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MGM Atlas

Four SaaS tools, one self-hosted app

The lab's project HQ: portfolio, chat, PMO and voice in one place, so nobody pays for Jira and Slack anymore.

role
Head of IT Infrastructure & Architecture
org
MGM Laboratory
when
2025 — 2026

What it is

A research lab was losing its team between four subscriptions. Atlas replaces all of them with one self-hosted app — Netflix-style project discovery, Slack-style chat, a ClickUp-style PMO with kanban, Gantt, notes and collaborative whiteboards, and Discord-style voice rooms with screen share.

I owned the architecture and the infrastructure underneath: a NestJS API with 15 feature modules, 41 controllers and 48 Prisma models, three Socket.IO namespaces, a Yjs sidecar for live collaborative documents, LiveKit as the WebRTC SFU with egress recording, and Keycloak in front of all of it.

It runs on the lab's own hardware, behind its own reverse proxy, with presigned S3 uploads and VAPID push straight to the browser. No vendor holds the data.

where the effort went

  • Scale78
  • Realtime92
  • Security80
  • Craft88

the numbers

Feature modules
15
REST controllers
41
Prisma models
48
Internal users
100+

built with

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • NestJS
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
  • Socket.IO
  • LiveKit
  • Keycloak
  • Yjs
  • Redis
  • S3
  • Docker

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