About

I'm Haikal — a frontend engineer who spends most of my time in the gap between design and infrastructure. I care about the details that users feel but never name: the difference between a page that loads and a page that feels instant.

My background spans production e-commerce, affiliate platforms, and multi-tenant admin tools. Across all of it, the throughline has been the same: typed contracts, server-first rendering, and being honest about tradeoffs instead of pretending there weren't any.

This site is part of that practice — every page here is built the way I'd build it for a client, with the same performance budget and the same review standard.