At Testlify we were paying for a third-party time-tracking tool that didn't connect to how our engineering work actually happened in Jira. I led the frontend for Timesheets by AppForest, a Jira plugin that handles time tracking, productivity insight, and cost allocation. It's published on the Atlassian Marketplace and open for any team to install — and we run it internally too, where it replaced that paid tool.
What I built
- Jira integration: Built natively for the Atlassian Marketplace against Jira's developer APIs, working with the backend engineers to keep OAuth scopes and enterprise security requirements intact.
- In-Jira UI: Designed a responsive UI that lives right inside Jira issue panels, with one-click time logging and daily/weekly/monthly views — so engineers log time without switching tools.
- Reporting: Built the dashboards that show live productivity data, plus CSV and PDF export so stakeholders can pull reports on demand for cost allocation.
Why it mattered
It's a product any team on the Atlassian Marketplace can install. Internally, moving to it let us drop the paid third-party tool, saving over $9,000 a year, and gave leadership real-time visibility into team velocity and project cost that helped with forecasting.