HICAPPS

The HICAPPS is a web development team and company based in Chile. Marcelo Lopetegui, the CEO, used to work with Phillip Payne when they were at The Ohio State University.

Philip contracts with HICAPPS to develop various web and mobile apps for various informatics projects. Most HICAPPS projects use Google Cloud and Firebase as backend service to their apps, and are developed with node.js and the Vue.js JavaScript framework.

Due to the international nature of their company, and the use of PHI data in the software applications, WUSTL will not let HICAPPS personnel directly host and access the production versions of their apps. The ICS group within I2DB serves as an intermediary for configuring and administering these apps in a"production" setting.

Additionally, HICAPPS uses Github Actions to deploy code to a production environment. This allows them to have more control on the development process while still not directly accessing the production environment itself.

Many of the recipes described in this chapter are related to the technical details of initializing, configuring, and administering various HICAPPS applications, and their corresponding backend cloud services, in production.

Key Personnel

Projects

Cielo

PGDCalc

PE-CGS

Moving Stories

Miscellaneous

DNS Issues

Document Repositories


Updated on August 7, 2025