Sofia Perez
Software Engineer & UI/UX Designer
Experience
Xtender Solar
Frontend Developer & UI/UX Designer
Feb 2026 - May 2026
Got handed a logo and told to figure out the rest. Ran the Figma process top to bottom, then shipped an EN/ES site on Laravel/Inertia.js + React with GSAP animations. Two months to build it, then a month steering the client's visual direction before sign-off.
HELEN — Smart Home Assistant for the Deaf
Lead UI/UX Designer, Frontend Developer & Backend Architect
Sep 2025 - Nov 2025
Designed a textless interface for deaf users (icons only, no literacy barrier), then built the frontend and backend architecture for real-time LSM recognition. 15 users in testing; 67% completed tasks without any help.
SDGKU Survey Platform
Full Stack Developer
Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
Survey platform for SDGKU's faculty, built from zero. Invite-only registration to block unauthorized signups, role-based access for faculty and admins, admin UI designed in Figma before a line of PHP was written.
Projects
This Website
Designer & Frontend Developer
2026
Built this portfolio as a real product, not a template exercise. The Now Playing widget reverse-engineered Last.fm's scrobbling behavior to eliminate detection delay. It calculates exactly when a song ends by combining the scrobble timestamp with the real track duration from iTunes.
Act Kool
Designer & Developer
2026
Personal site for ideas that survive the first week. Designed the whole brand from scratch, then buried easter eggs throughout: type 'kool' anywhere for confetti, hit Konami for Kool Mode, or idle for 8 seconds and watch the cursor drift.
Education
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California — B.S. in Software Engineering and Emerging Technologies
Expected Dec 2026
San Diego Global Knowledge University — iOS Mobile Development Immersive
Nov 2025 - Present