KawalCOVID19 — Hospital Search API

KawalCOVID19 is a volunteer-driven civic tech initiative that helped Indonesians find accurate, up-to-date COVID-19 information during the pandemic.

My contribution

I built the backend API for hospital information search and indexing, built with TypeScript and backed by the Google Sheets API — the fastest way for a volunteer data team to keep hospital bed availability and contact information current without needing a full CMS.

What it does

• Serves searchable hospital records (location, contact info, bed availability) to the frontend.
• Indexes data maintained collaboratively by volunteers in spreadsheets, so non-engineers could keep information current in real time.
• Prioritized simplicity and reliability over infrastructure complexity, given the urgency of the response.