vixenz.dev

ABOUT

Junior developer. Accessibility-first. Neurospicy. I build for everyone — because I think differently too.

I think in patterns and pictures, so most of my projects start with design docs broken into phases — usually with a Mermaid diagram or flow chart. Accessibility isn't a separate practice; it's the brief, because building for how I read tends to mean building better for how everyone reads.

What I work with

Frontend
React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Astro, CSS, semantic HTML, WCAG 2.2, W3C APG patterns
Backend
Express, REST APIs, Integration testing
Databases
SQL (SQLite, Postgres via Supabase), schema design, Knex migrations + seeds, indexing strategies
Tooling
Vite, Vitest, Playwright, axe-core, Git, Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Anthropic / OpenAI APIs (used in my Dev Academy ai-chatbot project)
Practice
TDD where it helps, scaffold-first learning, design-doc-driven work, accessibility audits. Currently learning: AI agent + worker patterns for the Learning Companion Project.

How I work

I roadmap projects into design docs, flow charts, and diagrams broken into phases — each phase ships something deployable, and I work small pieces at a time. Clean code matters to me; readability and accessibility live at the top of my philosophy. I find code difficult to read myself, so making it easier for me to read tends to mean making the finished result easier for everyone who ends up using what I build.

I match the tool to the shape of the work: Astro for content-shaped sites because it gets out of my way, Next.js when there's real client-side state, Express + Knex when I want to wire the relational layer by hand.

What I am looking for

Junior or graduate developer, Auckland-based, open to remote. Looking for a team where accessibility is the default not the add-on, documentation is part of the work, and there's room to learn the parts of the stack I haven't lived in yet. I'm applying through Summer of Tech 2026/27.

Email [email protected] or grab my CV.