Haufe aAcademy

Screenshot of the detail page of a course called "Die digitale Organisation" offered on the Haufe eAcademy platform. At the top there's a header area showing the current progress made in the course. Below that, there's a list of all videos and lessons that belong to this course.

As the leader of workplace training in the German-speaking world the Haufe Group started in 2019 to offer courses digitally on their new eAcademy e-learning platform.

One of the key challenges in this project was obviously building a fairly complex platform in a small team of two and later all by myself while being employed at überdosis, including a checkout process and a sophisticated mass onboarding tool for big teams and companies.

Integrating the platform into existing LMS systems using the Scorm standard was also an exciting challenge.

Another one was creating and maintaining the necessary infrastructure to run the platform on AWS redundantly and scalable within the given compliance and security guidelines. We chose Docker Swarm over EKS and ECS to keep the complexity of the infrastructure and the costs as low as possible. I used Terraform and CI/CD to deploy the infrastructure and make multiple environments easy.