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title: Isaac Solomon — Developer & Photographer
source: https://isaacsolomon.dev/
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# Developer.

Hi, I'm Isaac Solomon. I build clean, fast things for the web — and photograph the world in between deploys.

✱ ( the short version )

module 01

fast.

Performance is part of the design, not the cleanup after.

make it *fast.*

make it *last.*

make it feel *handmade.*

module 02

lasting

module 03

made with intent

handmade.

✱ ( 01 — About Me )

![Isaac Solomon smiling, wearing a dark green shirt, greenery behind him](https://isaacsolomon.dev/isaac.webp)

Nine years turning designs into products — *not prototypes, not demos. Products.*

I'm a frontend developer at Able.do, where I've led the build on everything from India's largest audio brand storefront to a national talent platform that screens students across eleven languages. I write the kind of code that ships on Tuesday and still works on Friday — component systems flexible enough for non-technical teams to manage, e-commerce flows that handle real traffic, and scroll-driven animations that don't tank a Lighthouse score.

The work I'm proudest of sits at the intersection of craft and constraint: a CMS rebuilt twice to survive a corporate rebrand, an animation-heavy site pivoted from image sequences to video mid-build, a campaign site the client loved but never launched. Every project teaches you something — usually that the brief was wrong.

Lately the work has widened. A subscription-meals admin platform taken fully mobile-responsive, then a sideways move into QA — web, iOS and Android smoke lanes for a community platform, the automation programme that runs them, and the engine underneath it in TypeScript. I write too: the draft of a technical white paper on governed human–agent work, and this site, which is an MCP server as much as a portfolio.

When I'm not shipping code I'm somewhere in the mountains with a camera, chasing light and trying not to overthink the composition.

Brands I've shipped for

- Mivi ·

- Godrej Foundation ·

- Keus ·

- Vibrant Living ·

- WOW Club ·

- Nova Rock ·

- SAUT ·

- Tomorrow Makers ·

- Mivi ·

- Godrej Foundation ·

- Keus ·

- Vibrant Living ·

- WOW Club ·

- Nova Rock ·

- SAUT ·

- Tomorrow Makers ·

✱ ( 02 — Services )

## what I do, *end to end.*

chapter 01

### E-commerce storefronts

Fast, componentised storefronts built to survive real traffic and relentless launch schedules.

chapter 02

### Custom CMS builds

Component systems flexible enough for non-technical teams to run without touching code.

chapter 03

### Scroll-driven animation

Scroll choreography that stays smooth on mid-range phones — GSAP, view transitions, video scrubbing.

chapter 04

### QA automation

Smoke lanes that run themselves on request, and leave behind a report someone can actually act on.

chapter 05

### Long-term product work

Years-long partnerships — from first commit to product management, across rewrites and rebrands.

- 01 E-commerce storefronts Fast, componentised storefronts built to survive real traffic and relentless launch schedules. — Product & category pages— Live carts and checkout flows— Transactional mailers— Performance budgets that hold

- 02 Custom CMS builds Component systems flexible enough for non-technical teams to run without touching code. — Content modelling— Editor-friendly component systems— Design-system enforcement— Rebrand-proof architecture

- 03 Scroll-driven animation Scroll choreography that stays smooth on mid-range phones — GSAP, view transitions, video scrubbing. — GSAP & ScrollTrigger— Video pause-and-play pipelines— View-transition morphs— Reduced-motion fallbacks

- 04 QA automation Smoke lanes that run themselves on request, and leave behind a report someone can actually act on. — Web, iOS simulator and Android emulator lanes— Flake isolation and retry policy— Finding dedupe and regression tracking— Reports with triage-ready evidence

- 05 Long-term product work Years-long partnerships — from first commit to product management, across rewrites and rebrands. — Frontend leadership— Framework migrations— i18n / RTL support— Product management

✱ ( 03 — Selected Work )

## selected work.

Client builds and side projects. Each one pushed the work further than the brief required.

![Mivi screenshot](https://isaacsolomon.dev/projects/mivi-desktop.webp)

### Mivi

India's first audio manufacturing tech brand needed a storefront that moved as fast as their products. I built the entire UI on a custom in-house CMS — componentised from the ground up, with a live cart, transactional mailers and dynamic product pages that the team could manage without touching code.

![SAUT screenshot](https://isaacsolomon.dev/projects/saut/landing-hero-devices-right-to-left.webp)

### SAUT

Four years building a Learning Management System for special educators teaching children with Down syndrome — from Vue.js to SvelteKit, from solo frontend dev to product manager. Bilingual Arabic/English with a live RTL toggle, offline-first assessments, and a drag-and-drop worksheet builder that prints pixel-perfect A4.

![Godrej Foundation screenshot](https://isaacsolomon.dev/writing/godrej/hero.webp)

### Godrej Foundation

Website and custom CMS for India's oldest philanthropic trust. SvelteKit + Tailwind, built twice — once before and once after Godrej's full corporate rebrand.

![Tomorrow Makers screenshot](https://isaacsolomon.dev/writing/tomorrow-makers/hero.webp)

### Tomorrow Makers

National talent platform for Godrej Foundation — identifies and supports high-potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds across four pathways. SvelteKit on Cloudflare, with WhatsApp onboarding and 11-language assessment support.

- [2024 Keus Smart Home Case study](https://isaacsolomon.dev/writing/keus)

- [2024 Vibrant Living Brand & Commerce Visit](https://vibrantliving.in)

- [2023 AAP Political Web Visit](https://github.com/Isaacsol211)

✱ ( 04 — Experience )

## A yearly snapshot of my creative growth

- 2026 — Now Independent Developer @ Freelance (Part-time) Side projects and freelance work alongside the day job — bilingual B2B sites, static builds on Cloudflare, and the odd experiment that never ships.

- 2017 — Now Frontend Developer @ Able.do Nine years building and shipping client products — e-commerce platforms, custom CMS systems, component libraries and design systems. Led the frontend for Mivi, Vibrant Living and a dozen other builds from first commit to production. Since mid-2026 the work has widened into QA automation, governed delivery and technical writing.

- 2016 — 2017 Developer (Intern) @ Uncommon Learned the craft the honest way — code reviews, broken builds and very patient mentors. Left the internship knowing why things work, not just that they do.

✱ ( 05 — Writing )

The case studies live with each project above. These are the essays and deep dives that came out of them.

- [Essay · SAUT — 7 min Wearing Three Hats — Frontend Dev, PM, Designer → How four years on one product turned a frontend developer into a product manager and emergency UI designer — and why each hat made the others better.](https://isaacsolomon.dev/writing/saut/three-hats)

- [Deep Dive · SAUT — 6 min The Worksheet Builder — A Design Tool Inside an LMS → A drag-and-drop canvas for special educators to build pixel-perfect printable A4 worksheets — flashcards, shapes and multiple artboards, in a browser.](https://isaacsolomon.dev/writing/saut/worksheet-builder)

✱ ( 06 — Proof of Work )

Proof from the work.

## when the brief moves, the work still holds.

Not a wall of polished review cards. The recurring signal from messy builds: pace, clarity and care after launch.

- 01 pressure launches / day

- 02 clarity languages

- 03 aftercare not handoff

> Isaac is the developer you hand the impossible deadline to. He asks the right questions on day one, pushes back where it matters, and then quietly ships something better than the brief.

Collaborator signal Project Manager, Able.do builds that keep moving when calendars, catalogues and launch plans change

> We came with four words and no designs. Isaac turned that into a bilingual site our customers actually use — and explained every decision along the way in language we could follow.

Collaborator signal Founder, Nova Rock interfaces explained clearly enough for real teams and real edge cases

> What stands out is the care after launch. Nothing was thrown over the wall — he stayed with the product, tuned the details, and left us with a system our own team can run.

Collaborator signal Client, 3 Sided Coin systems documented and tuned after the launch-day applause fades