Personal build
ePortfolio 2026
This site is the public professional portfolio — a single place to review enterprise work, personal builds, experience, and contact. You are on it now.
- Role
- Solo developer
- Timeline
- 2026
- Stack
- HTML/CSS/JS, GitHub Pages
- Outcome
- Hiring-facing public site
The Problem
The prior portfolio was built around university robotics. Hiring conversations needed a different public site: one that presents digital-transformation work, keeps enterprise, personal, and academic material in separate places, and can be scanned in a short recruiter pass.
A CV alone does not show how a portal is structured or how an operations workflow was designed. The site had to carry case studies, experience, and a clear next step — download the CV or get in touch — without mixing client-sensitive detail into a public page.
Purpose and use
This site is the product. A visitor lands on Selected work, opens a case study, checks Experience and Skills, optionally asks the portfolio assistant, then downloads the CV or uses Contact.
- Information architecture: Work, Experience, Skills, About, Side projects, Academic, and Contact — each section has one job so a short visit still reaches the right page.
- Enterprise case studies: Architecture and outcomes without client-identifying detail; reusable detail-page template for problem, approach, and result.
- Side projects: Personal live builds (expense tracker, cycle health, this site, the portfolio assistant) with stack and architecture shared openly.
- Academic archive: University robotics work kept off the hiring homepage so it does not compete with current professional work.
Core stack: Semantic HTML5, CSS custom properties, vanilla ES6+ (scroll-spy, tabs, lightbox, page transitions), self-hosted Inter and Font Awesome, static files on GitHub Pages with a custom domain.
The Outcome
builtbyroger.com is a single hiring-facing presence: four enterprise case studies, live personal builds, an academic archive, an on-site assistant grounded in site content, and a CV download.
Recruiters can review a project, confirm the experience timeline, and reach out without leaving the site. The same templates are reused when a new case study or side project is added.
Personal project — full stack, architecture, and repository details shared openly.