Jamstack Freelancer: Jere Huttunen
I have been developing Jamstack sites for 4 years now. My main frameworks are Next.js, Gatsby, and Astro.js. My main JavaScript library is React.
I freelance through my own company, Vaihe, a modern web development studio located in Finland.
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MD Logica is a medical marketing agency based in California.
Visit MD Logica: MDLogica.com
PurposeMed builds platforms that connect patients with specialized clinicians so they can receive compassionate healthcare from the comfort of their home.
We have built them now three sites: their company site PurposeMed, Frida, and Foria.
Visit Purposemed: PurposeMed.com
Buddy Healthcare develops an award-winning care coordination & patient engagement platform.
Visit Buddy Healthcare: BuddyHealthcare.com
Spotless laser is a skincare company with two physical locations in Canada, and an online store.
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Read case study: Bringing e-commerce to Jamstack for Spotless Laser
Visit Spotless: SpotlessLaser.com
WorkED provides unique learning experiences by providing programs that give meaningful insight to careers that those who are still looking for a career will appreciate.
Read case study: Building a highly scalable headless Jamstack site for WorkED
Visit WorkED: Worked.com
Butterfly is a London-based marketing consultant agency.
We built their site using a headless and static site generation technology.
Visit Butterfly: Butterfly.London
Lean Digital is a digital agency based in United States.
Visit Lean Digital Agency: LeanDigitalAgency.com
Sintrol is a global manufacturing and solution-offering company in the field of analyzers and measuring devices.
Visit Sintrol: Sintrol.com
M-XR is a UK-based company providing 3D scans technology and materials.
Visit M-XR: M-XR.com
ticketbro provides a mobile ticket booking system, we built their marketing site with focus on animations and interactivity.
Read case study: Building ticketbro’s marketing site with a focus on animations and interactivity
Visit ticketbro: ticketbro.com
Conduktor builds and manages an enterprise Apache Kafka interface platform.
We helped Conduktor create the foundation for their website back in 2021, which has gotten a design revamp since then.
Visit Conduktor: Conduktor.io
Ensemble helps businesses design, build and run advanced data and analytics solutions.
Visit Ensemble: EnsembleAnalytics.io
WA provides information on insurances and legalities in the Netherlands.
Read case study: Using JamStack to scale with WA.nl
Visit WA: WA.nl
Frida helps people with ADHD get the help they deserve by providing ADHD diagnosis, ongoing care and helpful articles based on ADHD information.
We built their whole website in a way that enables their marketing and content creation team to freely build pages and content without restrictions.
Visit Frida: TalkWithFrida.com
Hatchet is a digital agency based in Perth, Australia.
Visit Hatchet: Hatchet.com.au
BEN Energy is a software company that engages utility companies with residential clients.
Visit BEN Energy: BEN-Energy.com
Hailer develops and mainstains their own modular work management software and app
Visit Hailer: Hailer.com
What frameworks I specialize in
Next.js
I focus on Next's ability to generate static sites. My main focus with Next.js is on its performance, scalability, SEO, and maintainability.
Gatsby
I have been developing Gatsby sites since Gatsby v2. Gatsby is my main niche, which makes me very knowledgeable about it.
Astro.js
Astro is my latest addition to my choice of Jamstack tools. I love it, because it has allowed me to build the most performant sites of my career.
Featured clients
Winding Road Motorcars
Winding Road provides classic and rare motorcars in Vancouver, Canada.
I developed Winding Road's site using Next.js, Storyblok, and Shopify. The site uses static export everywhere, including the e-commerce shop, which makes the site incredibly fast and SEO-friendly.
Read case study: Coming soon
Visit Winding Road: WindingRoad.ca
ticketbro
Mobile ticket booking system ticketbro approached me with a design that was playful and professional at the same time, a design full of interactions and animations.
I built their website using Next.js and Storyblok CMS. The site is built using a modular block approach, meaning every part of the website is editable via the CMS.
Read case study: Building ticketbro’s marketing site with a focus on animations and interactivity
Visit ticketbro: ticketbro.com
Frida
Frida helps those suffering from ADHD by providing ADHD diagnosis, ongoing care, and helpful articles based on ADHD information.
I built their entire website in a way that everything on the site can be changed within their CMS of choice. No more asking developers for small changes, the content writers can do the changes themselves.
Visit Frida: TalkWithFrida.com
WorkED
WorkED builds and operates tailored summer and afterschool programs, in person and at scale for elementary and middle schools.
I built their website with a high focus on modularity. Components can be added anywhere, their background colors can be changed, font sizes can be changed, and custom blocks such as popups and buttons can be placed anywhere.
Read case study: Building a highly scalable headless Jamstack site for WorkED
Visit WorkED: Worked.com
Spotless Laser
Spotless Laser provides skin treatment at two locations in Canada, plus skin products via an eCommerce shop.
Headless Shopify combined with Jamstack, Gatsby. That's a powerful duo, and that's how I built their site. After I developed their new site, Spotless increased their conversion rate by 350%.
Read case study: Bringing e-commerce to Jamstack for Spotless Laser
Visit Spotless: SpotlessLaser.com
Foria
Foria provides virtual gender-affirming care and hormone therapy to the comfort of their customer's home.
I built their website with a focus on making the content as easy to edit as possible. The site uses Next.js and Storyblok.
Visit Foria: ForiaClinic.com
My development career
2018
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
I started my 4-year studies of Digital Communication in Helsinki at Metropolia University. As digital communication is very web-focused, website development and design were part of my studies during my first years.
2019
University of Cambridge entrepreneur program
I got accepted to an entrepreneur-boosting program at the University of Cambridge. The whole trip and accommodation were paid for by the program.
I started my own company and freelancing
I decided to start freelancing through my own company, Vaihe Media. My first client projects were WordPress sites and static HTML + CSS + JS sites.
2021
43-page-long Gatsby study
To finish my degree at Metropolia University, I wrote a 43-page-long thesis about how Gatsby can be utilized in static web development (in Finnish). It scored full 5/5 points, giving it the best possible grade.
University graduation
I finished my 4-year studies at Metropolia in just 3 years thanks to my hard work.
Now
Freelancing
I enjoy running my own company and don't plan on stopping. My main niches nowadays are freelancing with Next.js, Gatsby, and Astro.js.
What else I specialize in
Page speed optimization
I provide page speed consultation to bring sites up from 40-70 Lighthouse performance scores to 90+. I also build my sites to get around 95-100 performance score and to load the first paint in less than 1 second.
Technical SEO
I have a past in affiliate sites that relied on SEO, which has made me quite an expert in technical SEO. I provide technical SEO consultation to any kind of website.
Accessibility
I believe the web should be accessible to everyone, which is why I provide technical accessibility consultation. I also build my sites as accessible from the ground up.
Let's start our partnership
Contact via email: jere@vaihe.com
More about me and the Jamstack development I provide
About me
Hey, my name is Jere! I am 26 years old and I live in a small and quiet city in Finland. I provide development worldwide, so your location doesn't matter.
When I am not working, I am probably either bowling, cycling, cooking, skiing, gardening, or doing hobby projects.
I also do photography from time to time. I especially like to do astrophotography, I have taken some quite nice pictures of of the galaxies, star formations, and gasses in the nightsky.
My rates
I charge 55€/h for web development, but I usually prefer fixed prices on new projects. Contact me for a quote!
What headless CMS services or platforms I have used
I have used the following:
- Contentful
- Storyblok
- Dato CMS
- Prismic
- Agility
- Strapi
- Directus
- WordPress
- Shopify (for headless eCommerce)
My favorite CMS is Storyblok, or if you want self-hosted, then Directus.
Fullstack development
I'm mainly a frontend developer, but I do also provide fullstack development using JavaScript. Gatsby, Next.js and Astro.js all use Node.js under their hoods, which means that I have gotten quite familiar with Node.js. I have done things like logins/registering, file generation using Node Streams, custom image optimizations, and different API systems.
Can I design?
Usually my clients provide me the designs, but I do design some components for them from time to time.
I do design my own projects, for example this entire site you're viewing (vaihe.com) has been designed by me.