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refactor: mechanical → frontend

Opendorjiwants to merge 16 commits into main from frontend

Self-taught frontend engineer from Trashigang, now based in Thimphu, Bhutan. I walked away from mechanical engineering in 2019, taught myself the web from C up to React, and have been shipping for 3 years. These days I build the frontend at Jaggle.AI.

history

  1. dorji branched frontend off mechanical · late 2019

    A government scholarship took me to NIT Kurukshetra, India for mechanical engineering. College showed me C and I barely understood it. I left, came home to Trashigang, and started over.

  2. 5 commits · 2020 – 2021

    1. chore: start over with C, one small problem at a time

    2. feat: HTML → CSS → JavaScript → React

    3. test: data-structure drills on HackerRank

      Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists — in JavaScript and Python.

    4. feat: first React app — a scientific calculator

      No BEDMAS. Brackets work, though.

    5. feat: first mobile app, built in a week

      React Native: record, edit and share 60-second videos.

  3. 3 commits · 2022

    1. feat: a Twitter clone on GetStream activity feeds

    2. feat: flash cards with Next.js and Firebase

    3. feat: an Instagram clone with real-time updates

      Kept shipping small things until the work felt real.

  4. dorji merged into SELISE Bhutan · Apr 2023

    Associate Frontend Engineer in Thimphu, after almost three years of teaching myself.

  5. 4 commits · 2023 – 2025

    1. feat: Next.js products for clients

    2. refactor: rebuild an internal tool for Migros, Switzerland

      Learned Angular the honest way — by shipping with it.

    3. docs: App Router patterns, in one repo

      Infinite scroll, parallel and intercepting routes, streaming.

      34

    4. docs: Formik vs React Hook Form, side by side

      25

  6. dorji merged into Jaggle.AI · late 2025

    A project workspace where tasks, docs, goals and calendars share one thread.

  7. dorji wip: the frontend of Jaggle.AI · nowHEAD

    List, Kanban, Gantt and Sprint views that stay fast on modest devices.

what changed

life.yml+6−4

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ whoami

from: Trashigang, Bhutan

studied: mechanical engineering

studied: the web, mostly by myself

based: Kurukshetra, India

based: Thimphu, Bhutan

@@ -6,1 +6,2 @@ stack

writes: C (barely)

writes: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Angular

styles: CSS, Tailwind

@@ -7,1 +8,2 @@ work

team: SELISE Bhutan

team: Jaggle.AI

ships: the frontend of a project workspace

@@ -8,2 +10,2 @@ cares

focus: making slow interfaces feel fast

cares: clean code, interfaces that stay out of the way

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  • self-taught— 6 years, since mid-2020
  • ci / shipping— 3 years in production
  • manual-testing— still run by hand, every time

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Trashigang at heart, Thimphu for work. Open to good conversations.

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