Centro

Social Budgeting

Progressive Web App

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Overview


Centro is a collaborative PWA social budgeting app that simplifies financial management. It offers a comprehensive view of financial situations for groups and individuals, promoting long-term financial planning with premade categories and smart split presets.


Centro is flexible, supporting manual and automated data input from any source, and it works seamlessly across mobile, web, watches, browser extensions, and smart speakers. With the application, financial management becomes effortless and enjoyable, ensuring data integrity and delivering personalized insights. It empowers users to take control of their finances and plan for a secure future.


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Details

Features and Functionality

  • The application features income and expenses comparisons, including insights on YTY income and expenses variations
  • Predictive analysis on consumption categories to ameliorate users' monthly budgeting forecasting.
  • State-of-the-art OCR for recipt information capturing
  • Instantaneous bank transaction updates

Design

Centro's design features an array of microservices that are all connected to a central API. The API is responsible for handling all business logic and data management, while the microservices are responsible for handling specific tasks.


The microservices are all containerized and deployed to a Kubernetes cluster.


Accounts

Manages user accounts and authentication

Users

Handles user-related operations, such as user profile managemnet and preferences

Vendors

Retrieves vendor information based on search queries to support financial transactions

Tags

Manages tags or labels associated with transcations for categorization and analysis

Survey

Facilitates surveys or questionnaires to gather user feedback and insights

User Preferences

Stores and retrieves user-sepcific preferences for a personalized experience

Forecasting

Provides forcasting capabilities to predict future budgeting trends

Notification

Handles user notification preferences, enabling push notifications via various channels

Banking Integration

Facilitates communication with third-party APIs (Plaid, Flinks, Teller) for banking integration and credential generation

Currency Converter

Provides currency conversion functionality using downstream data sources and caching

Technologies

Nx
Next
Typescript
Node
Express
GraphQL
MongoDB
Storybook
Jest
Cypress
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS

Responsibilities

  • Developed the frontend of the application using React, TypeScript, and GraphQL
  • Architected the banking integration microservice schemas and API endpoints
  • Implemented the bank transaction integration functionality using third-party APIs from Plaid, Flinks and Teller
  • Implemented the CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and Docker
  • Performed unit and E2E testing using Jest, Cypress for the banking integration microservice and with other microservices respectively