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 CaliforniaB.S. in Software Engineering and Emerging Technologies

Expected Dec 2026

San Diego Global Knowledge UniversityiOS Mobile Development Immersive

Nov 2025 - Present