David LoderTechnology Professional

Community2024

TUDev Platform

A containerized multi-service platform — Directus and Wiki.js behind a Next.js front end — that I designed, deployed and still operate.

  • Next.js
  • Docker
  • Directus CMS
  • Wiki.js
  • Nginx
  • Cloudflare
  • Akamai Cloud

TUDev is Temple University's developer student organization, and its public presence isn't really a site so much as a small platform: a Next.js front end with Directus handling content and Wiki.js handling documentation, each running as its own container on Akamai Cloud.

I configured Nginx Proxy Manager in front of it, with Cloudflare DNS and CDN and SSL termination, and I handle the ongoing half — patching, security configuration, and working out why a web server has stopped behaving. Separately containerized services mean a bad deploy takes down one thing instead of everything.

I built the reusable UI components and the design system that keep the services looking like one product, and wrote the technical documentation and handoff guides for whoever maintains it next. I served as the organization's president while running it, and in 2025 received the Computer and Information Sciences Student Leadership Award for that work.