Architex - System Design Practice Platform

Problem and Approach

A full-stack platform for practicing system design interviews, built as a university project (IT354 - Web Systems I) with draft, submission, and reviewer workflows.

Technical Learnings

• Role-based workflow modeling for user and reviewer responsibilities
• State transition design from draft to submission to grading
• JWT authentication and route protection across client and server layers
• Excalidraw integration for persistent architecture diagram workflows
• Modular REST API design with SQLite-backed domain models