Impact Social Cup, Jesús Pérez Paz

The Impact Social Cup application portal: sign-in page, with the competition's partner logos

Problem

The Impact Social Cup is an annual social-impact entrepreneurship competition. It needed one web platform to run every phase: applications, jury evaluation with configurable rubrics, partner discovery of projects, and admin configuration without code.

What I did

Technical lead (freelance): I designed and built the platform end to end, covering architecture, back end, front end, AWS infrastructure and AI features.
Delivered the MVP in February 2026 and phase 2 (AI evaluation, smart partner search, premium services) in September 2026.

Stack and architecture

TypeScript monorepo: NestJS API and Angular front end on PostgreSQL, with object storage and transactional email.
Infrastructure as code on AWS: serverless containers and a database behind a CDN.
CI/CD with GitHub Actions; unit, end-to-end (Playwright) and API tests.
Payments, invoicing and CRM integrations for the premium services.

Outcome

Four portals: admin, applicant, evaluator and partner.
Multi-step application with autosave and video upload.
Rubric-based jury scoring with a consensus period, plus AI-assisted evaluation and feedback.
Smart partner search for partners looking for projects.
Forms, categories, rubrics and emails configured without code.
In production on AWS since September 2026.