Glint Jewels Commerce & Operations Platform
Built Glint Jewels’ self-hosted commerce platform on AWS EC2, with multi-courier shipping and custom merchant operations.
A production commerce platform for Glint Jewels, built as a Yarn and Turborepo monorepo. It combines a Next.js storefront and merchant dashboard with a NestJS API, multi-courier fulfillment for Leopards, TRAX/Sonic, and PostEx, plus finance and inventory reporting with optional private Metabase.
Visibility
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Stack
Constraints, implementation, and outcomes.
Role
Full-stack and platform engineering — system architecture, storefront and dashboard, commerce API, courier integrations, and AWS deployment.
Problem
Glint Jewels needed a commerce system tailored to its own product, order, and shipping workflows, with more control over storefront merchandising and operations than a generic hosted setup provided.
Constraints
Cost-conscious single-instance AWS deployment
Keep infrastructure practical for a small team to operate
Protect customer and order data across staff tools and reporting
Support COD, Pakistani delivery operations, and multiple courier APIs
Solution
Built a three-app monorepo with a Next.js storefront and merchant dashboard, a modular NestJS API, and shared Zod contracts. Added a provider-neutral shipping layer with carrier adapters, shipment tracking and status updates, plus finance and inventory reporting for costs, settlements, refunds, and margins.
Architecture
Yarn workspaces and Turborepo monorepo
Next.js storefront and merchant dashboard
NestJS modular monolith API with shared Zod contracts
PostgreSQL and Prisma with Redis
Provider-neutral courier registry and adapters for Leopards, TRAX/Sonic, and PostEx
Docker Compose deployment on AWS EC2 behind Nginx and Cloudflare
Protected finance APIs, curated reporting views, and optional private Metabase
Outcomes
Integrated Leopards, TRAX/Sonic, and PostEx behind a shared courier interface
Created a shipping operations dashboard for courier attempts, tracking status, exceptions, and order lookup
Built finance and inventory reporting for cost snapshots, stock movements, refunds, courier settlements, reconciliation, and product margins
Added an optional private Metabase layer over curated, read-only reporting views
Delivered a brand-managed storefront with catalog, cart, COD checkout, orders, bundles, promotions, and campaign merchandising
Added an approval-based Product Copilot workflow for drafting catalog content
Next step
Continue expanding courier operations, finance reporting, and approval-based catalog automation as the business grows.