Creative technologist. I build fast, considered web experiences that don't waste anyone's time.

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<h3>Live API. Global Map. Consolidated Architecture.</h3>EpicenterHub is a real-time seismic monitoring dashboard pulling live data from the USGS Earthquake API. This project showcases a deep architectural refactor, migrating a disjointed React+Vite application into a high-performance, strictly typed Next.js 16 production dashboard. Core Engineering Highlights: • Codebase Consolidation: Drastically reduced technical debt by rewriting components to replace three competing charting libraries (ApexCharts, Chart.js, D3) with a single, unified Recharts system. • Robust State Management: Implemented a central Zustand store to manage global filters, feed periods, and map interactions—completely eliminating prop-drilling. • Enterprise Data Fetching: Replaced fragile hand-rolled useEffect hooks with React Query, unlocking stale-while-revalidate caching, background refetching, and automated retry policies. • Strict API Type Safety: Fully typed the complex, deeply nested USGS GeoJSON API surface to eliminate implicit 'any' states, catching malformed coordinates and null values at compile time before they ever hit the map layer. Built to handle high information density without sacrificing rendering speeds or layout coherence.

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Ghost In The Code is a digital identity system for a fictional high-immersion agency in the gaming and creative tech space. The design brief was simple and uncompromising: the interface itself is the brand. Every scroll, hover, and page load should feel like entering a world — not visiting a website. Built with React 19 and zero animation libraries. Every effect hand-rolled. The first design decision — and the one everything else follows from — was to treat atmosphere as a first-class deliverable, not a layer applied on top. The electric yellow (#fcee0a), the noir background (#0a0a0c), the scan-line overlay: none of these are decorative. They are the brand. A visitor who lands on Ghost In The Code should feel the identity before they read a single word.That constraint shaped every UX choice that followed. Scroll reveals are not subtle fades — they're deliberate, slightly slow, cinematic. The HUD corner brackets that appear on hover don't just signal interactivity; they deepen the fiction that you're navigating a real terminal. The data stream sidebar isn't content — it's peripheral atmosphere, visible enough to register, unreadable enough not to distract.The palette is a three-color system: yellow for action and emphasis, teal for data and information, red for warnings and destructive states. This isn't aesthetic preference — it's information design. A user scanning the interface can orient themselves by color alone, the way you'd read a HUD in an actual game. Bespoke Digital Identity: Tailored layout solutions designed to preserve extreme visual fidelity from initial concept to live production. High-Immersion Interactions: Engaging, micro-interaction-driven web environments that capture audience attention without relying on generic template builders. Performance-First Architecture: Impeccably structured React 19 execution utilizing localized styling and direct API integrations to keep client-side load times sub-100ms. Zero-Template Engineering: Building custom fluid grids and responsive breakout layouts engineered flawlessly for everything from ultra-wide displays to mobile viewports.