I'm Yolan — a senior developer who architects fast, multilingual websites and stores line by line. AI accelerates the craft; it never replaces the judgement. Mastered, not enslaved.
Every capability below is engineered from scratch and proven on a real, shipped project. No page builders, no boilerplate — just code I understand top to bottom.
Type scales, color, spacing, motion and components — a coherent system, not a pile of CSS.
Sectioned scroll, sticky chapters and reveal choreography — performance-budgeted, never gratuitous.
Ship content edits without a developer in the loop.
Stripe & Twint checkouts that convert.
Deferred imagery, semantic markup and clean Core Web Vitals — fast for users and for Google.
Theme, accent, typeface — every visual decision is a token. Flip one and the whole system follows, live.
No page builders, no plugin sprawl, no theme to fight. Every site is written from scratch in a modern stack I know deep enough to bend. The three tools below do the heavy lifting — scroll, and each one opens itself as the line reaches it.
Every site I build is a Next.js application. The App Router gives me server components, streaming and file-based routing — pages render on the server for speed and SEO, then hydrate only the parts that need to be interactive. One framework, from marketing page to checkout.
Content lives in Sanity, fully decoupled from the front-end. Editors update products, posts and imagery inside a Studio I tailor to their workflow; I query exactly the shape each page needs with GROQ and render it through Portable Text. No developer in the loop for day-to-day edits.
Checkout runs on Stripe. Sessions are created server-side, confirmed by signed webhooks and reconciled before anything ships — secure by construction, never trusting the browser. Multi-currency plus Twint gives Belgian and EU customers the payment methods they actually reach for.
Every reveal, scroll chapter and hover flourish runs on GSAP. ScrollTrigger pins sections and ties animation to scroll position; timelines sequence the choreography frame-accurately. It's the difference between a site that loads and one that moves — performance-budgeted, never gratuitous.
A site spun up the way I actually work — architecture first, design system second, then shipped. The judgement is human; the speed is the tooling.
Deep-dive the technology →Real sites for real clients across Belgium and beyond — multilingual, fast, and built to convert.
A multilingual clean-beauty storefront — calm editorial pacing around a frictionless, CMS-driven buying flow.
A cinematic, dark portfolio split into seven scroll chapters — 55 projects, sticky chapter nav, top Lighthouse scores.
A premium brand site framing past productions at scale, with a contact funnel built to qualify the right leads.
An independent sportswear brand site — bold gradient system, Sun & Moon collections, a story-first arc.
I harness AI the way a craftsman harnesses a power tool — for speed and leverage, never to hand over the thinking. The app isn't the work. The judgement is.
AI drafts; I decide structure, trade-offs and the data model. The blueprint is human.
Nothing reaches production I can't read, refactor and defend. No black boxes.
AI removes the busywork so more time goes to craft, performance and the details that matter.
Mastered, not enslaved. The senior engineer stays in the driver's seat — always.
Five stages, start to ship. The line draws as you scroll — each stage lights up the moment you reach it.
Goals, audience, budget — and what success actually means before a line is written.
Stack, data model and structure decided up front — the blueprint is human.
A real system you can see early and react to, refined together — not a static mockup.
Hand-coded, AI-accelerated, multilingual and SEO-ready — every line shipped understood.
Measure, iterate, and I stay on for whatever comes next.
From blank file to shipped product. Tell me what you have in mind — I'll tell you how I'd build it.