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I’m Jason Toups -- a Web Developer with 20+ years shipping software across AI, fintech, and enterprise platforms.
I build things that last. My engineering philosophy is simple: prevent future work, and leave the codebase better than you found it.
I do my best work in environments that value intention over volume; and I bring that standard to everything I ship.
What I Deliver
I work best where slop needs to be tamed, not added to. Here’s where I tend to make the biggest difference.
Company Impact
I build systems that outlast the sprint they were born in.
My work reduces the long-term cost of a product; less rework, fewer brittle dependencies, more room to grow without rewriting.
Dfinity hired me to train AI on frontend design and establish a design system for Caffeine AI. The result: a rock-solid public demo and launch.
That’s the pattern: I come in, stabilize the software, resulting in a product that is easier to update when I'm done.
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30 minutes, no slide deck. Tell me your problem and we'll see if I'm the right hire.
Open calendarSoftware Production
I work well across the full production team since I think in systems, not just code.
With designers, I investigate early when an interaction will create complexity downstream.
With product, I’m honest about tradeoffs and translating technical constraints into decisions.
With infrastructure, I leave deployments and environments cleaner than I found them.
Developer Experience
I prioritize solving the issues that slow a team down.
Unclear patterns, outdated onboarding, missing documentation, tooling that nobody maintains.
I fix those things — not as a side project, but crucial to how I work.
Streamlining Developer Experience is craft that supports the whole team.
Working with Penpot MCP on Redesigns
- Spin up Penpot Docker Container
- Penpot - Create Redesigns Page
- Connect to Penpot MCP Server
- Claude - Write Skill to read Penpot Boards and create Payload Components
- Claude - Write Skill that takes Payload Components, and updates Penpot Boards
- Penpot - Redesign Buttons, Cards, and Post Page
- Claude - Update Penpot Homepage Board
- Claude - Use Penpot Post Page redesign, and update our Payload Post Page
- Penpot - Design Posts Page
- Create Dummy Posts Data locally to develop Posts Page
- Engineer Posts Page
- Update Cards designs to match Penpot Components
- Penpot - Update Contact Page
- Penpot - Update Resume Page
- Write article about working with Penpot
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