hello, i'm ray 👋🏻
i build pixel-perfect UIs at paynet

Frontend engineer by trade, obsessive craftsman by nature. I make pixels behave, mostly at PayNet, and I’ve been hooked on building things for the web since I was a kid.

I’ve been tinkering with code since I was 10 — back when “deployment” meant coaxing a janky private Habbo server to boot on XAMPP. That first hit of making something real never wore off.

I’m not the fastest engineer, and I’m no prodigy — I just refuse to ship things I’m not proud of. This site is where the rest of me lives: experiments, half-baked ideas, and the occasional thought worth keeping.

Welcome to a tiny corner of the internet I somehow ended up owning!

My love for programming didn’t start in a classroom or a textbook. It began with my 10-year-old self tinkering with PHP and XAMPP while accompanied by a random Indian guy on YouTube teaching me how to spin up a private Habbo server.

It was messy as hell and I didn’t know what the hell was I doing. But seeing something I made coming to life and actually worked for the first time felt like magic. That was enough to spark something that never really went away.

Since then, coding stopped being just about getting things to work and became about getting things right. I’m far from being a prodigy and I’m definitely not fast. I just have a stubborn need to care. I’ll happily spend an unreasonable amount of time polishing something most people would call “good enough.”

I’ve got big plans for myself, and I’m probably still at the beginning of them. There are too many things I want to build, too many skills I want to earn the slow way, and too many ideas sitting half-formed in my head.

This site is where some of those thoughts land: A mix of experiments, reflections, side projects, and the occasional ramble when I’m thinking out loud.

None of this is finished. I’m not either. But if you’re here, thanks for stopping by!