apps — currently in dev and testing on Netlify, not yet in public production. Wallet balances, Paystack payments, loan lifecycles, and mentorship matching need audit trails, queue-backed async work, and strict enrollment policy enforcement before go-live.

Approach

• Built modular NestJS domains — programs, wallet, payment, funding, loan, mentorship, certification — with Prisma on PostgreSQL.
• Used BullMQ for payments, mentor matching, payouts, notifications, and async certificate PDF generation.
• Enforced student policy centrally — max concurrent enrollments, aid caps, and wallet-only enrollment paths.
• Separated platforms via X-Client-App auth so students, mentors, and admins cannot cross into the wrong UI.

Architecture

Outcome

Backend in active development — program enrollment, wallet top-ups, loans, campaigns, mentorship matching, LMS progress, and certificate issuance wired through queue-backed payment and payout flows, with the client apps exercised on the Netlify dev/testing environment ahead of production launch.