Christian Kamalu — websites for people and small businessesCHRISTIANKAMALU
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Websites for people & small businesses·Design through deploy
I design, build, and ship websites — hand-written, quick to load, and yours to own outright. Two client sites are live below, and the games further down are playable right on this page.
I build websites for people and small businesses — design through deploy, hand-written, no page-builder bloat. Behind that: 7+ years as a full-stack engineer in React, TypeScript, and Node.js, and an AI-first workflow that lets me learn a new business fast and ship fast without cutting the corners that matter — speed, accessibility, and a site you can actually keep updated.
You get one person, start to finish — the first sketch, the copy, the build, the domain, the forms that land in your inbox, and the handoff that leaves you able to change your own words. No agency layers, no template you’ll outgrow, no monthly rent on your own website.
And if it turns out you need more than a site — accounts, a database, a booking flow, an integration with something you already run — that’s the same job at a different size. Say so early and I’ll scope it.
Taking on website work — personal sites, small business, and rebuilds of sites that have aged out
Recently shipped: thetoddharris.com and buildingstrongwomen.com
Always: an LLM in the loop — it’s how this site got built, too
Client work
Sites I’ve built for other people.
Both are live right now — the green dot means deployed. Yours could be next.
Todd Harris
Sports commentator — full rebuild
Live
Rebuilt an Emmy-winning Olympic commentator’s site from scratch on Astro: a reel player that switches video host from one config line, a photo gallery he can refill himself, career credits that read in fifteen seconds, and a booking form straight to his inbox. Sitemap, metadata and IndexNow submission so the producers hiring him actually find it.
Marketing site and store for a community empowering women and girls — in sport and in life — built out from the brand identity they already had: palette, quote-card motif and pamphlet copy carried across intact. Newsletter, product-interest and contact forms wired up, and products flip from “Notify me” to “Buy” with one flag when checkout goes live.
Where the techniques come from. The dashed boxes are playable, right here on the page.
BLE Beacon Device
From bare metal to the App Store
In progress
Self-taught embedded C to build a Bluetooth Low Energy device end to end: firmware on a TI CC2340R5 MCU with a deep-sleep power model targeting 5+ year battery life, a SwiftUI iOS companion shipping to TestFlight via GitHub Actions, and a Kotlin Android client in progress.
Live-ish — advertising every 2.4s
CC2340
state: deep sleep → ADV
packets sent: 0
battery budget: 5+ years
NourishAI
AI meal planning, end to end
In progress
Full-stack AI app: a React Native/TypeScript client and Node.js + PostgreSQL backend with LLM-driven meal planning behind a provider-agnostic layer. Hybrid retrieval-and-ranking pipeline, evaluation and cost controls, photo → meal logging, and text → image meal previews.
What the planner serves
Salmon poke bowl
620 kcal · 42g protein · ready in 15m
planner pick
Bank
Push-your-luck dice, live with friends
Live
Real-time multiplayer dice game — PIN lobbies, anonymous auth, and optimistic Firestore writes so every roll lands on every screen instantly. Configurable bust rules, doubles, and anonymous banking. Try the pocket version here, then host a real game.
Playable — one turn of Bank
Pot: 0Banked: 0grace: 3 safe rolls left
Dice show 3 and 5. Pot 0, banked 0. 3 safe rolls left in the grace window.
Live lobbies, synchronized rounds with a shared board, word challenges, round review and scoring — all on a single Firestore document per game. There are words hiding in this very board: trace adjacent tiles to find one.
Playable — 25 words hide in this board
No tiles selected.Tap adjacent tiles — try S→H→I→P
Led architecture and delivery across a two-product startup effort (2020–2022): integrated Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR API to turn large external data flows into an analytical platform, and built a client-facing marketplace from the ground up. Both products have since been retired.
Experience
Where I’ve shipped.
Independent2026 — present
Freelance Web Designer & Developer
Design and build websites for people and small businesses end to end — first sketch, copy, build, domain, deploy, and a handoff that leaves the owner able to edit their own words.
Shipped thetoddharris.com, an Astro rebuild for an Emmy-winning Olympic commentator, and buildingstrongwomen.com, a brand site and storefront built out from an existing identity.
Delinea2022 — 2026
Software Engineer
Built and maintained the company’s shared React component library — reusable UI shipped across its full suite of applications, partnering with product teams to standardize patterns.
Used AI tooling to ramp on unfamiliar areas of a large codebase quickly — a habit that’s central to how I deliver.
Litiscape & TradeAngel2020 — 2022
Software Lead
Led a two-product engineering effort as technical lead, owning architecture and delivery in a fast-moving startup.
Integrated Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR API to turn large external data flows into an analytical platform, and built a client-facing marketplace from the ground up.
DentalQore2019 — 2020
Associate Engineer & Technical Support
Rebuilt hundreds of client dental websites, adapting quickly across a high volume of varied requests.
Worked directly with customers in 1-on-1 support, translating non-technical needs into shipped improvements.