open to interesting problems

Hi, I'm Your Name.
I ship pixels & train models.

Front-end engineer by trade, AI tinkerer by night, and Stack Overflow archaeologist by morning. I care about clean abstractions, fast feedback loops, and design systems that don't make me cry.

see the journey → drop a line

~/about-me — zsh

            $ whoami
            Tony — front-end × AI
            $ cat skills.json
            { "react": true, "ts": true,
              "css": "decent", "python": true,
              "llm": true, "patience": false }
            $ ls ./current_focus
            agentic-workflows/  design-systems/  webgpu-shaders/
            $ uptime
            up 26 years, 1 coffee, load avg: 0.42
            $ 
          

A little about me

// the short version

I'm a front-end engineer with a soft spot for AI. Day to day I build interfaces that feel fast, honest, and a little bit delightful — the kind that don't get in your way. Night to night I fine-tune models, build agentic workflows, and pretend to understand attention mechanisms.

My favorite bugs are the ones where the code works for the wrong reason. I believe git blame is mostly a memoir, and that the best documentation is the kind you don't need.

Off-screen I read too much sci-fi, run for sanity, and treat espresso like a research project. If you want to talk about design systems, retrieval-augmented generation, or why your CI is slow — I'm in.

years breaking production

∞

browser tabs open

40+

models fine-tuned, mostly in vain

regrets* (*a few)

React TypeScript Next.js Vue CSS · the fun kind Tailwind Node Python PyTorch LangChain Vector DBs Figma WebGL Vim > VS Code*

Where I've been

// the slightly longer version

Senior Front-end Engineer @ Some Cool Company 2023 — Now

Shipped product at the intersection of design systems and AI tooling.

Built a design system serving 60+ engineers — only 3 people complained, a personal record.
Cut LCP by 42% on the marketing site through aggressive refactoring and vibes.
Prototyped an internal agent that turns Figma into React. It's wrong half the time, and weirdly useful.
Mentored 4 junior devs. They all still have hair. Mostly.

Front-end Engineer @ Early-stage Startup 2021 — 2023

Wore every hat that had a keyboard attached to it.

Rebuilt the marketing site in 2 weeks. It crashed on launch day. We recovered. Mostly.
Migrated ~80% of the codebase to TypeScript. The other 20% is held together by hope and any.
Wrote 200+ Storybook stories. Read maybe 5 of them. They were great.
Discovered that "responsive design" is mostly crying and min-width: 0.

Junior Developer @ Digital Agency 2019 — 2021

Where I learned that everything I knew was wrong, twice over.

Made things move. Then made them stop. Then made them move again, but better.
Shipped 30+ client sites. Some still load under 1s. I treat this as a moral victory.
Discovered the joy of git rebase --abort at 2am.
Realized I'd be doing this forever. Tracked down a therapist just in case.

Things I geek out on

// the human side

🤖

Prompt engineering

Turning "I don't know" into a coherent answer, one temperature setting at a time.

⌨️

Mechanical keyboards

Louder ≠ better. But it helps. Current build: 65%, brass, tactile, slightly smug.

☕

Espresso overengineering

9 bars, 93°C, 18g, 30s, existential crisis. The shot is acceptable.

📚

Sci-fi novels

The kind where AI takes over. I'm usually rooting for it.

🎮

Strategy games

Chess, Civ, Factorio. The throughline: optimization is a love language.

🏃

Running

Outdoors, headphones, away from my laptop. Best CI/CD: legs, pavement, music.

🧠

Reading papers

I pretend to understand transformers. Sometimes I even do.

🌐

Open source

I read more code than I write (publicly). My GitHub stars folder is a personality trait.

Let's build something

// the call to action

Got something cool in mind?

Whether it's a side project, a job, a paper, or just a strong opinion about monospace fonts — my inbox is open and my reply time is "eventually".