Ekehi Engineering Sprint 2 — Building the Ekehi Resource Discovery Engine

The article details how the author architected and shipped a funding discovery platform called Ekehi for African women entrepreneurs during a one-week sprint with a team of 7. The system uses a layered architecture with a Node.js/Express API on Render sitting between the Netlify frontend and Supabase backend, deliberately avoiding direct client-to-database calls for security. Key design decisions include defence-in-depth security with both Row Level Security and server-side query filtering, plus a strict four-layer backend separation (Route → Controller → Service → Supabase SDK).