Migrated the abandoned animal adoption service of Hola Pet to a cloud-based delivery environment integrated with GitHub Actions to bring it back to a fully runnable state.
[Fig 2. Hola Pet Abandoned Animals Platform Revived Mobile Screenshot, 2025]
Original Stack
PHP 7.3 / Laravel 8 / MySQL 5.7
Revived Stack
PHP 8.3 / Laravel 12 / MySQL 8
Recovery notes
Cleaned up redundant fields and tables from the legacy database, and successfully migrated shelter information and adoption posts data.
Completely revamped the UI framework from obsolete Bootstrap 3 to modern Tailwind CSS 3 for an updated, streamlined user interface.
Upgraded core runtimes from PHP 7.3 to 8.3, Laravel 8 to 12, and MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 while writing complete functional tests to guarantee code integrity.
Implemented automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using GitHub Actions, eliminating the need for any manual deployments.
