This site

My old site said the right things, but it felt like a template. It had heavy plugins, sliders and extra fonts, the sections didn't belong together, and there was no clear path from who I am to what I build.

I work on frontend architecture and performance, so my own site has to prove it. A slow, generic portfolio would undercut everything written on it.

I treated it like a real product: one design system, proper routes, and a performance check after every change.

• The design system has one shape language with cut corners, two colour tokens, dark and light modes, and three typefaces loaded through next/font.
• Pages are rendered on the server. A small client script handles the motion, the achievements and the 404 game, and cleans up after itself on every route change.
• I measured instead of guessing. Lighthouse and main-thread traces on a throttled phone showed a lightning bolt being redrawn with blur on every frame, and a typewriter effect that relaid the page on every letter. Both run on the compositor now, and they look the same.