Your gestures have three beats, constrain on start, track 1:1 on move, resolve on end, and stay contained: no stray text selection, no triggered neighbours, no pointer lost at the edge.

Choreography is second nature: the primary element answers instantly, secondary elements follow late, exits clear faster than entrances arrive, and a touch of blur hides the seams.

Your restraint scales with frequency and input: touch gets the most feedback, the pointer some, the keyboard almost none, and anything used a hundred times a day loses its animation.

Craft

You build without waiting: when a tool, component or prototype doesn't exist, you make it, and you've shipped things of your own that people use.

Code is your design material. You judge an idea by building and using it, prototype in the browser rather than in static frames, and polish only once the idea has earned it.

You iterate until nothing is left to explore, then have the discipline to choose the simple version from many iterations back.

Robustness is binary to you: you spam every state, scroll too fast, drag past every edge, and cut any detail that can't work every time.

You see at the pixel: optical alignment at high zoom, animations scrubbed frame by frame, and before-and-after captures on every change.

Native first: real scroll over hijacked wheel events, clip-path over animating width, CSS keyframes before reaching for a library.

You study the work you admire by rebuilding it, then make something unmistakably your own.

Engineering

• 5+ years shipping production front ends, with live work you can link to.
• React and TypeScript at expert level, with component APIs that don't lie: contextual props, derived state, variants over boolean flags and compound components.
• Motion values and direct DOM updates for anything high-frequency, so gestures and scroll never wait on a render.
• CSS in depth: clip-path, masks, backdrop filters, blend modes, scroll-driven animations, container queries and the View Transitions API.
• Type and pixels in code: variable fonts, optical sizing, OpenType features, and layouts free of shift and subpixel blur at 1×, 2× and 3×.
• Performance as a feature: an 8 ms frame budget at 120 Hz, compositor-only animation, and pages that load instantly because every byte was questioned.
• Accessibility as craft: focus rings styled rather than removed, focus moved into overlays and back, full keyboard paths and reduced-motion settings honoured.

3D and creative

• Real-time 3D with Three.js or React Three Fiber on WebGL or WebGPU.
• Shaders in GLSL or WGSL: noise, signed distance fields, glass, refraction, lighting and post-processing, all inside the frame budget.
• Motion studies in After Effects and 3D in Cinema 4D or Blender, so ideas move before a line of production code exists.
• Generative and data-driven work in Canvas and SVG, and interactive animation in Rive.

Building for AI

• Interfaces for streamed, non-deterministic output: progressive rendering, interruption and retry.
• You build daily with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, use them to ship whole tools and products on your own, and review every line they write.

Good to have

• Custom tools you built that others rely on: plugins, design and motion tooling, debug overlays, generators or internal apps.
• Something you started and shipped yourself: a product, a studio, a library or a side project with real users/customers.
• Writing and articles about your craft: essays, breakdowns or notes that show how you think.
• Creative coding or generative art.
• Open-source work in motion, graphics or UI components.
• Work directly with high-pedigree founders shaping technical and product strategy.
• Build infrastructure powering the future of AI compute globally.
• Significant ownership and impact with equity reflective of your contributions.
• Competitive compensation, flexible work options, and wellness benefits.