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.
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.
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.
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.