Design Engineer, Founder
Heartcore Studio · Tehachapi, CA · July 2021 - Present
- Build headless WordPress + Next.js marketing sites for luxury hospitality and real estate brands via Wicked+, an 8+ year agency partnership: Ascaya, Harland West Hollywood, Treasure Island SF. Own field architecture, component builds, GSAP motion, and deployment from static desktop-only Figma files.
- Model ACF schemas and flexible component libraries that let brand and content teams compose pages with guardrails; train content teams on the system.
- Built an AI-assisted schema pipeline with Claude Code: annotated Figma screenshot in, production ACF JSON and GraphQL out. Ships TypeScript/Next.js.
- Designed and built Palette Town, a headless Shopify art brand, end to end: custom admin panel, Claude API editorial pipeline, structured data. Migration results on matched 83-day windows: +32% clicks, +23% impressions, 1,100+ ranking queries at 99% non-branded, 169 countries, $0 ad spend.
- Lead web design for Uptempo marketing campaigns; most recent gated campaign converted at 15%.
Clients include: GoDaddy, Uptempo, FitOn, VidMob, Samesurf, The Famous Group