01
Public story
Selected work, capabilities, technical writing and a clear route to start a conversation.
← Selected work
Case study / 2026
Portfolio & Client Workspace
A public portfolio and secure personal workspace designed as one coherent product — clear in public, focused in private and deliberately lightweight throughout.
- Role
- Design & development
- Scope
- Public site + private workspace
- Status
- Live · actively maintained
01 / The problem
A portfolio usually stops exactly where the working relationship starts.
The public site needed to communicate design and engineering capability without becoming another decorative agency page.
The private side needed a clear place for clients, projects, contracts and publishing without the weight of a large business platform.
02 / Product model
02
Personal workspace
A private place to manage current client work and publish journal entries.
03
Shared quality
Consistent interaction, visual hierarchy and dependable server-rendered performance.
03 / Architecture
Small layers. Clear responsibilities.
The application stays explicit enough to understand, test and extend without turning ordinary product work into a framework exercise.
HTTP request
↓ security + request middleware
handler
↓ domain validation
repository
↓ parameterised persistence
data store
↓ Go model + template
HTML response
04 / Trust
Security treated as product quality.
bcrypt password hashing
hashed server-side sessions
CSRF and cross-origin controls
login attempt throttling
secure cookie policy
no-store admin responses
Outcome