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.
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.
Book some time
30 minutes, no slide deck. Tell me your problem and I'll tell you whether 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 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.
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
Latest dispatch


Subscribe to the newsletter
Get updates in your inbox. No spam.
827 READERS · MONTHLY · UNSUBSCRIBE WHENEVER