I design things, I build them, and then I ship them.
Ten years running Elusive Designs — freelance web dev and branding for small businesses. WordPress, WooCommerce, brand identities, hosting, graphic design, whatever they needed. Somewhere around a hundred clients. The design side was always what pulled me in. Before that, overnight shifts at a network operations center.
Now I'm designing and building full-stack products from scratch. React, Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma. Each project starts as a design problem, then I build the whole thing. The projects ended up being tools for tabletop RPG game masters, because I kept finding problems nobody had designed a good solution for.
| ⚔️ | Saga · demo | Campaign tracker for tabletop RPGs. 8 interconnected views, 19 API endpoints, PWA. The most complete thing I've built. |
| 🎙️ | Voicecraft | NPC voice profiles. Mixer interface for something with no established UI pattern. Dialect coaching, sample lines. |
| 🕯️ | Pinch | Claude usage monitor for Windows. Taskbar pill that goes green/yellow/red. Nothing to do with D&D — just got tired of hitting rate limits blind. |
- Open to product, design, or development work
- jarredkern.vercel.app
- Growing a D&D memes TikTok
- Shelby, NC
Stack
TypeScript, Next.js, React, Tailwind, Prisma, PostgreSQL, D3.js, Framer Motion, Python.
Everything designed and built from scratch. No templates, no boilerplate.
Background
Started in IT — overnight shifts at a network operations center. Hardware installs, structured cabling, infrastructure monitoring.
Then ten years of Elusive Designs. WordPress, WooCommerce, hosting, brand identities, graphic design. Hundred-something clients, full lifecycle — from the logo to the checkout page to the DNS records.
My resume reads more like a map than a ladder. That's the whole skill.