Autumn
Autumn is a funeral-planning and after-loss guidance platform. At its center is an interactive checklist — sections, chapters, and tasks — that walks a bereaved family through arranging a service and the logistics that follow, progress saved as they go.
Around the checklist sit memorial pages, a provider directory of funeral homes and end-of-life services, a library of guides, and a glossary — and, on the other side, an onboarding flow where those providers build and manage their own listings.
Co-founder and lead engineer across its four-year life. Owned the backend, and most recently re-architected the whole product into a single monorepo — pinning a legacy CMS to keep it alive and solving the dual-architecture Apple Silicon setup it now runs on, one half emulated under Rosetta and the other native.
Credits
- Alex NguyenCo-founder & lead engineer — architecture, backend & platform
- Autumn engineering teamFeature development across a four-year build
Stack
- Frontend
- Next.js 13 · Apollo GraphQL · Material-UI
- CMS
- Strapi 3.6.8 · 52 content types
- Auth & search
- Auth0 · MeiliSearch
- Media
- Cloudinary
- Infra
- monorepo · PM2 · Node 14/20 dual-arch
- Deploy
- Railway



