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matt
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Creative developer with an enterprise background. Currently studying in Finland and building things I actually care about.

Designer by eye, dev by hand.
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6 years building. 1.5+ commercial, with enterprise clients. Based in Lahti. Open to the right work.

01about

I care about the details most people skip.

Designer and developer at the intersection of aesthetics and engineering. I'm drawn to the moments where an interface stops being a tool and starts feeling like a conversation: the 20ms animation that changes everything, the hierarchy that guides without announcing itself.

Got into this before finishing high school. Worked with enterprise clients. Moved to Finland to study. Still building things that feel right, not just things that work.

Open to the right opportunities
02the short version
2020
First real lines of code.

Started at a programming-focused high school. Built small things, broke most of them, and kept going until frontend and design started feeling less like school, and more like the thing.

enterprise · ongoing
Got into the industry early. Stayed there.

Joined the industry before finishing high school. While preparing for final exams, I was already shipping enterprise-ready code for biggest retailer in Poland. Still doing that now. Real codebases, real clients, and real stakes.

now · lahti
Studying, working, building what matters.

Moved to Finland to study. Now based in Lahti, balancing university, client work, and personal projects I care about. Built for the craft, not just the brief.

03what I do
01

Design

Interfaces and design systems. The hierarchy, the spacing, the part most people skip and everyone feels.

02

Frontend

React, TypeScript, Next. From architecture down to the last pixel, built to last and built to ship.

03

Motion & detail

The 20ms that makes a thing feel alive. Easing, timing, the difference between working and right.

04selected work
jAIn 2.0 platform preview
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FrontendUI DesignDesign System

jAIn 2.0

Solo frontend developer and UI designer on an AI-powered HR platform built for Jeronimo Martins. The full frontend layer: architecture, design system and every user-facing feature. Now in active use across the organisation.

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Product DesignChrome ExtensionDesign System

Sisu+

A browser extension that replaces the student portal at a Finnish university — dashboard, study timeline, degree progress and registrations, all from scratch. Solo design and build.

Sisu+ dashboard preview002
05stack
design
FigmaDesign systemsMotion
build
TypeScriptReactVue.jsAstroNext.jsTailwindFramer MotionThree.jsNodeGit
06by the numbers

Pulled live from GitHub. Quality > quantity, but the receipts are fun.

the last 12 months// mostly nights
lessmore
total commits
———
give or take a force-push
top language
TypeScript
71% of everything
public repos
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longest streak
——— days
before life happened
most active
Tuesdays, late.
abandoned repos
9
we don't talk about those
the work, by feel

Things that feel right.
Not just things that work.

07in motion

The 20ms that changes everything.

Most of the work is invisible. The easing curve, the few milliseconds of delay, the way a thing settles instead of stops. You never notice it, you just trust the interface a little more.

↳ the dot follows you. spring, not snap.
feel it
08currently

What right now sounds like.

Late night. Something good in the headphones, something half-finished in the editor. Both pulled live.

last playedlast.fm
Track title
Artist
recentlive
now codingwakatime
const focus = "this site";
const stack = ["-"];
0mtoday · live
Good software gets out of the way. You feel the result, never the machinery.
a thing I believe
09now
where

Lahti, Finland. Studying, freezing, shipping.

building

Enterprise client work, plus a few things not ready to show.

learning

Shaders, type, and how to say no to good-enough.

this site

Next.js, TypeScript, hand-rolled. Type set in Fira.

Got something worth building?

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