Partner / Part Time CTO — Rapport
Rapport is designed to help small and midsized businesses realize the benefits of sustainability: Save Money, Comply with Customer Data Requests, Win New Contracts and Bolster your Brand.
Glenn is one of the four partners of Rapport and serves as a part time CTO. The award winning Rapport.io platform is revolutionizing and democratizing sustainability tracking for small and medium sized business. Glenn manages the development of the entire web application.
Rapport uses the following Technologies
- Ruby on Rails
- MySQL database (migrating to Postgres)
- Several RoR plugins
Challenges included:
- Making the system quick and easy for first-time users to set up.
- Ensuring that the web application was functional across desktop, tablet, and mobile browsers.
- Evaluating and choosing the best dashboard and BI tools – included looking at Microsoft’s PowerBI, which was released as open source in August 2015.
- Adapting the architecture to be flexible enough to support localized CO2 equivalency data to aid in the calculations of carbon footprints.