Senior web developer · Digital designer

Thoughtful websites, shaped by design instinct and built with technical depth.

I help organizations make complicated web work feel clear—from the interface people see to the systems that keep it useful.

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Bernard Uhden Jr.Central Pennsylvania, USA
26 yearsDesigning and building for the web
Whole systemDesign, development, content, infrastructure
One partnerFrom first sketch to final launch
Built to lastClear today, maintainable tomorrow
01Approach

Designer by instinct. Developer by practice. Problem solver by default.

That overlap helps me find the problem beneath the symptom—and build a more complete answer.

I began in visual design, then kept following the work beneath the surface: frontend development, WordPress, PHP, UX, infrastructure, performance, and modern React.

Today, I work across those layers instead of stopping where a problem first appears.

I turn complicated web problems into systems people can understand, use, and maintain.
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02Selected work

Problems worth solving.

The screenshots are only the surface. The thinking, tradeoffs, and outcomes are the real work.

Layered blue topographic contours suggesting connected locationsFeatured case study

Systems design · Custom application

Update a location once. See it change everywhere.

A shared Google Sheet powers an OpenStreetMap-based application embedded across five websites—replacing duplicated location records with one maintainable source of truth.One update. Five websites. No duplicated work.Read the case study
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03Expertise

The best web work happens between disciplines.

Tools change. Knowing how design, code, content, and infrastructure shape one another is what keeps the work useful.

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CraftSystemsPerformance
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Web Development

Thoughtful, durable sites and applications built to stay useful after launch.

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Digital Design & UX

Clear, responsive experiences shaped by visual judgment and technical reality.

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WordPress Engineering

Custom content systems that make complex websites easier to publish and maintain.

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Performance & Reliability

Fast, predictable websites with fewer hidden failure points.

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04Working philosophy

Performance is design.

Fast respects time. Clear respects attention. Maintainable respects whoever works on it next.

26years on the web
and still learning

Experience should add context—not close the door on a better way to work.

01

Stay curious.

Twenty-six years of experience should mean twenty-six years of context—not twenty-six years of doing things the same way.

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Understand the problem first.

Writing code is often the easy part. The valuable work is discovering what actually needs to be solved.

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Keep things understandable.

Technical sophistication does not require unnecessary complexity. Good systems should make sense to the next person.

04

Stay calm when something breaks.

Websites break. APIs fail. Methodical thinking is more useful than panic, especially when the stakes are real.

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05Insights

Field notes from the real web.

Design, development, performance, and the day-to-day work of keeping websites useful.

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Need a thoughtful web partner?

Bring me the problem behind the problem.

I’ll help you make sense of it, choose the right path, and build a solution that holds up.

Let’s talk