Senior frontend engineer.
AI-native. Available for select consulting.

8+ years building high-performance React, Next.js & TypeScript applications for fintech, legal, media, and healthcare — with Claude Code and Cursor as a daily practice, not a buzzword. I'm Nick Virden, and this is Virden Web Design.

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// case studies

Selected work

Proof, not adjectives — proprietary architecture, public client outcomes, and one project built specifically to demonstrate agent-harness engineering.

flagship

Staris AI Showcase — agentic rewrite of a legal eligibility questionnaire

The agent is architecturally prevented from hallucinating a legal outcome — every result is tool-derived, every reasoning step is persisted for a full audit trail. Built for a real technical interview; MIT-licensed.

Next.jsFastAPIPydantic AISSE

agent_run → tool: assess_eligibility()
  └─ agent_step [reasoning, persisted]
  └─ agent_step [tool_call: deterministic]
  └─ result: EligibilityReport
     traversed_path: required ✓

WipeRecord

+47% lead conversion, onboarding cut from 4 days to 1, for a legal-tech client — later rebuilt agentically (see Staris AI).

ReactNode.jsSalesforce

Feedtrail

Greenfield analytics platform adopted by major US & European hospital systems, built 0-to-1.

ReactReduxNivo

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