Personal project · Portfolio · 2026
This site, built like a CV
A CV-shaped portfolio built with Astro and deployed on Cloudflare Workers, made to learn the framework and give the work a place to live.
Question I started withHow simple can the structure be while the page still reads like a designed CV?
The brief
I wanted a portfolio that reads like the document it replaces: a CV you can scroll, with clear sections and no template showing through. The constraint was structural — keep the markup simple enough that I could explain every part of it.
The site was also the reason to learn Astro, widen my front-end knowledge, and give my projects a place to live beyond a GitHub repository.
How it is built
Astro renders the pages statically. Personal data lives in src/data/site.ts; each project is a
Markdown file in a content collection, so adding a case study means adding a file rather than
touching the layout. Styling is hand-written CSS driven by a single set of design tokens.
The site is deployed on Cloudflare Workers. There is no client-side framework and no runtime JavaScript beyond what the browser provides.
What I learned
- Astro’s content collections make a project list a data problem, not a layout problem.
- A static site still needs a image pipeline: covers and the Open Graph cards are generated at build time.
- Simple structure is a feature. A section that cannot justify its place gets cut.
What is next
The portrait and project covers are still temporary artwork. The next pass replaces them with a real photo and screenshots from the three projects.