Teams of teams
Squads is a global network of full-stack development teams that companies hire as a unit instead of assembling specialists one by one. The site had to explain that to three different readers (startups, enterprises and developers who want to join) and show the teams themselves: how long they have worked together, how many projects they have shipped and what they build with.
One developer, built from scratch
I was the only developer on the project and wrote the site from scratch, working with a designer and a lead who reviewed my pull requests. The look is bright shapes on a dark ground and highlighted words in the headlines, plus a light theme that follows the visitor's system setting.
A live prototype stayed online the whole time, so the Squads product team reviewed real pages instead of mockups, and the site kept growing after launch.
Fast and found
I built it on Next.js with server-side rendering, back when that was one option among several and not the default it is today. Pages arrive as ready HTML, so search engines index them fully and the first screen shows up without waiting on JavaScript.
On top of that I did the technical SEO and the front-end optimisation, which made the site 60% faster. Content lives in Contentful, so the Squads team publishes without a developer.
