// Software & Web · February 2026 – ongoing
Engineering Portfolio Website
The site you're reading: an engineering portfolio built as its own worked example rather than assembled from a template.
The Problem
A portfolio has to be memorable enough that someone remembers whose it was, and plain enough that it never gets in the way of the projects. Templates give up the first to guarantee the second.
The Approach
Built the visual language out of the subject matter instead of decorating a template: a Solari split-flap board that flips the name into place, a Göttingen 386 airfoil with skill labels riding animated streamlines, project cards drawn as breadboards with jumper-wire tags, all on a graph-paper ground. Next.js App Router with TypeScript and Tailwind, Framer Motion for entrance and scroll animation, and the airfoil rendered as plain SVG with its streamlines computed in JavaScript rather than dropping to canvas.
The Outcome
Live, and the front door for internship applications. It has since been through a correctness pass that mattered more than the visuals: project cards that only revealed their imagery and links on hover — invisible on a phone — now show both without hovering, unoptimised photographs that accounted for most of the page weight were routed through the image pipeline, and missing heading structure and reduced-motion support were added. Several project write-ups are still being written.