Front-end modernization · Design systems
I modernize aging front-ends and ship design systems teams can actually maintain.
Manco Labs is the solo practice of a front-end specialist with full-stack depth. I take real ownership of your product, work without the overhead of an in-house hire, and document everything so you're never locked in.
Three ways to work together.
/ 01 · ServicesModernization Assessment & Migration Roadmap
Before you commit budget to a full rebuild, this engagement tells you exactly what needs to change and why. I audit your stack and UX, recommend a target framework, and hand back a prioritized roadmap.
- Stack & UX audit
- Framework recommendation
- Phased, prioritized migration plan
Design System Build & Rollout
A shared visual foundation: every color, spacing value, and component defined once and applied consistently across your product, with documentation so your team can own and extend it without coming back to me.
- Colors, spacing & component library
- Brand-aligned UI standards
- Documentation & team handoff
Embedded Senior Dev & AI Advisory
Ongoing full-stack development without the commitment of a full-time hire. I embed into your team, ship features front to back, and give practical guidance on where AI actually fits in your product.
- Feature development, front to back
- Ongoing embedded development
- Practical AI guidance
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Background
/ 03 · AboutDesign taste, real engineering depth.
Most front-end people lean one way: design or systems. I've shipped both. At Cervey, I led the modernization of a product suite, set the design standards that lifted UX across the platform, planned the framework migration, and documented the whole system so the team could maintain it.
Before that, at Emergent Enforcement Solutions, I built a CJIS-compliant full-stack application end to end: real backend, cloud, and integration work, not just interfaces. That combination is what I bring to Manco Labs: front-end you can be proud of, on top of engineering you can rely on.
Led modernization of the product suite and established platform-wide design standards. Evaluated and planned framework migration, implemented a unified, brand-aligned design system, produced thorough documentation, and contributed to AI-integration roadmapping.
Built a full-stack application for processing police lidar-gun video so CJIS-compliant workers could adjudicate violations. Engineered FTP servers to relay video to cloud storage, parsed manufacturer DLLs, integrated a DMV license-plate query API with regex auto-fill, and built the adjudicator interface. Django, PostgreSQL, and AWS, working alongside a junior developer.
Get in touch
Have an aging front-end? Let's fix it.
Tell me a little about your product and which kind of help fits. I read every message and reply personally.