The work i do can be pretty boring and behind the scenes for the most part, but i figured i'd share a few tidbits nonetheless... I'd have to say that probably

The work i do can be pretty boring and behind the scenes for the most part, but i figured i'd share a few tidbits nonetheless... I'd have to say that probably developing the page over at https://apturicovid.lv/#en https://apturicovid.lv/#en Back when vaccinations hadn't even started properly, contact tracing was viewed as one of the ways slow down the spread of COVID, so around 100 professionals in my country got together and worked on developing the Latvian contact tracing application "Apturi Covid" ("Stop Covid"), in which i also got to partake in. Sure, creating the site wasn't anywhere nearly as impressive as working on the actual back end which some other people got to do, but i'd say that it was still pretty useful, since it served as the first point of contact towards getting to know the initiative for hundreds of thousands of people, allowed embedding the ToS and Privacy Policy in a web view for the mobile apps and also allowed various companies and media organizations to access visual and audio materials to inform their clients about the app. On a more personal level, it was proof that you can leverage modern technologies pretty effectively when you're not dealing with projects that are in maintenance hell and that have endless amounts of technical debt, or a restrictive governance structure. Furthermore, it was proof that a team of capable people can work together pretty efficiently, in stark contrast to the "e-health" system in Latvia, which has cost about 15 million euros to develop to date, and still doesn't even work: https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/latvija/par-e-veselibas-galveno-diagnozi-atzist-slikto-planosanu-un-vadisanu.a350191/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=lt&_x_tr_pto=nui https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/latvija/par-e... I guess it also got recognized in the local industry somewhat, since the app itself received an award as well: https://likta-lv.translate.goog/pieskirtas-ikt-nozares-balvas-platina-pele-2020/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=lt&_x_tr_pto=nui https://likta-lv.translate.goog/pieskirtas-ikt-nozares-balva... Well, it's either that, or fixing production issues that block the work of healthcare organizations. I actually once went to visit one such institution to get an idea about what the problems with their system were in person and saw the queues of people forming, none of which could receive the services that they needed. Fixing those issues by ripping out the neglected components of that outsourced project and replacing them with something that actually worked was satisfying, since i had a direct experience with the problem that i was solving by doing so. That "boots on the ground" experience was pretty humbling.