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International Permitting and Regulatory Associate

Completed legal due diligence for 5+ renewable energy projects across Latin America and Eastern Europe. Collaborated with C-suite executives to structure fund formation and investor data rooms, supporting capital raises up to $100 million. Conducted regulatory impact assessments delivering strategic recommendations to mitigate risks. Project Duration: 2025-2026

Client: Blue Orb, New York, Remote

The Brief

I wanted a starter theme that was genuinely ready to launch — not a boilerplate that still requires hours of setup. The goal was simple: clone it, change the text, go live. Everything else should already be done.

Most Astro starters are developer-focused scaffolding. Astro Rocket is different — it ships as a complete, styled website aimed at designers, freelancers, and anyone who needs a portfolio or marketing site without starting from scratch.

What I Built

Astro Rocket is built on top of Velocity by Southwell Media, which provided a strong foundation — a well-structured Astro boilerplate with a solid design system. I extended it substantially:

  • 12 colour themes switchable live in the header with no rebuild required
  • 57+ components across UI, patterns, layout, blog, landing, and SEO categories
  • Auto-generated logo and favicon from the site name — no design tools needed
  • Typing effect in the hero section
  • Dark mode with sessionStorage persistence (resets on new tab by design)
  • Scroll progress bar, parallax grid, and full animation suite
  • Content collections for blog, projects, authors, FAQs, and tech stack
  • RSS feed, sitemap, and full JSON-LD structured data

Design Decisions

Theme switching without rebuilds. Velocity required editing a CSS import file and rebuilding to change themes. Astro Rocket uses CSS custom properties scoped to data-theme attributes, so switching is instant — no server round-trip, no rebuild.

sessionStorage over localStorage for dark mode. A portfolio site should always show its best face. With localStorage, a returning visitor might see the wrong mode if they changed it on a whim. sessionStorage resets on each new tab, so every first impression is intentional.

Auto-generated branding. Logo badges and favicons are generated at runtime from the site name and active brand colour. Cloners don’t need Figma or Illustrator to get a polished result.

Results

  • Lighthouse scores of 95+ across all categories
  • Zero JavaScript shipped by default (Astro islands architecture)
  • Submitted to the official Astro themes directory
  • Open source under the MIT licence

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