Portfolio — Reel 00 / Master
Jeret Christopher.
Design. Code. Words. I'm a UI/UX designer, Claude Code builder, and writer working out of the Klang Valley, Malaysia - three disciplines run on one signal, cut together like a film.
Seventeen years in IT, a CEH certification, and a habit of keeping a terminal open in one window and an unfinished manuscript in the other. My experience spans bridging financial institutions and technology through real-time (T+0) settlement: bank API and Host-to-Host integrations, supporting services for reporting, authentication, and operations, all running on high-availability AWS infrastructure. Across digital asset platforms, fund managers, and e-wallet providers, I design and implement secure, scalable systems that streamline operations and earn trust. I design interfaces that move like film, build the quiet automated systems that run behind them, and write the words that hold the whole reel together.
Interfaces with a sense of pace
UI/UX design built like a cut sequence - grid, rhythm, and just enough restraint to let the work breathe.
I design and build carousel systems and cinematic web experiences - work that's meant to be watched as much as used. The Editorial Carousel Bundle packages four of these into a licensed component set: Lumière's Swiss-grid precision, The Editorial's typographic calm, Film Reel's frame-by-frame motion, and Noir Folio's high-contrast restraint.
Systems that run themselves
Claude Code in one panel, a pipeline running in the other - automation built to keep working after I close the laptop.
Most of what I build now runs through Claude Code - from CLI-driven feature builds to full pipelines that discover, enrich, and pitch on their own. Folio is the clearest example: an automated domain-outreach platform that combines Apify for discovery, Firecrawl for enrichment, Abstract API for email validation, and Claude for personalised pitch generation, with Telegram alerts and a live Vercel dashboard.
The same systems-first approach shaped PropAssist, a multilingual property AI app (English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin) built for a working property agent, and TaskProxy.ai, a small constellation of domains forming a sovereign AI orchestration brand. A CEH background means the security side of these systems isn't an afterthought.
Stories first, interfaces second
Every system I build still needs a voice - copy, narrative, and the kind of pacing that comes from writing fiction.
My debut novella, The Heavy Shadow, is where the writing started - a supernatural noir following Kasra, a "Walker" who slips out of his skin to navigate the Grey, London's spectral margin. It still sets the tone for everything else: the same instinct for atmosphere, restraint, and pacing carries into the copy, narrative arcs, and on-page voice of every interface and tribute site I build.
The book even has its own original soundtrack - because every shadow has a frequency. Music came first, actually: I spent years behind the kit, drumming for Charlotte Dreams (alternative, the '90s), Necromanicide (thrash metal, also the '90s), Tinderbox (fusion, early 2000s), and Transfix (formed during the first COVID lockdown). Music and fiction sit in the same discipline as design and code for me: composition, restraint, and knowing exactly when to cut.
Field log
A working log of recent builds - across design systems, AI pipelines, and the occasional cinematic detour.