JF

My Story

Built different.
Shipped as expected.

I'm Jamel.
A senior frontend engineer from Vancouver Canada with a decade of turning complex ideas into interfaces people actually want to use. It started with HTML in a browser's DevTools and a stubborn need to understand why things look the way they do. That curiosity never left.

Today I work at the intersection of design and engineering. I've partnered with product teams and founders to ship experiences that are fast, accessible, and impossible to forget. I care about the details most people skip: the easing curve, the focus state, the 12 pixels of breathing room that make a layout feel inevitable.

“It's the decisions you make, when you have no time to make them, that define who you are.”

— The Pwnerer
  • 2015

    Caught the bug

    Rebuilt a local soccer camp's website on a whim. Shipped it. Never looked back.

  • 2016

    Went deep on craft

    Kept building. Sought mentorship. Finished Bootcamps. Won Hackathons.

  • 2020

    Stepped out solo

    Left the architectural industry to build directly with founders who care about the product as much as I do.

10+

Years in the craft

50+

Products shipped

100%

Details obsessed over

My Journey

Where I've been.
Where I'm at.

  • 2015

    First Commit

    Self-taught

    HTML, CSS, vanilla JS. Rebuilt a restaurant site on a whim — and shipped it.

  • 2018

    Frontend Developer

    Agency

    React, Webpack, client work. Learned to ship fast without cutting corners.

  • 2020

    Senior Frontend Engineer

    enterprise SaaS

    Led architecture for a platform serving 10k+ daily users. Accessibility-first, performance-obsessed.

  • 2022

    System Design Engineer

    SaaS Startup

    Hired and mentored engineers. Shipped the full v2 redesign. Set the bar.

  • 2024Now

    Independent

    Freelance

    Building directly with founders. Full ownership of product, design, and delivery.

My Craft

Tools sharpened.
Work shipped.

Accessibility

WCAG AA compliant

Agentic Coding

AI-assisted dev

Animation

Framer Motion · GSAP

AWS

Cloud · S3 · Lambda

CSS / Tailwind

Pixel-perfect

Docker

Containerization · DevOps

Figma

Design to code

MongoDB

NoSQL · Atlas

React / Next.js

UI architecture

Redux

State management

SEO

Semantic · structured

Supabase

Backend as a Service

TanStack

Query · Table · Router

TypeScript

Types over trust

Vercel

Deployment · Hosting

Get in touch

Worked with

  • Alcon
  • Roadmunk
  • Tempo
  • Balloon Box
  • CompSci