The harder part of a search UI is not rendering results. It is keeping search terms, filters, pagination, and list updates from drifting out of sync. This React app used Redux thunks to keep those pieces moving together.

Scraped school data changes from page to page. I used PostgreSQL jsonb in a Rails API so the app could store uneven school details without constant schema changes, while keeping the response format simple for the frontend.

A fixed form is straightforward. A UI that lets people edit unknown key-value pairs is not. This React app sat on top of a schema-flexible Rails API, and the hard part was managing state while the shape of the data kept changing.

An internship search shouldn't force students to rebuild the same filters every time they come back. I built the flow so criteria persisted, geolocation stayed queryable, and search results could turn directly into resume drops.

At Skillit, opening a worker profile from search couldn’t mean losing the search that made the profile interesting. Passing a saved-search context through the profile page let Rails keep the recruiter workflow intact.