Rimote Media

Rimote Media is a digital agency in the Netherlands, and this is where I started. I came in as a student and left three years later as a full-time web designer and developer, having worked across a wide range of client projects: corporate sites, WooCommerce e-commerce builds, custom WordPress themes, and internal tooling.

The work was varied by nature: different industries, different briefs, different levels of technical complexity. Project managers handled client communication, which meant my job was to take the brief and deliver, design, build, test, hand over. Doing that repeatedly across different contexts, with real deadlines and real clients, is how you actually learn to work.

Responsive and mobile-first design was non-negotiable in every project. Not as a principle to follow but as a practical constraint, the sites needed to work everywhere, and making them work everywhere was my problem to solve.

What I built:

• Custom WordPress themes from Figma designs
• WooCommerce e-commerce solutions
• Child themes and maintainable plugin configurations
• Responsive layouts and mobile-first CSS
• Performance optimizations (caching, image compression, load times)

Stack:

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
• WordPress, WooCommerce, MySQL
• Figma, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Git, cPanel, FTP

Rimote gave me something that can't be replicated in a course or a side project: the chance to do real work, for real clients, with real stakes, early enough in my career that the lessons hit hard and stuck. My mentors there took a chance on me and gave me the space to show what I could do. Everything I know about building for the web, how to think about layout, how to approach a brief, how to write CSS that doesn't fall apart in six months, has its roots in those three years.