CPA Learning Platform

Problem

CPA prep at this scale is unforgiving: a structured multi-part syllabus, live classes on real schedules across time zones, and a six-figure learner base whose progress state has to be correct. Delivery, scheduling and learner management had to work as one product, not three integrations.

What I built

• Course, content and learner management at six-figure learner scale.
• Live class delivery and scheduling through Zoom SDK integration.
• REST API and platform foundations that are still in production today.
• A phased cross-framework rebuild that turned a simulation-labs prototype into a production feature of the main application.

Technical decisions & trade-offs

• A three-layer data seam from the prototype work, so swapping static content for live APIs touches one layer and nothing above it.
• Platform foundations built to be shared with a second certification product rather than forked later.
• Live-session state driven by the scheduling source of truth rather than duplicated per surface.

Challenges solved

• Moving a feature across frameworks with zero rewrite of the consuming UI, in audit, data-architecture and UI phases.
• Keeping live-class and scheduling state consistent for cohorts spanning time zones.

Outcome

In production since 2019, serving CPA candidates at six-figure scale. The API and platform foundations laid early still carry the product today.