PORTFOLIO SITE

Why this site exists

I needed a portfolio that sounded like me instead of a template, and I needed an excuse to ship something real in Next.js 16 while I was job-hunting. So the site is the resume and the work sample — every page you click on is also a thing I'm claiming I can build.

How it's put together

It's a Next.js 16 App Router app on React 19, written in strict TypeScript and styled with Tailwind v4. Almost everything is a Server Component; the only client-side JavaScript is the contact form and the theme toggle. Cache Components is turned on, so most routes render at build time and the bundle that ships to the browser is tiny.

Content is split on purpose. Structured data — the resume, the project index — lives in plain JSON files under data/. The long-form writeups for each project are MDX under content/projects/. The JSON is the source of truth: zod validates it at load time, so a malformed entry fails the build instead of rendering a broken page. Keeping the resume as JSON also means I can feed it to other tools later (a cover-letter generator, an ATS-friendly export) without scraping my own site.

The contact form is a React Hook Form client component that posts to a Server Action. The action re-validates the payload with the same zod schema, checks a honeypot field and a minimum time-on-page, then hands the message to Resend. No database, no queue, no third-party form service.

The interesting bits

The Advection-Diffusion project on this site embeds a WebAssembly module compiled from C++ (converted from Fortran!). Next.js's bundler and .wasm files have a difficult relationship — Turbopack wants to resolve them statically at build time, and the runtime fetch path was fighting the static analysis. The fix was to stop shipping a separate .wasm file at all: the binary is now base64-inlined into a single adv-diff.js glue module, so there's nothing for the bundler to chase and nothing for the browser to fetch on a second request.

The whole thing is hosted on Vercel's free tier and targets $0/month.