Hi, I'm Dan! AKA Dragon Dev

I’m a full-stack developer and graphic designer with a passion for front-end development and UX/UI design.

What can I do?

My philosophy is to build websites and web applications that not only captivate users with their design but also deliver fast, efficient, and optimized performance for the best user experience.

I'll work closely with you to ensure every detail is tailored to your vision, helping you build the website or web app of your dreams

—exactly how you envision it.

Design

Design is the cornerstone of every project I undertake. I ensure that both the functionality and aesthetic aspects of the design come together seamlessly to enhance the user experience.

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UI Design
I focus on delivering a seamless user experience (UX) by ensuring clean navigation, quick load times, and overall usability.
Aesthetic Design
Your site will have a striking visual design with:
- Carefully chosen color schemes and gradients
- Smooth animations and transitions for engaging interactivity
- Unique, custom-designed icons and images to elevate your branding
Custom-Made Graphics
I create tailored graphics, including icons, images, and illustrations, using tools like:
- Illustrator, Photoshop, and Figma for creating high-quality custom SVGs and PNGs
- AI-generated images for creative and dynamic visual elements
- AI-generated resources like presentations to speed up design processes
Functional Design
I create intuitive, usable designs that ensure easy navigation and clear calls-to-action.
Content-Based Design
I align the design with your content, ensuring that your message is supported by the visual structure, making information easy to intake.
Responsiveness
Every site I create is mobile-friendly, using:
- Media and container queries
- Min and max values for scalable elements
- Clamping to ensure text readability
- Flexbox and Grid for fluid layouts
- Absolute and relative values for adaptable designs
UI Design
I focus on delivering a seamless user experience (UX) by ensuring clean navigation, quick load times, and overall usability.
Aesthetic Design
Your site will have a striking visual design with:
- Carefully chosen color schemes and gradients
- Smooth animations and transitions for engaging interactivity
- Unique, custom-designed icons and images to elevate your branding
Custom-Made Graphics
I create tailored graphics, including icons, images, and illustrations, using tools like:
- Illustrator, Photoshop, and Figma for creating high-quality custom SVGs and PNGs
- AI-generated images for creative and dynamic visual elements
- AI-generated resources like presentations to speed up design processes
Functional Design
I create intuitive, usable designs that ensure easy navigation and clear calls-to-action.
Content-Based Design
I align the design with your content, ensuring that your message is supported by the visual structure, making information easy to intake.
Responsiveness
Every site I create is mobile-friendly, using:
- Media and container queries
- Min and max values for scalable elements
- Clamping to ensure text readability
- Flexbox and Grid for fluid layouts
- Absolute and relative values for adaptable designs

Development

Efficient development is key to building high-performance websites and applications. I focus on delivering cutting-edge functionality, performance, and maintainable code to ensure the success of your project.

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Performance-Focused Development
I focus on optimizing the user experience by ensuring fast load times, seamless interaction, and compatibility across devices and networks
- Lightning-fast load times through media optimization, lazy loading, and performance testing
- Network testing to ensure the site works flawlessly on various networks and devices, optimizing the browsing experience for all users
- Server-side rendering (SSR) for fast load times
Clear Project Management
I streamline development processes by maintaining clean code, thorough documentation, and efficient collaboration to ensure long-term scalability and smooth project execution
- Project outlines to set clear goals, timelines, and milestones, ensuring the project stays on track.
- Clean, organized code that's easy to understand, maintain, and scale.
- Detailed comments to make the code easier to follow and enhance collaboration.
- AGILE, Waterfall, and DevOps CI/CD methods to efficiently plan and execute the development process.
Efficiency-Focused Development
I utilize multiple resources within my development environment to build projects as quickly as possible
- Use of code snippets and Emmet to speed up development and reduce typos by automating repetitive code generation.
- AI and debugging tools to automate tasks, generate assets, and quickly identify and fix issues, ensuring smooth, bug-free development.
- Unit testing to ensure code reliability and minimize bugs.
- Logging, project descriptions, and README files for transparency, performance tracking, and clear documentation.
Functionality
I integrate modern features to enhance the user experience
- Lazy loading for fast page loading
- Skeleton screens for smooth loading transitions
- Custom error and loading animations to improve site interactivity
My Own UX Library
I’ve developed a personalized UX library filled with pre-built UI elements, ensuring consistency in design and a seamless user experience across your site
- Buttons
- Forms
- Modals
- Accordions
- Drop-downs
- Pagination
- Slideshows and Carousels
- Tickers
- And many more UI elements to keep your interface functional and visually appealing
Proficient in Modern Tech
I use the latest technologies to create high-performance, scalable web applications
- React 19 for dynamic and efficient UIs
- Typescript for clean and maintainable code
- NextJS 15+ for server-rendered React applications
- CSS + SCSS for flexible and efficient styling
- JavaScript + ES6 for modular, modern code
SEO Optimization
I ensure your website is optimized for search engines and easily discoverable
- robots.txt to guide search engine bots
- Accurate alt tags for all images
- Semantic HTML tags to improve site structure and readability
- Clean URLs and file structure for efficient indexing
- Meta tags and titles to enhance click-through rates
Performance-Focused Development
I focus on optimizing the user experience by ensuring fast load times, seamless interaction, and compatibility across devices and networks
- Lightning-fast load times through media optimization, lazy loading, and performance testing
- Network testing to ensure the site works flawlessly on various networks and devices, optimizing the browsing experience for all users
- Server-side rendering (SSR) for fast load times
Clear Project Management
I streamline development processes by maintaining clean code, thorough documentation, and efficient collaboration to ensure long-term scalability and smooth project execution
- Project outlines to set clear goals, timelines, and milestones, ensuring the project stays on track.
- Clean, organized code that's easy to understand, maintain, and scale.
- Detailed comments to make the code easier to follow and enhance collaboration.
- AGILE, Waterfall, and DevOps CI/CD methods to efficiently plan and execute the development process.
Efficiency-Focused Development
I utilize multiple resources within my development environment to build projects as quickly as possible
- Use of code snippets and Emmet to speed up development and reduce typos by automating repetitive code generation.
- AI and debugging tools to automate tasks, generate assets, and quickly identify and fix issues, ensuring smooth, bug-free development.
- Unit testing to ensure code reliability and minimize bugs.
- Logging, project descriptions, and README files for transparency, performance tracking, and clear documentation.
Functionality
I integrate modern features to enhance the user experience
- Lazy loading for fast page loading
- Skeleton screens for smooth loading transitions
- Custom error and loading animations to improve site interactivity
My Own UX Library
I’ve developed a personalized UX library filled with pre-built UI elements, ensuring consistency in design and a seamless user experience across your site
- Buttons
- Forms
- Modals
- Accordions
- Drop-downs
- Pagination
- Slideshows and Carousels
- Tickers
- And many more UI elements to keep your interface functional and visually appealing
Proficient in Modern Tech
I use the latest technologies to create high-performance, scalable web applications
- React 19 for dynamic and efficient UIs
- Typescript for clean and maintainable code
- NextJS 15+ for server-rendered React applications
- CSS + SCSS for flexible and efficient styling
- JavaScript + ES6 for modular, modern code
SEO Optimization
I ensure your website is optimized for search engines and easily discoverable
- robots.txt to guide search engine bots
- Accurate alt tags for all images
- Semantic HTML tags to improve site structure and readability
- Clean URLs and file structure for efficient indexing
- Meta tags and titles to enhance click-through rates

Soft Skills

In addition to my technical expertise, I focus on cultivating essential soft skills that ensure smooth collaboration and effective project execution.

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Great Communication
Strong communication skills for collaborating with clients and team members, ensuring that all requirements and expectations are clearly understood.
Leadership & Planning
Capable of organizing and leading projects, with an eye for planning and goal-setting to keep everything on track and ensure successful outcomes.
Easy-going & Team Player
I value creating a positive work environment and enjoy working with others to achieve shared goals.
Efficiency & Organization
Always striving to work in the most organized and efficient manner to ensure smooth project delivery.
Quick Learner
Continuously exploring new libraries and tools to improve my skills and stay up to date with industry trends. As you look through my projects, you’ll see how I experiment with new technologies and evolve to write faster, more efficient, and readable code.
Improvement-Oriented
Constantly working to refine areas where I excel and improve in areas where I’m less experienced, ensuring I’m always advancing as a developer.
Great Communication
Strong communication skills for collaborating with clients and team members, ensuring that all requirements and expectations are clearly understood.
Leadership & Planning
Capable of organizing and leading projects, with an eye for planning and goal-setting to keep everything on track and ensure successful outcomes.
Easy-going & Team Player
I value creating a positive work environment and enjoy working with others to achieve shared goals.
Efficiency & Organization
Always striving to work in the most organized and efficient manner to ensure smooth project delivery.
Quick Learner
Continuously exploring new libraries and tools to improve my skills and stay up to date with industry trends. As you look through my projects, you’ll see how I experiment with new technologies and evolve to write faster, more efficient, and readable code.
Improvement-Oriented
Constantly working to refine areas where I excel and improve in areas where I’m less experienced, ensuring I’m always advancing as a developer.

Technologies

These are the various technologies I've worked with and use in my web development projects. Below, you'll find a breakdown of the tools and tech I am proficient with, as well as those I am familiar with.

Languages I Know Well
These are the programming languages I have extensive experience with and feel confident using for various tasks.
HTML
1991
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard language used for creating and structuring content on the web. It defines the structure of web pages using a series of elements or tags.
Creating the structure of web pages
Marking up text content
Embedding media
CSS
1996
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used to describe the presentation of web pages, including the layout, colors, and fonts. It enhances the appearance and style of HTML elements.
Styling web pages
Designing responsive layouts
Defining visual elements like colors and fonts
JavaScript
1995
JavaScript is a high-level programming language used to create dynamic and interactive effects on web pages. It is widely used for web development and enables client-side scripting.
Adding interactivity to websites
Client-side scripting
Manipulating the DOM
ES6
2015
ECMAScript 6 (ES6) is the sixth edition of the ECMAScript standard, introducing new features to JavaScript, such as arrow functions, template literals, and destructuring assignments.
Modernizing JavaScript syntax
Enhancing features like classes, modules, and promises
Improving code readability and maintainability
Typescript
2012
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds optional static typing and other features to enhance development efficiency, such as better tooling support and refactoring capabilities.
Adding static typing to JavaScript
Building large-scale applications
Enhancing code quality with type-checking
Java
1995
Java is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language used for creating applications that run on various platforms. It is known for its portability, stability, and scalability.
Building cross-platform applications
Enterprise software development
Creating mobile applications (via Android)
Python
1991
Python is a versatile and high-level programming language known for its simplicity and readability. It is used in various fields such as web development, data science, automation, and artificial intelligence.
Web development
Data analysis and machine learning
Scripting and automation
Languages I've Used Before
I've worked with these languages in the past but my understanding is more basic when compared to the above.
SQL
1974
SQL (Structured Query Language) is used for managing and manipulating relational databases. It enables users to query, insert, update, and delete data from databases.
Managing databases
Querying and modifying data
Database administration
C
1972
C is a general-purpose programming language that provides low-level access to memory and is commonly used in system software development, embedded systems, and operating systems.
System programming
Building operating systems
Low-level memory management
C++
1983
C++ is an extension of the C language, supporting object-oriented programming principles such as classes and inheritance. It is widely used in applications that require high performance, such as game development and systems programming.
Object-oriented programming
Game development
Performance-critical applications
Lua
1993
Lua is a lightweight, high-level scripting language primarily used for embedded applications. It is often used in game development for scripting game behavior and logic.
Embedded scripting
Game development
Configuration scripting

Projects

Here, you'll find my side projects, consisting of various applications, tools, and creative coding projects, including demo sites and other coding experiments outside of web development.

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2025

Weather Dashboard

A weather dashboard that shows you the current forecast for any city you wish to look up, as well as the hourly and weekly forecasts.

Utilizes multiple APIs to gather and display detailed weather data and an image background for the selected city, tailored to the current day and time
Dynamic background based on both the weather as well as time of day for that particular city
Displays data using intuitive diagrams, icons, and graphs

HTMLCSSJSTSRestAPIReactNextJSExpressJSNodeJSSASSVSCodeAWS

Work

Take a look at my past and ongoing projects to see how I approach design, functionality, and user experience. Each project is a testament to my commitment to creating high-quality, user-friendly websites that not only look great but also perform flawlessly.

May 2024 - Present
Lead Developer
The Solutioners
A professional website for The Solutioners, a Canadian cybersecurity and IT solutions company. They offer a wide range of services, including SOC services, risk assessment, penetration testing and many other IT security solutions.
- Served as the solo developer for the company website, handling all aspects of the development process.
- Designed the overall structure and layout of the website, ensuring a user-friendly, visually appealing experience, and implemented responsive design for seamless viewing on all devices.
- Developed and implemented the theme for the website, reflecting the company’s brand identity.
- Provided all necessary assets, including images, videos, and other media for the site.
- Created AI-generated videos using Synthesia.io, enhancing the content presentation.
- Designed custom icons and graphics tailored to the website’s theme and purpose.
- Wrote a significant portion of the website’s content, including text, descriptions, and service details.
- Successfully deployed the website onto Ionos, ensuring proper functionality and performance.
HTMLCSSJSTSReactNextJSSASSGit/GithubSynthesia.ioIonosPleskAdobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorVSCodeVercel

Blog

Welcome to my blog, where I share insights, tips, and tutorials on web development, design, and technology. I write about my experiences, the challenges I’ve faced, and the tools I use to create better websites and apps.

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A SIMPLE GUIDE TO RESPONSIVE CSS
A Simple Guide to Responsive CSS
A beginners guide to grasping the fundamentals of responsive CSS
A SIMPLE GUIDE TO REACT HOOKS
A Simple Guide to React Hooks
A beginners guide to understanding the principles of react hooks, as well as how to implement the 7 main ones
A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO SANITY.IO AND SANITY STUDIO
A Beginners Guide to Sanity.io and Sanity Studio
An overview of the basics of Sanity IO and Sanity Studio
THE BASICS OF GIT AND GITHUB
The Basics of Git and Github
The basics of using Git and GitHub in order to manage project version control
ASYNCHRONOUS JAVASCRIPT DEMYSTIFIED
Asynchronous Javascript Demystified
Explaining the basics of asynchronous programming in Javascript
A SIMPLE GUIDE TO RESPONSIVE CSS
A Simple Guide to Responsive CSS
A beginners guide to grasping the fundamentals of responsive CSS
A SIMPLE GUIDE TO REACT HOOKS
A Simple Guide to React Hooks
A beginners guide to understanding the principles of react hooks, as well as how to implement the 7 main ones
A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO SANITY.IO AND SANITY STUDIO
A Beginners Guide to Sanity.io and Sanity Studio
An overview of the basics of Sanity IO and Sanity Studio
THE BASICS OF GIT AND GITHUB
The Basics of Git and Github
The basics of using Git and GitHub in order to manage project version control
ASYNCHRONOUS JAVASCRIPT DEMYSTIFIED
Asynchronous Javascript Demystified
Explaining the basics of asynchronous programming in Javascript

Get In Touch

I'm always open to discussing new projects, collaborations, or answering any questions you may have. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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What can I do?

My philosophy is to build websites and web applications that not only captivate users with their design but also deliver fast, efficient, and optimized performance for the best user experience.

I'll work closely with you to ensure every detail is tailored to your vision, helping you build the website or web app of your dreams

—exactly how you envision it.

Design

Design is the cornerstone of every project I undertake. I ensure that both the functionality and aesthetic aspects of the design come together seamlessly to enhance the user experience.

UI Design

I focus on delivering a seamless user experience (UX) by ensuring clean navigation, quick load times, and overall usability.

Aesthetic Design

Your site will have a striking visual design with:

Custom-Made Graphics

I create tailored graphics, including icons, images, and illustrations, using tools like:

Functional Design

I create intuitive, usable designs that ensure easy navigation and clear calls-to-action.

Content-Based Design

I align the design with your content, ensuring that your message is supported by the visual structure, making information easy to intake.

Responsiveness

Every site I create is mobile-friendly, using:

UI Design

I focus on delivering a seamless user experience (UX) by ensuring clean navigation, quick load times, and overall usability.

Aesthetic Design

Your site will have a striking visual design with:

Custom-Made Graphics

I create tailored graphics, including icons, images, and illustrations, using tools like:

Functional Design

I create intuitive, usable designs that ensure easy navigation and clear calls-to-action.

Content-Based Design

I align the design with your content, ensuring that your message is supported by the visual structure, making information easy to intake.

Responsiveness

Every site I create is mobile-friendly, using:

Development

Efficient development is key to building high-performance websites and applications. I focus on delivering cutting-edge functionality, performance, and maintainable code to ensure the success of your project.

Performance-Focused Development

I focus on optimizing the user experience by ensuring fast load times, seamless interaction, and compatibility across devices and networks

Clear Project Management

I streamline development processes by maintaining clean code, thorough documentation, and efficient collaboration to ensure long-term scalability and smooth project execution

Efficiency-Focused Development

I utilize multiple resources within my development environment to build projects as quickly as possible

Functionality

I integrate modern features to enhance the user experience

My Own UX Library

I’ve developed a personalized UX library filled with pre-built UI elements, ensuring consistency in design and a seamless user experience across your site

Proficient in Modern Tech

I use the latest technologies to create high-performance, scalable web applications

SEO Optimization

I ensure your website is optimized for search engines and easily discoverable

Performance-Focused Development

I focus on optimizing the user experience by ensuring fast load times, seamless interaction, and compatibility across devices and networks

Clear Project Management

I streamline development processes by maintaining clean code, thorough documentation, and efficient collaboration to ensure long-term scalability and smooth project execution

Efficiency-Focused Development

I utilize multiple resources within my development environment to build projects as quickly as possible

Functionality

I integrate modern features to enhance the user experience

My Own UX Library

I’ve developed a personalized UX library filled with pre-built UI elements, ensuring consistency in design and a seamless user experience across your site

Proficient in Modern Tech

I use the latest technologies to create high-performance, scalable web applications

SEO Optimization

I ensure your website is optimized for search engines and easily discoverable

Soft Skills

In addition to my technical expertise, I focus on cultivating essential soft skills that ensure smooth collaboration and effective project execution.

Great Communication

Strong communication skills for collaborating with clients and team members, ensuring that all requirements and expectations are clearly understood.

Leadership & Planning

Capable of organizing and leading projects, with an eye for planning and goal-setting to keep everything on track and ensure successful outcomes.

Easy-going & Team Player

I value creating a positive work environment and enjoy working with others to achieve shared goals.

Efficiency & Organization

Always striving to work in the most organized and efficient manner to ensure smooth project delivery.

Quick Learner

Continuously exploring new libraries and tools to improve my skills and stay up to date with industry trends. As you look through my projects, you’ll see how I experiment with new technologies and evolve to write faster, more efficient, and readable code.