The real version of my CV is a quiet, paper-white page. Then there is the Board: the same career, gamified. A heads-up display, ticker, KPI tiles, trophy cabinet, and a 3D reactor of my skill set.
None of it is necessary. That is rather the point.
The one site you get to over-build
I have spent most of my career building for other people, where the work has a real job to do and real people using it. That is the good part. A personal site is the one place where the brief is whatever I want it to be, so here it was simply this: take the CV data and go completely over the top with it, for the fun of it.
So the skills became a reactor of stars you can spin, zoom, and lock onto a single galaxy. The roles and the stack plot themselves across one timeline. The achievements are trophies, and the current objective - the next move - is a not-very-subtle nudge to email me. It is my real career underneath - the same roles, the same numbers, nothing invented - just wearing a silly costume.
The one rule I set myself was no cross-over. The plain CV has to stay fast and accessible, ATS friendly, full marks in Lighthouse, readable by a screen reader and by a recruiter in a hurry. So the Board's Three.js loads in its own chunk that the main site never pulls - all the spectacle, none of the weight on the pages that actually matter.
It is not subtle. My own games are live at Bitsler for much the same reason: sometimes the honest move is to build the thing nobody asked for, just to keep the craft sharp.
Have a look, have a play. Then read the real one if you want to hire me.
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