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Jason Toups
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I build softwarethat earns its place on the roadmapbalance sheetteam

I’m Jason Toups -- a Senior Frontend Engineer with 20+ years shipping production systems across AI, fintech, and enterprise platforms.

I build things that last. My engineering philosophy is simple: craft over scale, calm systems over clever ones, and code that your future self will actually want to read.

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 complexity needs to be tamed, not added to. Here’s where I tend to make the biggest difference.

01 / COMPANY IMPACT

Company Impact

I build systems that outlast the sprint they were born in.
My work tends to reduce the long-term cost of a product — less rework, fewer brittle dependencies, more room to grow without rewriting.

Dfinity brought me in to train AI on frontend design and establish a design system for Caffeine AI, and the result was a rock-solid public demo and launch that’s easy to maintain.

That’s the pattern: I come in, I make things more stable, and the product is easier to build on top of when I'm done.

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02 / SOFTWARE PRODUCTION

Software 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.

03 / DEVELOPER SUPPORT

Developer Support

I pay attention to the things that slow a team down.

Developer Experience, Unclear patterns, missing documentation, tooling that nobody maintains, onboarding that assumes too much.

I fix those things — not as a side project, but as part of how I work.


Streamlining Developer Experience is craft that pays off.

Currently buildingLIVE - WK 2

Working with Penpot MCP on Redesigns

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  • Claude - Write Skill to read Penpot Boards and create Payload Components
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  • 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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