HELLO —I'M A CREATIVEDEVELOPER
I design and engineer immersive web experiences where motion, 3D and product thinking meet.
- 8+
- Years experience
- 124
- Projects shipped
- 48
- Happy clients
- 32
- Technologies
Engineering that behaves like design.
Available for freelance & contract work — Q4 onward.
Aran Vega
Creative Developer
- Design-engineering hybrid — I ship the visuals and the architecture.
- 8 years across studios, startups and enterprise platforms.
- Obsessive about frame budgets, accessibility and typography.
I build the kind of web that makes people slow down. My work sits in the seam between art direction and systems engineering — bespoke WebGL scenes, motion grammars and interfaces that stay fast under real-world load.
Most engagements start with a hard product question and end with something that also happens to be beautiful. I care about the whole line: typography, token architecture, render cost, API shape, and the tiny transitions nobody notices until they're gone.
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Projects shipped
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Technologies
Tools I reach for without thinking.
Depth over breadth — but the breadth is there when a project needs it.
React
Next.js
TypeScript
JavaScript
Tailwind
Three.js
GSAP
Node.js
Express
GraphQL
REST API
MongoDB
MySQL
Python
PHP
WordPress
Docker
Linux
Git
Projects with real weight.
Four builds that shaped how I work. Hover a card for links, click for the full story.
How I can help.
Engagements from a two-week performance sprint to a full launch build.
Immersive Frontend
Design-engineered interfaces with motion systems, 3D scenes and 60 FPS budgets baked in.
01WebGL & 3D
Custom shaders, product configurators and scroll-driven scenes built on React Three Fiber.
02Product Engineering
APIs, data models and infra for products that need to hold up after launch day.
03Design Systems
Token architecture, component libraries and documentation your team actually uses.
04Performance Audits
Core Web Vitals, render profiling and GPU cost analysis with a prioritised fix plan.
05Creative Direction
Art direction and interaction concepts for launches that need to feel like an event.
06A decade of shipping.
Lead Creative Developer
2023 — PresentNebula Studio
- Lead engineer on award-nominated launch sites for hardware and fintech clients.
- Built the studio's reusable WebGL scene kit, cutting project setup from weeks to days.
Senior Frontend Engineer
2021 — 2023Vertex Labs
- Owned the design system powering 9 product surfaces and 40+ engineers.
- Drove an LCP improvement from 4.1s to 1.2s across the marketing platform.
Full-Stack Developer
2019 — 2021Northwind Digital
- Shipped 30+ client platforms across commerce, media and SaaS.
- Introduced CI, typed APIs and preview environments to a legacy PHP stack.
Freelance Developer
2018 — 2019Independent
- Built WordPress and custom PHP sites for studios and agencies.
- Learned to translate rough art direction into shippable interfaces.
What collaborators say.
“Aran turned a vague moodboard into the most talked-about launch page we've ever shipped. The motion detail is absurd.”
Mira Okonkwo
Head of Brand, Halo Robotics
“Rare combination: genuinely creative and genuinely rigorous. Our WebGL scene ships at 60 FPS on a five-year-old laptop.”
Daniel Reyes
CTO, Vertex Labs
“He rebuilt our storefront in six weeks and conversion went up 31%. He also left us documentation we still use.”
Sofia Lindqvist
Founder, Lumen
“The performance audit paid for itself in a month. Clear, prioritised, no hand-waving.”
Yusuf Demir
VP Engineering, Orbit
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Let's build something unreasonable.
Tell me about the project. I reply to every serious enquiry within 24 hours.
Currently booking
Available for freelance & contract work — Q4 onward.
- hello@aranvega.dev
- Lisbon · Remote worldwide