# Matthew Bayers | Frontend Developer

## Hiring summary

Matthew Bayers is a Frontend Developer who combines frontend engineering in React, Next.js, and TypeScript with visual design and user experience skills. His projects connect design systems, custom typography, and responsive layouts with clear navigation and purposeful interactions, carrying creative decisions through to working applications.

## About

I’m a Frontend Developer with a background in graphic design. I build interfaces with the same care for how they work as how they look, bringing visual identity, interaction, and code into one coherent experience.

I enjoy shaping a product from the first idea to the smallest detail. That might mean developing a design system, creating a custom typeface, or refining an interaction until it feels natural. Outside of code, I write fiction and paint.

## Availability

Currently available for full-time roles and select freelance projects. Open to remote.

## Technical skills

### Frontend

React, Next.js, TypeScript, HTML, CSS.

### Backend

Node.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma.

### Design & testing

Design systems, Responsive design, Playwright, Vitest.

## Selected work

### Sonus

Sonus is a language-learning app built for serious learners. It uses native-speaker standards for fluency, draws from country-of-origin vocabulary lists, and organizes study into units that build on each other over time. It is not perfect, but it is honest, a language lab for the serious learner.

Project type: Full-Stack Web Application

Role on this project: Frontend Developer

Year: 2026

Technologies and disciplines: React, TypeScript, Fastify, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Vite

- [Portfolio case study](https://matthewbayers.com/work/sonus)
- [Case study in Markdown](https://matthewbayers.com/work/sonus.md)
- [Live site](https://sonuslearning.com/)
- [Source code](https://github.com/mbayers6370/Sonus)

### Android Scheduler

Redesigning a scheduling experience around clarity, hierarchy, and discoverability.

Project type: Android Application

Role on this project: UI/UX Design & Android Development

Year: 2026

Technologies and disciplines: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android, UI/UX Design

- [Portfolio case study](https://matthewbayers.com/work/cs499-eportfolio)
- [Case study in Markdown](https://matthewbayers.com/work/cs499-eportfolio.md)
- [ePortfolio](https://mbayers6370.github.io/cs499-eportfolio/)

### NELARide

NELARide is a community rideshare startup building connected Rider and Driver apps. I began by spearheading the website redesign, then expanded into product design work across the platform, helping shape branding, UI guidelines, and a more cohesive visual system across both apps.

Project type: Product Design / Website Redesign

Role on this project: Product Design Intern

Year: 2026

Technologies and disciplines: Branding, Product Design, UI Design, Design Systems, UX Audit, Website Redesign

- [Portfolio case study](https://matthewbayers.com/work/nelaride)
- [Case study in Markdown](https://matthewbayers.com/work/nelaride.md)
- [Live Site](https://nelaride.com)

### Margin

Margin explores a simpler, more intentional social platform through a finite, chronological feed, intentional posting limits, mutual friendships, and smaller shared spaces. It is designed to make room for life outside the feed.

Project type: Social Web Application

Role on this project: Product Design & Full-Stack Development

Year: 2026

Technologies and disciplines: Product Design, UI/UX Design, Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, PostgreSQL

- [Portfolio case study](https://matthewbayers.com/work/margin)
- [Case study in Markdown](https://matthewbayers.com/work/margin.md)
- [Live demo](https://social-8vx3.onrender.com)
- [Source code](https://github.com/mbayers6370/social)

## Contact and professional profiles

- [Email Matthew Bayers](mailto:matthew.bayers@gmail.com)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/mbayers6370)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bayers)
- [Portfolio](https://matthewbayers.com/)