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<li><a href="#about">about</a></li>
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<p class="hero-eyebrow">// havox.org — v4</p>
<h1 class="hero-name">John <em>Gatward</em></h1>
<p class="hero-subtitle">Software Developer</p>
<p class="hero-desc">
<span class="hero-by-line"><span class="hero-by">Backend engineer</span><span class="hero-by-role">by
trade</span></span>
<span class="hero-by-line"><span class="hero-by">Full-stack developer</span><span class="hero-by-role">by
curiosity</span></span>
<span class="hero-by-line"><span class="hero-by">Unofficial family cloud engineer</span><span
class="hero-by-role">by necessity</span></span>
<span class="hero-by-footer">I like building useful things and understanding how they work.</span>
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<a href="#projects" class="btn btn-primary">see my work</a>
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<section id="about" class="about-section">
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<p class="section-label">about</p>
<h2 class="section-heading">Havox & <em>me</em></h2>
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<div class="about-columns">
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<div class="about-block">
<span class="about-block-tag tag tag-blue">day job</span>
<p>Backend engineer at <strong>Sainsbury's</strong> Supply Chain &amp; Logistics. Microservices,
Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, AWS. It's good fun.</p>
</div>
<div class="about-block">
<span class="about-block-tag tag tag-teal">dev</span>
<p>Fascinated with new languages, frameworks, and shiny tech I probably dont need. Constantly
tinkering, breaking things, and learning just enough to build something cooler next time.</p>
</div>
<div class="about-block">
<span class="about-block-tag tag tag-yellow">linux</span>
<p>Long-time Linux user and recovering distro-hopper. Currently: Hyprland on Void. Home server
running 24/7 for friends and family who didn't ask for it but appreciate it.</p>
</div>
<div class="about-block">
<span class="about-block-tag tag tag-mauve">havox</span>
<p>Started in 2017 as a place to dump whatever I found interesting. Four redesigns and several dead
domains later, it's still going. Less a portfolio, more a paper trail.</p>
</div>
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<p class="section-label">version history</p>
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<div class="v-content">
<div class="v-title">Havox V4 <span class="v-current-badge">current</span></div>
<div class="v-year">2026 → present</div>
<div class="v-desc">Catppuccin Mocha. Single page. Trying to get a new job this time.</div>
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<a class="version-item version-item--link" href="archive/v3/index.html">
<div class="v-dot"></div>
<div class="v-content">
<div class="v-title">Havox V3 <span class="v-link-arrow"></span></div>
<div class="v-year">2022 → 2025</div>
<div class="v-desc">Borrowed a template. Wasn't very 'me'.</div>
</div>
</a>
<a class="version-item version-item--link" href="archive/v2/index.html">
<div class="v-dot"></div>
<div class="v-content">
<div class="v-title">Umbra.cyou <span class="v-link-arrow"></span></div>
<div class="v-year">2019 → 2022</div>
<div class="v-desc">Complete redesign using SCSS & Nord theme.</div>
</div>
</a>
<a class="version-item version-item--link" href="archive/v1/index.html">
<div class="v-dot"></div>
<div class="v-content">
<div class="v-title">Havox.org <span class="v-link-arrow"></span></div>
<div class="v-year">2016 → 2019</div>
<div class="v-desc">Entire site in one PHP file 🤣. Had a daily <s>trump</s>
quote-of-the-day achieved via webscraping a site daily.</div>
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</a>
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<section id="skills">
<p class="section-label reveal">skills</p>
<h2 class="section-heading reveal" style="transition-delay:0.05s">What I <em>know</em></h2>
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<h3>Backend</h3>
<p>Professional Java experience building microservices &amp; RESTful APIs with Spring Boot. TDD with
JUnit & Mockito.</p>
<div class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-blue">Java</span>
<span class="tag tag-green">Spring Boot</span>
<span class="tag tag-teal">AWS</span>
<span class="tag tag-peach">Kafka</span>
<span class="tag tag-sky">MongoDB</span>
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<span class="skill-card-icon">🎨</span>
<h3>Frontend & Creative</h3>
<p>Comfortable with react and CSS. I enjoy visualising algorithms interactively — it's more fun than
a
console output.</p>
<div class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-teal">React</span>
<span class="tag tag-green">TypeScript</span>
<span class="tag tag-blue">HTML/CSS</span>
</div>
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<div class="skill-card reveal" style="transition-delay:0.16s">
<span class="skill-card-icon">🖥</span>
<h3>Systems & Infra</h3>
<p>Long-term Linux user. Self-hosted web & media servers. Comfortable with networking, security
practices, and the command line.</p>
<div class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-green">Linux</span>
<span class="tag tag-teal">Docker</span>
<span class="tag tag-blue">Self-Hosting</span>
<span class="tag tag-peach">Wireguard</span>
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<span class="skill-card-icon">🎓</span>
<h3>Academic Breadth</h3>
<p>C, C++, x86_64 assembly, Haskell, R &amp; MatLab from uni. Modules in Advanced networking,
algorithms, compilers,
graphics, cryptography, malware analysis & many more.</p>
<div class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-blue">C / C++</span>
<span class="tag tag-mauve">Haskell</span>
<span class="tag tag-yellow">Algorithms</span>
<span class="tag tag-teal">Security</span>
<span class="tag tag-peach">Low Level OS</span>
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<section id="projects">
<p class="section-label reveal">projects</p>
<h2 class="section-heading reveal" style="transition-delay:0.05s">Things I <em>built</em></h2>
<p class="section-intro reveal" style="transition-delay:0.1s">
A timeline of all my projects and experiments. Started with p5.js, then the tech-stack mirrored whatever I was interested in at that time.
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<span>Featured projects</span>
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<a class="card" href="https://wordlesolver.umbra.mom">
<span class="card-date">9 Feb 2025</span>
<span class="card-title">Wordle Solver</span>
<span class="card-desc">Built after getting frustrated after one too many missed 3-guess games. Now it
plays marginally better than me.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-yellow">Rust</span>
<span class="tag tag-teal">React</span>
<span class="tag tag-peach">TypeScript</span>
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</a>
<a class="card" href="#projects">
<span class="card-date">13 Apr 2024</span>
<span class="card-title">Crack the Quote</span>
<span class="card-desc">A fun word puzzle game focused on breaking a simple substitution cipher from a
daily quote.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-yellow">Rust</span>
<span class="tag tag-teal">React</span>
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
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<span>All projects</span>
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<button type="button" class="filter-chip" data-filter="webassembly">WebAssembly</button>
<button type="button" class="filter-chip" data-filter="p5">p5.js</button>
<button type="button" class="filter-chip" data-filter="zig">Zig</button>
<button type="button" class="filter-chip" data-filter="cpp">C / C++</button>
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<a class="card project-card" data-tech="cpp webassembly" href="projects/thin_ice/thin_ice.html">
<span class="card-date">14 Nov 2024</span>
<span class="card-title">Thin Ice</span>
<span class="card-desc">A small browser tile game inspired by one I played growing up.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-blue">C++</span>
<span class="tag tag-teal">WebAssembly</span>
<span class="tag tag-peach">RayLib</span>
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<a class="card project-card" data-tech="zig webassembly" href="projects/tsp/index.html">
<span class="card-date">20 Mar 2024</span>
<span class="card-title">Travelling Salesman Problem</span>
<span class="card-desc">A nearest-neighbor + 2-opt pathfinding visualiser.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-yellow">Zig</span>
<span class="tag tag-sky">WebGL</span>
<span class="tag tag-teal">WebAssembly</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="rust" href="projects/flocking/index.html">
<span class="card-date">31 Jan 2024</span>
<span class="card-title">Flocking</span>
<span class="card-desc">A simulation to show how complex behaviour emerges from 3 simple rules.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-yellow">Rust</span>
<span class="tag tag-peach">Raylib</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript" href="https://samstoreymusic.com">
<span class="card-date">1 Nov 2023</span>
<span class="card-title">samstoreymusic.com</span>
<span class="card-desc">A website design and build for a friend working in music.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-mauve">HTML/CSS</span>
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript react" href="projects/cellular_automata/index.html">
<span class="card-date">21 Jul 2023</span>
<span class="card-title">Game of Life</span>
<span class="card-desc">After building Conway's Game of Life in p5.js, I expanded it into a generic automata simulator.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-teal">React</span>
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="cpp webassembly" href="projects/percolation/index.html">
<span class="card-date">5 Feb 2022</span>
<span class="card-title">Percolation</span>
<span class="card-desc">A visual demo of percolation through a medium, showing how behavior changes as p increases.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-blue">C</span>
<span class="tag tag-peach">RayLib</span>
<span class="tag tag-teal">WebAssembly</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript p5" href="projects/cubic_bezier_curve/index.html">
<span class="card-date">1 Oct 2021</span>
<span class="card-title">Drawing Bézier curves</span>
<span class="card-desc">An interactive diagram for cubic Bézier curves.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
<span class="tag tag-red">p5.js</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript p5" href="projects/marching_squares.html">
<span class="card-date">17 Sep 2021</span>
<span class="card-title">2D Marching Squares</span>
<span class="card-desc">Basic map rendering.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
<span class="tag tag-red">p5.js</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript p5" href="projects/warping_lines.html">
<span class="card-date">2 Apr 2020</span>
<span class="card-title">Müller-Lyer illusion</span>
<span class="card-desc">A JavaScript visualisation of the Müller-Lyer optical illusion.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
<span class="tag tag-red">p5.js</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript p5" href="projects/fourier_series.html">
<span class="card-date">27 Feb 2019</span>
<span class="card-title">Fourier series</span>
<span class="card-desc">Builds a square wave from sine components to show Fourier series in motion.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
<span class="tag tag-red">p5.js</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript p5" href="projects/ellipse_construction.html">
<span class="card-date">23 Feb 2019</span>
<span class="card-title">Constructing an ellipse</span>
<span class="card-desc">Shows how an ellipse can be constructed from a circle and radial lines, inspired by 3Blue1Brown.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
<span class="tag tag-red">p5.js</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript p5" href="projects/pi_approximation.html">
<span class="card-date">18 Mar 2018</span>
<span class="card-title">Calculating PI</span>
<span class="card-desc">Approximates pi using the Monte Carlo method with random points in a square and circle.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
<span class="tag tag-red">p5.js</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript p5" href="projects/oscillations_in_3d.html">
<span class="card-date">17 Dec 2017</span>
<span class="card-title">Oscillations in 3D</span>
<span class="card-desc">A JavaScript recreation of a Bees and Bombs animation.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
<span class="tag tag-red">p5.js</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
<a class="card project-card" data-tech="javascript p5" href="projects/maze_generation/index.html">
<span class="card-date">13 Nov 2017</span>
<span class="card-title">Maze generator</span>
<span class="card-desc">A p5.js maze generator using depth-first search and recursive backtracking.</span>
<span class="tag-row">
<span class="tag tag-green">JavaScript</span>
<span class="tag tag-red">p5.js</span>
</span>
<span class="card-arrow"></span>
</a>
</div>
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<h2>Let's <em>talk</em></h2>
<p>
I'm currently employed but open to the right opportunity — backend or full-stack, somewhere that
ships interesting things with people who care about their craft.
</p>
<p>
GitHub has the most complete picture of how I think. LinkedIn if you're formal. Either works.
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