AldenGillespy.com v4.0
Version 4.0 turned this site into a full work platform: structured case studies, blog and admin infrastructure, service pages, SEO metadata, contact handling, Docker deployment, and branch-aware release operations in one maintainable system.
- Qwik
- TypeScript
- Fastify
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
Overview
Version 4.0 turned this site from a portfolio into a working platform for the whole practice. The release brings engineering case studies, production work, service packages, blog infrastructure, admin authoring, and deployment operations into one coherent system.
Problem Space
The site needed to explain two disciplines without splitting the audience or flattening the work into generic portfolio cards. It also needed to be maintainable after launch: content should be structured, metadata should be reliable, and deployment should be repeatable enough to support future releases.
Role and Scope
I handled product direction, information architecture, frontend implementation, content modeling, backend integration, release hardening, and deployment automation. The work combined design judgment with full-stack engineering so the public experience and operational layer supported the same positioning.
System Design Decisions
The site is organized around typed content modules, reusable route patterns, centralized SEO helpers, and discipline-specific design systems. Blog and admin flows use PostgreSQL-backed records, while static case study content remains versioned with the codebase for reviewable releases.
Implementation Complexity
The hardest part was keeping the site expressive without making it fragile. I had to balance rich editorial pages, responsive layout behavior, structured data, contact handling, image assets, Docker builds, and branch-aware deployment names without letting one concern leak across the rest of the system.
Why It Mattered
The release gives the practice a durable operating base: clients can understand the overlap between software and production, case studies can grow without redesigning the site, and releases can move through a predictable pipeline. It is both the work surface and an example of the engineering judgment behind the work.
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