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Justin Frahm

Justin developed and maintained the InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect backend, delivering features that improved licensing workflows, security, and data resilience for multi-jurisdiction state deployments. He engineered modular backend services and robust APIs using Python and TypeScript, applying AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and CDK for scalable infrastructure. His work included granular license status modeling, ECDSA-based authentication, automated cross-account backups, and event-driven email notifications, all supported by schema validation and comprehensive testing. By refactoring data models, enhancing permission workflows, and modernizing deployment pipelines, Justin ensured reliable operations, compliance, and maintainability, demonstrating depth in cloud engineering, API security, and infrastructure as code practices.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

85%Features

Repository Contributions

44Total
Bugs
5
Commits
44
Features
29
Lines of code
160,220
Activity Months12

Your Network

7 people

Work History

October 2025

9 Commits • 5 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly performance for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect focused on delivering modular backend architecture, robust API contracts, improved reporting reliability, and strengthened test automation readiness. Key outcomes include backend infra modernization enabling multi-service deployment, API schema validation to improve data integrity, refactored reporting window logic for consistent scheduling, faster ingest error visibility, and test-environment SRP authentication toggling to support ZAP automation while aligning UI sign-in with security profiles. These changes collectively enhance deployment velocity, data accuracy, operational clarity, and security testing capabilities.

September 2025

4 Commits • 3 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 summary: Security and reliability improvements across InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect. Implemented ECDSA-based signature authentication, hardened deployment role permissions and CDK bootstrap trust, protected license upload data integrity, and strengthened MFA controls for account takeovers. Documentation and tests updated to reflect changes, contributing to stronger security posture, predictable deployments, and data integrity across critical workflows.

August 2025

8 Commits • 4 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 monthly performance summary for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect focused on delivering data accessibility, security, and resilience improvements that drive business value for state-level deployments and licensing workflows. The work highlights a new State API, enhanced encumbrance controls, strengthened security/communications, and tightened transaction processing limits with improved resilience and observability. All changes were accompanied by updated documentation and tests to ensure maintainability and rapid onboarding for stakeholders.

July 2025

2 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect: Delivered two mission-critical features that enhance customer communications, data resiliency, and security. The Email Notification System for License and Privilege Events was implemented with consistent event publishing, new email templates for multiple scenarios, improved event listener maintainability, and extensive test coverage, enabling reliable, scalable user communications. The Data Retention and Cross-Account Backup Infrastructure was established to protect data integrity and support disaster recovery across AWS accounts, including automated backups for DynamoDB and S3, cross-account backup vaults, a Cognito user pool export Lambda, and KMS-based protection for sensitive data. These initiatives improve compliance readiness, reduce RTO/RPO risks, and strengthen the platform's operational resilience. Demonstrated technologies include AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Cognito, KMS, event-driven architectures, template-driven email generation, and comprehensive testing.

June 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025: Focused on enhancing the No uploads in 7 days email notification for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect. Implemented inclusion of compact operational emails in the recipient list, updated ingest-related email templates to use the full compact name, and ensured the system retrieves and applies compact configuration details when sending these notifications, improving reliability and audience accuracy.

May 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 — Delivered foundational multi-jurisdiction support for the counseling compact in InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect. Added Georgia (ga) and Utah (ut) configuration files with placeholder license types, privilege fees, and environment-specific settings to enable testing and future expansion. Established a test-ready configuration framework to support staged rollouts and QA validation.

April 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect focused on a targeted data-model redesign of license status within the compact system. This work splits the single shared status into three distinct fields—licenseStatus, compactEligibility, and licenseStatusName—enabling more granular, accurate status representation and improved downstream decisioning for licensing workflows. The change includes a database migration and updates to code paths to support the new data model, ensuring smooth transition with minimal downtime.

March 2025

3 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 summary for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect: Delivered three major capability areas including provider onboarding/communications enhancements via Cognito email styling and migration readiness, licensing flexibility with multi-license support and data/schema updates, and security/governance improvements through centralized audit logging and a multi-account CloudTrail setup. Also removed legacy migrations to streamline future migrations and strengthened test infrastructure and coverage for licensing changes. Business impact includes improved user communications, more flexible provider licensing, stronger security/compliance posture, and a scalable foundation for multi-account deployments. Technologies demonstrated include AWS Cognito, CloudTrail, data migrations, schema evolution, and enhanced test infrastructure.

February 2025

7 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect focused on delivering secure, privacy-conscious backend enhancements and value-driven features across the platform. Delivered API-level capabilities, governance-enabling changes, and security hardening, with emphasis on reliability, data protection, and cross-service consistency.

January 2025

4 Commits • 3 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025: Delivered key backend and security enhancements for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect that strengthen data integrity, security posture, and developer productivity. Core work included a backend data model refactor with new license/privilege record types and a provider-user creation script; improved API security with multi-origin CORS and refined gateway responses; and a Staff User lifecycle overhaul enabling deletion of permissions, a clear active/inactive status, and automatic activation on login. No standalone bug fixes were reported; these feature-driven changes improve stability and governance, support higher transaction throughput for privilege purchases, and simplify staff onboarding.

December 2024

3 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 performance snapshot for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect: Delivered security and governance enhancements, stabilized permissions, and strengthened cloud infrastructure to enable scalable, compliant feature delivery. Key outcomes include migrating CloudFront to Origin Access Control (OAC) for secure S3 access, introducing an SSN table for sensitive provider data, and hardening user permission handling against empty/null action sets. These changes reduce security risk, improve data governance, and enhance system reliability with minimal customer impact.

November 2024

1 Commits

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024 (2024-11) monthly summary for InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect. Focused on stabilizing admin permissions workflow. No new user-facing features delivered this month. Major effort concentrated on diagnosing and fixing a Staff User PATCH conflict, refactoring permission updates to use separate DynamoDB calls for additions and removals, and expanding test coverage to cover no-change scenarios. This work reduces potential race conditions, prevents erroneous permission states, and improves reliability of admin operations.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness90.0%
Maintainability85.4%
Architecture88.2%
Performance78.4%
AI Usage36.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashHTMLJSONJavaScriptMarkdownPythonShellTextTypeScriptYAML

Technical Skills

API DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI GatewayAPI IntegrationAPI SecurityAWSAWS API GatewayAWS BackupAWS CDKAWS CloudFormationAWS CloudTrailAWS CognitoAWS DynamoDBAWS IAMAWS KMS

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

InspiringApps/JCC-CompactConnect

Nov 2024 Oct 2025
12 Months active

Languages Used

JSONPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptShellMarkdownYAMLBash

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAWS DynamoDBBackend DevelopmentPythonUnit TestingAWS CDK

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