A developer education platform at enterprise scale

The challenge

The client needed a public learning platform for its global developer community: courses and certifications on its own enterprise WordPress hosting, single sign-on with its product ecosystem, and rich interactive content.

Everything also had to meet the client’s internal standards for code quality, performance and security.

What we did

• Delivered courses with Sensei LMS, customised for the client’s certification flows.
• Added interactive quizzes, drag-and-drop exercises and code-based interactions with H5P, without custom development for each interaction type.
• Connected single sign-on to the client’s existing identity system, so developers move between the platform and the main product without a second login.
• Built course authoring on the client’s own block framework, with React components where standard blocks weren’t enough.
• Tuned performance with edge caching, asset optimisation and lazy-loaded course content.

Key decisions

• An LMS, not a custom engine. Sensei LMS brought a mature, WordPress-native course and certification feature set to customise, so delivery was faster than building a custom engine.
• Editors in control. H5P and the client’s block framework let the content team build and publish courses without waiting for engineering.
• Existing sign-on. Using the client’s identity system avoided a separate password store and let developers sign in once.

What this delivered

The platform gives a developer community courses and certifications on the client’s own enterprise WordPress hosting, with one sign-on shared with the main product. The content team publishes courses without engineering help, and the build passed the client’s internal security and performance audits.

Stack

• WordPress (enterprise hosting)
• Gutenberg
• React
• Sensei LMS
• H5P
• SSO