Developer Portfolio — Next.js, SEO-First Build
A custom developer portfolio built in Next.js with SEO, performance and accessibility treated as first-class features rather than afterthoughts.
This is a developer portfolio I built in Next.js with the full set of modern Next.js capabilities engineered into the foundation rather than bolted on at the end. The brief was simple — a portfolio that loads instantly, ranks for the developer's name and skills, looks distinctive without being noisy, and stays easy to update as new projects ship.
Architecturally, the site is built on the Next.js App Router with route-level metadata, dynamic Open Graph images, an XML sitemap, robots configuration and JSON-LD structured data for the Person and Project schemas. Every page sets its own title, description, canonical URL and social card, so a link shared on LinkedIn or X looks deliberate instead of accidental. Core Web Vitals — LCP, CLS, INP — were tuned end-to-end: next/image with proper sizing and priority hints, font preloading with next/font, edge caching where it matters, and route segments that stream rather than block.
Beyond performance and SEO, the site is built to last. Project content is kept in a structured source so adding a new case study takes minutes, not hours. Theming is wired through CSS variables so a dark/light toggle is honest rather than cosmetic. Accessibility was treated as a constraint from day one — keyboard navigation, focus rings, semantic landmarks, reduced-motion handling — because a portfolio that fails an accessibility audit is a portfolio that quietly loses opportunities.
The result is a site that does the things a portfolio is actually supposed to do: load in under a second, get found on Google, hold a recruiter's attention for longer than three seconds, and make the next project trivially easy to add.
