Front-end Development + Design & Front-end Strategy + Motion & Interactive Development

Leveraging Front-end Engineering and Design Strategy to Craft Digital Experiences.

My name is Nathan Keeys – I'm a frontend software engineer, designer, and music artist. I provide services that help businesses design, strategize and build websites and software. I've contributed as frontend engineer and UI/UX designer for almost a decade working on user interfaces for websites and web applications small and large. Currently, my focus is in the area of design strategy, process and workflow efficiency and frontend web/software engineering. I also speak and teach workshops on design, creative code and frontend development.


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Services

Design + Frontend Strategy

As a strategist, my role is to bridge the gaps between design and front-end development teams, ultimately improving workflows and project efficiency. To achieve this, I focus on delivering these key results which are designed to eliminating pain points while working on highly interactive websites:

  • UI/UX Design and Frontend Workflow Audits
  • Design-to-Development Handoff Strategy
  • Documentation, Templating and Automation
  • Technology Adoption Research and Strategy

Frontend Development

This service offers high-quality implementation, where I either work independently or lead initiatives to design and develop interactive websites. This service is design-centered and focuses on optimizing interactivity, performance, web accessibility, scalability and overall user-centered frontend development.

  • React/Vue.js + Node.js + Typescript
  • HTML + CSS (CSS Frameworks)
  • Web Accessibility (WCAG + 508)
  • Docker + CI/CD + AWS

Work

CarpeDM Dating - Fullstack Development + Stripe Implementation

DC's Exclusive Dating App for Professional Black Women! I helped CarpeDM Dating build a member portal so users can update their dating profile information with ease.

80% Cacao Music - Creative Frontend Development

I designed and built out a minimal one-pager for a electronic music project of mine. Feel free to check it out the music!

My Work Week (VA) - Fullstack Development + Web Accessibility

UI/UX in healthcare requires a lot of research, empathy, and understanding of healthcare processes. I worked with a team of designers, researchers, and engineers to help deliver a patient appointment scheduling application for clinicians at VA hospitals.

FBI Jobs - Frontend Development + Content Architecture

No, this isn’t a security risk—you just might be watch too much true crime. I was a lead on the front-end development team that built the most recent FBI Jobs website.

Noisegen.io - Creative Frontend Development

Noisegen.io is an award-winning interactive experience I built that allows users to experiment with 3D grid planes and Perlin noise.

RP3 Agency - Frontend Development + UI Prototyping

While on the RP3 creative technology team, I provided UI/UX design consulting, UI prototyping and frontend Drupal development for their current website.

Vinvox - SVG Animation

I built a SVG-based point animation system for Vinvox's current website.

Events

  • 06/12/2024

    Three.js Fundamentals - The Collab Lab - Remote

  • 11/10/2023

    Creative Coding Workshop (Three.js) - Women Who Code (now WiSE Women in Software Engineering JP) - Ginza Tokyo, JP

  • 08/2021 - 10/2022

    Fullstack Bootcamp - 2U Bootcamps - Arlington, VA

  • 01/2018 - 03/2018

    Mentor - AIGA SHINE Mentorship - Washington DC