Hello, I am Ayotunde Ikuesan 👋🏾

I joined Consult Hyperion as a junior tester for my year in industry whilst studying at university. I was responsible for testing the firmware of contactless payment devices and also some software which was developed in-house.

During my time there, I also developed an employee clock-in system to replace the aging paper register. I used two Raspberry Pi's to register employees entering/exiting the building, alongside a web app which would display the day's roster in the event of a fire. This was my first project using C# and ASP.NET.

Assured Messages is a blog website I built for my dad. I migrated all his content over from Wordpress to Ghost as part of the project. TailwindCSS was used to create a completely custom design all from scratch.

Wanting to increase the scalability, I used NextJS to build a fully functional static site that can be served entirely from a CDN, using Ghost as a headless CMS.

I wanted my own dedicated platform to display some photos I’d taken and so built this site. I kept everything as simple and minimalistic as possible to keep the focus on the images.

I used Gatsby as the framework to build the site, because of the simple image optimisations and easy integrations with markdown. In the end — including generating content — the whole thing took around two weeks to build and release.

This website has undergone many different iterations, featuring Wordpress, Gatsby and even Jekyll! This is the latest version I have built from scratch using NextJS, MDX and TailwindCSS.

It's not quite finished yet, as I have plans to introduce more interactivity and animations. But as a place to learn more about me and host all of my blog posts, it's serving the purpose pretty well!