// Case Study 01 · Demonstration Project

WealthWise

A production-grade fintech portfolio platform — built end to end, backend through infrastructure, not just a frontend.

AWS services, orchestrated via Terraform

observability tools wired end to end

// What It Is

A real pipeline, not a demo wrapped around mock data

WealthWise is a portfolio-tracking dashboard for fintech-style investment data — built as a demonstration project, not a live product with real users. The goal was never a UI wrapped around fake JSON; it was proving out a complete build-to-operate pipeline end to end: a real Django REST API, a React frontend consuming it, and the exact infrastructure and observability discipline a production fintech platform would actually need underneath — provisioned as code, deployed through a real CI/CD pipeline, and watched by the same class of tools production systems use.

// How It's Put Together

Three things had to work together

How a request gets served, how a deploy actually ships, and how anyone would know if either one broke.

01 — Request Path

Client

ALB

EC2Docker · Django REST

RDSPostgreSQL

EC2 also reads/writes

DynamoDB

02 — Delivery Pipeline

Jenkins

Docker Build

ECR

EC2deploy

03 — Observability Loop

App (EC2)

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

ALB / EC2 / RDS

CloudWatch

Every piece above — VPC, EC2, RDS, ALB, S3, ECR, DynamoDB — is defined in Terraform. Nothing here was clicked together by hand.

// The Stack

What it actually runs on

Backend

DjangoDjango REST FrameworkPostgreSQL

Frontend

ReactTailwindCSS

Infrastructure

DockerTerraformVPCEC2RDSALBS3ECRDynamoDB

CI/CD

Jenkins

Observability

OpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaCloudWatch

// Honest Framing

What this actually demonstrates

Full ownership of the deploy pipeline, not just application code — Jenkins builds and ships Docker images through ECR onto Terraform-provisioned EC2.
Real observability discipline: request traces through OpenTelemetry, metrics in Prometheus and Grafana, infrastructure-level alarms in CloudWatch — not just an uptime ping.
Infrastructure as code from the ground up — VPC, EC2, RDS, ALB, S3, ECR, and DynamoDB all defined in Terraform, reproducible from a clean AWS account.
A real fintech-shaped data model — portfolios, holdings, performance over time — served by an actual Django REST API, not mocked JSON.

← All Work