Made by gdmks
Knowledge is power
WIZR was the idea of a knowledge-sharing platform designed for lifelong learners who thrive through real-life practice. Whether you’re honing a skill or exploring new interests. an app that provides the perfect space to connect with like-minded individuals, share valuable insights, and grow together in real-time. The idea for WIZR began as a way to practice learning a language through real interactions with other people, where lessons could be exchanged instead of money. a peer-to-peer learning platform created for lifelong learners who believe in the power of real-life practice and knowledge sharing to grow and succeed. We then realized that learning shouldn’t be limited to languages—there are countless skills to share and explore. WIZR became a platform where you can connect with like-minded individuals, exchange valuable insights, and grow together in real-time, whether you’re honing an existing skill or discovering something new. Hopefully creating a vibrant community of passionate learners, networking, and developing meaningful connections Where learning is a interactive, social experience. empowering you to turn knowledge into action power
The Team
Kathryn Barge
A physics student turned full stack developer with a…
long-term curiosity about anything tech! I’m a big fan of getting to grips with unfamiliar technologies in my work, but when I do venture away from the computer I enjoy language learning, bouldering with friends and feeding the local geese.
Giuseppe Bisignano
A creative, technically driven junior developer with a…
background in design, e-commerce and customer experience. After earning a diploma in Computer Science and working for years at the intersection of design and tech, I reignited my passion through an intensive bootcamp at Northcoders. I love building intuitive, accessible full-stack applications that blend logic and design. I thrive in collaborative environments, learn fast, and bring a sharp eye for detail. Outside coding, I stay inspired through music production, interior design and sports.
Daniel Norbert
I am a junior software developer with a background in…
Hospitality Management. I have recently completed the Northcoders software development program and am seeking to transition into hospitality software development or events-based systems through a junior developer role or in a consulting capacity. Combining enthusiasm, a creative mindset and vast experience client-side with software development technical skills, I believe this combination gives me the unique ability to understand client needs while simultaneously managing their expectations and the ability to translate clients’ needs to development teams in a technically digestible way.
Shannel Feranand
Aspiring software developer currently training at…
Northcoders, where I’m gaining experience in full-stack development using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS, with a strong focus on test driven development. I bring a natural problem-solving mindset and solid organizational skills from managing a household. Outside of coding, I enjoy reading and caring for plants. I’m excited to grow into a meaningful developer role where I can contribute, keep learning, and build impactful software.
Marco Moronese
Hi, I’m Marco. I got into web development after struggling…
with a poorly designed website. It made me curious about how digital experiences are built and how they can be improved. Guided by some friends, I quickly became hooked by the creativity, logic and problem-solving that coding involves, and I’m now further developing my skills through the Northcoders bootcamp.
Tech Stack
We used: Nest.js, MongoDB, Typescript and React as our stack, with Socket.io, webRTC and Redis As our project was fairly backend-focused, we selected technologies that would help us to organise this. We decided to use Nest.js as our backend framework, both to provide a consistent structure to the backend, and so that it could be used as a signalling server for the parts of our application that relied on sockets. This lent itself well to also using Typescript, as it is well-supported by Nest and helped us to minimise errors when working on a team with multiple people. Nest also has built-in support for Redis, which made it an easy pick to organise a queue structure for our pairing logic. We used socket.io for our sockets as it was well-documented, and chose webRTC for a video calling as it could be set up at no cost. We opted for MongoDB as our Database, since the data we needed to store was non-relational and it gave us the opportunity to try out a different kind of database from the relational ones we were used to. We stuck with React for our frontend as we were all familiar with it and we already had plenty new going on in the backend- although using typescript with react was still a new experience in and of itself!
Challenges Faced
Getting used to using branches and collaborating in github definitely had a learning curve! We also spent a decent amount of time reading through the docs and spiking for the new technologies we were trying out.