Software Engineer · Independent since 2016
I build software
that ships.
I'm Jarrett Yew - a software engineer working across the full product surface, from first scope to production. A decade of it, across edtech, consulting, and my own company.
01 - Experience
Where I've worked
2020 - Present
Software Engineer - IndependentCurrent
Quick Funnel Media
Advise clients on technical direction and ship the work end to end - scoping, architecture, build, and handover across web and mobile.
- Own delivery from first scoping call through production handover.
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into shippable technical scope.
- Build and maintain web and mobile applications for long-running clients.
- React
- Next.js
- Ruby on Rails
- TypeScript
2021 - 2023
Frontend Engineer
Built and maintained the student, teacher, and payment portals for an edtech platform used across schools.
- Shipped features across three production portals serving students and teachers.
- Worked on the payment portal, where correctness and edge cases carry real cost.
- Maintained shared internal frontend applications alongside product work.
- React
- TypeScript
- SCSS
2019 - 2020
Software Engineer
Silicon Jungles
Full-stack product work across web and mobile, moving between languages and frameworks as the roadmap required.
- Delivered features across React, React Native, and Rails codebases.
- Adapted across platforms and content management systems as projects demanded.
- React
- React Native
- Ruby on Rails
2016 - 2019
Technical Co-founder
Develop IT Right
Co-founded and led engineering for a software consultancy, shipping interactive business systems for clients in several industries.
- Designed and shipped a hospital asset management system.
- Built a foreign worker application platform and a printing quotation system.
- Set technical direction and delivery process as a founding engineer.
- Ruby on Rails
- Firebase
- JavaScript
02 - Selected work
Things I've built
Internal platform
2018
NLT Nexus
Hospital asset management system for tracking equipment across departments, built to replace a manual paper process.
- Ruby on Rails
- Firebase
Business system
2018
FWTeq
Application and case management platform for foreign worker outsourcing, covering a long multi-stage approval workflow.
- Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript
Marketing site
2019
IFPA - Segi College
Training and education website for a college programme, with course listings and enrolment funnels.
- WordPress
- JavaScript
Product service
2020-
Landing Page Studio
An ongoing service building conversion-focused landing pages for coaches and consultants.
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
E-commerce
2021
Mimosa Coffee
Storefront for a coffee brand, covering catalogue, cart, and checkout.
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
Marketing site
2021
IUVO Art Center
Portfolio and enquiry site for an interior design practice, built around their project photography.
- WordPress
- SCSS
Marketing engineering
2020
SKF Landing Pages
Landing pages built inside the Act-On marketing automation platform for a global manufacturing brand.
- Act-On
- HTML/CSS
03 - Blog
Philosophy, business, and tech
Philosophy - Life struggle, kinship, and family.
Entrepreneurship - Freelancing and the one-person business.
Tech - AI, Ruby on Rails, and ERP.
August 16, 2026
Migrating a portfolio to Tailwind CSS v4
What actually changes when you move from the JavaScript config to the CSS-first setup - and the one thing that made dark mode simpler.
Tech3 min readTailwindCSSAugust 10, 2026
A file-based blog in Next.js, without a CMS
Markdown files, frontmatter, and about eighty lines of TypeScript - why I stopped reaching for a headless CMS on small sites.
Tech3 min readNext.jsMDX
04 - About
A bit about me
I've been building software professionally since 2016 - first as the technical co-founder of a consultancy, then in-house on an edtech platform, and now independently for clients who need something built properly the first time.
The through-line is product thinking. I'm most useful where the requirements are still fuzzy: turning a vague business problem into a scoped, shippable system, then building it. I'm comfortable owning the whole surface - interface, API, data model, deployment.
React and Ruby on Rails are where I'm fastest, but I'm deliberately stack-agnostic; I've shipped in whatever the problem called for. Lately I've been working with AI-integrated tooling and writing up what I learn.
Outside of work I teach - building educational content on YouTube - and spend a good amount of time in the gym.
- Frontend
- TypeScriptReactNext.jsVueAngularTailwind CSS
- Backend
- Node.jsExpressRuby on RailsFirebase
- Craft
- FigmaWordPressGitTesting
05 - Contact
Got something worth building?
I take on a small number of projects at a time. If you have one in mind, tell me about it - I'll give you a straight answer on whether I'm the right fit.
jarrett.yew@gmail.com