Football Social Media Application

This app allows users to discover and share amateur football videos across the UK, featuring advanced functionalities such as image processing, compression, and uploads.

Key achievements include implementing a complex TikTok-like scroller page: a virtualised vertical pager that plays one clip at a time and switches between a popular feed, a regional one, and a feed limited to the players a user follows. An impression is recorded as each clip comes into view, which is what the in-app rankings read from. Uploading was the other hard part on a phone, so clips are checked for orientation and size, compressed on the device, then sent to signed storage URLs as a background upload that survives the user leaving the screen.

The product is two-sided. Players build a profile and post clips; scouts search the player base, add players to a watchlist and reach them through an in-app mailbox, and players see who is watching them. Content control mattered throughout: any clip can be reported, admins work a moderation queue in a companion React dashboard, and screenshots and screen recording are blocked at the native layer so a player's footage cannot be lifted out of the app.

My role involved managing the entire development process and the security work that keeps users' content controlled, across the React Native app, a typed GraphQL layer generated from the NestJS schema, and Firebase for authentication, push, analytics and crash reporting.