A Divisão

The problem

Leaving the military is a hard transition to make alone. The skills transfer — discipline, operating under pressure, running teams that cannot afford to improvise — but the vocabulary does not, and the network that would normally carry someone into a new job is mostly still inside the barracks.

A Divisão exists to close that gap: a movement that puts serving military, veterans, military families and companies in the same place, with training and networking around it. The engineering problem is the one underneath — a platform that has to hold a public campaign and a private members area at the same time, and stay standing when a post lands and everyone arrives at once.

What I built

I architected the platform and built it out across the public site and the member area, on a stack that stays cheap to run between traffic spikes and does not fall over during one.

The team runs on the dashboards: real-time metrics on signups and engagement, plus an audit view that records who changed what. In an organisation handling military and veteran data, “who touched this record” is not a nice-to-have.

Membership is paid, so the monetisation side is part of the platform rather than bolted onto it: Stripe checkout, plan control, and subscription state the member area reads before it opens a door.

Technical decisions

Next.js on the front, Supabase behind it. Server rendering means the campaign pages are complete and indexable on first response — the same property that makes them fast for a visitor arriving from a phone on mobile data.

Supabase Postgres as the single source of truth. Membership, companies and opportunities are relational data with real constraints between them. Enforcing those in the database — constraints and row-level security, rather than discipline in application code — is what keeps the member area consistent as features get added around it.

Docker for parity, CI/CD for the release. Test and deploy run on every push, so releases stopped being events. The cycle time drop was the visible part; the part that mattered more was that shipping a fix at 11pm no longer meant remembering a sequence of manual steps.

Where it stands

Live at adivisao.com.br, with the movement pages public and the members area behind sign-in. Work on it is ongoing.