Mental Health Publishing Platform
TherapyTips.org — Mental Health Publishing Platform
TherapyTips.org is a mental-health publishing platform built for Awake Therapy, combining editorial content and SEO-driven quiz engines on a Payload CMS backend — scaled to 50,000+ monthly users at 99.9% uptime.
Full-Stack Engineer & Product Lead · Awake Therapy & TherapyTips.org · Dec 2024 – Nov 2025
The problem
Content publishing was slow and manual, and the quiz-based content driving engagement needed a faster, more reliable pipeline as traffic grew.
What I built
- A full-stack publishing platform on React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS
- Payload CMS editorial workflows that cut publishing time 87% (2h → 15m)
- SEO-driven quiz engines driving 10,000+ monthly completions
Results
- Scaled to 50,000+ monthly users at 99.9% uptime
- Publishing time cut 87% (2h → 15m) with Payload CMS workflows
- 10,000+ monthly quiz completions, a 45% lift in session duration
Stack
- React
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Payload CMS
- AWS
- SEO
"He consistently delivered clean, modern interface work and approached each project with a strong sense of ownership and attention to detail. Any team seeking a technically strong, reliable, and thoughtful developer would be fortunate to have him."
Mark Travers, Ph.D. · Lead Psychologist, Awake Therapy