01 · The craft
Nineteen years at the frontend
2007 → 2026
I started in 2007 as a web designer cutting mockups and hand-writing table-less HTML, the era when getting a layout to survive Internet Explorer was a craft in itself. Design came first for me, engineering followed, and that order still shows: I think in interfaces, then build the machinery underneath them.
The years since have run through most of what the frontend became. Responsive builds for NASCAR, Harley-Davidson, and Sky at Sapient. Adobe Experience Manager portals for Honeywell. Around forty WordPress themes before that, which is a kind of apprenticeship nobody designs on purpose but everybody benefits from.
Nineteen years in, the thing I care about hasn't changed: software that people use without noticing the effort behind it. The stack rotates; the standard doesn't.