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SENIOR FRONT END DEV.·FRONTEND FROM SCRATCH·2025 - Present

Mini Studio

SENIOR FRONT END DEV.

Owned the 0-to-1 frontend for an AI cartoon generation platform. Shipped MVP in 14 days.

Remote, New York, AI, From Scratch

Mini Studio

THE STACK

NextJSReactTailwindTurboRepoVercelClerkApollo GraphQL

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CASE STUDY

Building an AI Cartoon Platform Frontend from Zero

The Problem

Mini Studio's CTO had built the backend for an AI cartoon generation platform — users upload a photo, generate stylized characters in styles like anime, cartoon, or claymation, compose scenes with multiple characters, animate them, and swap their own characters into pre-built stories. The problem: he could be on the back and front all the time. They needed a senior engineer to own the entirely new iteration of the frontend from zero.

What I Did

  • Shipped the full MVP frontend to production in 14 days — from empty repo to live product.
  • Made all frontend architecture decisions: project structure (Next.js + DDD), monorepo setup (TurboRepo), component architecture, authentication (Clerk).
  • Built the complete user flow: photo upload, character generation with style selection, scene composition, animation, and character integration into existing stories.
  • Conducted a frontend performance audit after launch, identified rendering bottlenecks, and implemented fixes.

The Result

  • 14 days from empty repo to production MVP.
  • Frontend architecture running cleanly, enabling the team to iterate on features without structural debt.

Key Decision

We started with React 19 and migrated to React 19.2 when Next.js released version 16 with full support. The React compiler eliminated the need for manual memoization across the app, which kept the codebase clean and performant.

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