A static resume or LinkedIn profile captures what happened — it can't explain why it mattered, answer follow-up questions, or demonstrate how a candidate thinks in real time. For a senior payments leader with nearly two decades of context across global enterprises, early-stage fintechs, and AI product work, the traditional format was too limiting.
The challenge: build something that showcases both domain depth and modern technical fluency — without months of development time and without a web dev team.
Rather than hiring an agency or using a template platform, I built this entire portfolio site in one week using Claude Sonnet 4.6 as the primary development partner. Every section, animation, component, and the AI chat widget was designed and shipped through an iterative Claude Code workflow.
The architecture decision was deliberate: no React, no Next.js, no package complexity. The constraint forced clarity — every feature had to justify itself in plain HTML and CSS. The AI chat is the only server-side component, handled by a single Vercel edge function calling the Anthropic API over SSE.
This site is the proof of concept. A payments domain expert with AI fluency doesn't need a dev team to ship production-quality software. The line between "strategist" and "builder" has blurred — and I'm on both sides of it.