I'm a frontend engineer in Osaka shipping fast, accessible web apps for real people โ currently building tools that help an international school run smoother.
Matthew South
Frontend Engineer
Real-world impact
ยฅ30,000/month
saved in running costs
60 hrs/cycle
of manual reporting eliminated
I started by solving problems in front of me at work โ an international school that needed better software โ and turned that into a craft I care about deeply.
I like interfaces that are quick, obvious, and genuinely useful. Give me a real problem and I'll ship a clean, well-built solution for it.
ship it
Real products over pixel-perfect demos
clarity
Simple UI beats clever UI
keep learning
Always leveling up the stack
I built a secure React form that lets parents apply online. On submission, an Apps Script pipeline writes each entry into a contract document automatically โ copying a master template, filling the mapped fields, and generating a named file for staff.
Teachers needed a way to track each child's progress โ both for their own teaching and for parent interviews. I'm building a clean dashboard that gives them a fast, structured way to log and review student progress.
A React app for searching and browsing anime through a public API โ really a way to get the async data layer right. I worked through debounced search, caching responses to avoid refetching, and cancelling in-flight requests so out-of-order responses can't overwrite fresher results.
Products I designed and shipped for my workplace, directing Claude Code for implementation.
Each student receives ยฅ20,000/year for books, and there was no reliable way to track spending against it โ my earlier spreadsheet couldn't handle adding students or books cleanly. This replaced that: per-group balances, negative-balance flagging, book distribution tracking, and rollover. The school uses it to manage book inventory and student balances daily.
Designed by me, built with Claude Code.
Hoshida International
Sole developer for the school's web tools, owning each product end to end โ frontend, backend, data model, and deploy. I designed and shipped a secure parent-application platform (React + Google Services) and am building a student-progress dashboard, working solo across the full stack with React, TypeScript, Tailwind and Supabase.
Open to frontend engineering roles and freelance builds. Drop a line โ I reply fast.