# About Matthew Rhoads / Zephyr Pixels

> Zephyr Pixels is a one-person web development studio: Matthew Rhoads, developer and designer, based in Missoula, Montana. Official Sanity Partner. Hand-coded, high-performance websites and custom headless CMS solutions.

## Who I am

I'm Matthew Rhoads — Missoula-born, Sanity-certified, building for the web since 2019 with ten-plus years of full-stack experience. I've built for conservation groups, family farms, local trades, and enterprise Sanity teams, and I still answer my own email. I do the building myself; when a project needs a dedicated designer or copywriter I bring in people I trust and personally run point. Either way, clients deal with one person start to finish.

Day to day I also work as a principal engineer at **Fortivex** and a senior software engineer for a national financial-media brand, and I've built alongside the team at **Blue Cadet**. That same standard goes into every Zephyr Pixels build.

## Expertise

- Full-stack web development (Next.js, React, TypeScript)
- Sanity CMS — custom studios, plugins, migrations (Official Sanity Partner)
- UI/UX design
- E-commerce solutions
- Performance optimization (95+ Lighthouse on every build)

## What you can hold me to

1. **Loyalty** — long partnerships over quick wins; you'll always know where to find me.
2. **Trust** — if I say I'll do it, I do it. No surprise invoices, no scope drift.
3. **Compassion** — deadlines slip, priorities shift; I work with you, not against you.
4. **Craft** — hand-coded, performance-audited, accessible.

## Contact

- Email: hello@zephyrpixels.dev
- How I work: [/process.md](/process.md)
- Services: [/sanity-services.md](/sanity-services.md)
- Work: [/case-studies.md](/case-studies.md)