Empire Crypto — Crypto Education & Social Platform · John Anthony Pecson
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Empire Crypto Trading Lead Product Engineer
Crypto Education & Social Platform

Engineering a modern crypto education & social platform.

A production-scale SaaS platform combining premium education, community, real-time communication, live events, subscriptions, and social networking into one ecosystem for modern crypto traders.

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Important Empire Crypto Trading is not an exchange or brokerage, it's a modern education & social platform where crypto traders learn, connect, and grow together.
01, The Problem

Crypto learning lives in a dozen tabs.

Traders piece their education together across Discord, Telegram, Facebook, X, and scattered course platforms, with no single home to learn, discuss, and grow.

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02, The Vision

One hub for the whole journey.

An integrated ecosystem, not a pile of features, where traders learn, connect, share ideas, access premium research, attend live events, and build long-term knowledge in one place.

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03, The Ecosystem

Six products, one membership.

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04, Architecture

A modular, real-time SaaS architecture.

Built for feature modularity, real-time engagement, and a clean separation between content, commerce, and community.

Clients
Web App
Next.js · React
Mobile
iOS · Android
Application & services
NestJS
API
Ably
realtime
Stripe
billing
Sanity
CMS
Firebase
auth · push
Data & infrastructure
PostgreSQL
Redis
AWS
Cloudflare
Component detail
Modular by design
How content, commerce, and community stay cleanly separated yet move in real time.
05, Engineering Challenges

Social scale, in real time.

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06, Key Contributions

What I owned and shipped.

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07, My Role

Lead Full-Stack Developer & Product Engineer.

I owned significant technical initiatives end to end, not just contributing code, but designing systems, leading features from architecture through production, and keeping a complex platform reliable as it grew.

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08, Technology

The production stack.

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09, Product Gallery

See the platform.

Tap any screen to enlarge. Real product shots drop into these slots at handoff.

Landing page Landing page
Community feed Community feed
User profiles User profiles
Educational content Educational content
Live events Live events
Research portal Research portal
Notifications Notifications
Membership dashboard Membership dashboard
Settings Settings
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10, Product Impact

Outcomes, not line counts.

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11, Lessons Learned

What it taught me.

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Production-scale social SaaS, delivered.

Empire Crypto Trading shows I can take a complex social product from architecture through production, balancing engineering, UX, scale, and business goals.

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