Hester NG portfolio website showing professional CV and career transition pages

Hester NG.com

When deadline pressure meets Rails efficiency. A complete professional portfolio built start to finish in under 5 hours.

Visit Live Site February 2026
Hours
5

From zero to production. Domain, server, design, all pages.

Pages
5

CV, Why Finance, Research, Contact, Home

$ ./the-challenge

The Deadline

My girlfriend needed a professional portfolio website for a job application. The deadline? Tomorrow morning. No existing website, no prepared content. Just raw determination and a Rails base project ready to go.

"Sometimes the best projects come from constraints. With only hours to spare, every decision had to be both fast and right."
Languages
3

English, German, Simplified Chinese with full i18n

Build Cost
~€0

Built for my girlfriend using existing components

$ ls ./gallery
$ ./tech-stack
Rails 8 Tailwind CSS Stimulus Hotwire i18n Dark Mode
$ ./project-overview

Full portfolio for Hester's career switch from procurement to finance. Three languages (English, German, Chinese), dark mode, an interactive CV with timeline navigation, a 'Why Finance' story page, and a research paper showcase. Built and deployed in one evening.

Solo Developer February 2026
$ ./cv
Feature

Interactive CV

Timeline-based career display with scroll navigation and skills grid. PDF export functionality for recruiters who prefer traditional formats.

  • • Timeline-based career history
  • • Skills grid with proficiency levels
$ ./why-finance

Career Story

'Why Finance' page walking through the career transition from procurement to finance with real examples and transferable skills sections.

  • • Real examples of transferable skills
  • • Clear story that recruiters actually get
$ ./research
Feature

Research Scroll Gallery

Horizontal scroll presentation for academic research papers. Transforms dense PDFs into interactive visual stories with animated panels, decision flowcharts, and embedded PDF viewer.

  • • Full-screen horizontal scroll panels
  • • Decision flowchart visualizations
  • • Embedded PDF viewer at the end
$ ./results

What Happened

Complete portfolio live and submitted before deadline

5 custom pages, each with unique purpose and design

What I Learned

A solid base project turns 'impossible' timelines into 'challenging but doable'

Constraints force clarity. No time for scope creep means features that actually matter.

Reusable components pay dividends when deadline pressure hits

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