Zephyr Pixels — web development - Hi, I'm Matt. I build websites people are glad they own.
Zephyr Pixels is my web development studio: websites, web apps, and AI workflows for marketing teams, design studios, and enterprise brands — built to fit how your team already works.
Where I've worked
- Principal engineer
Fortivex
Ongoing principal-engineer role at a digital agency — architecture, code review, and the builds nobody else wants to estimate.
- Full build, embedded development
Blue Cadet
The experience-design agency brought me in to develop a full build, working alongside their producer, content, and design team — inside their process, on their timeline.
- Senior software engineer
The Motley Fool
Ongoing senior engineering contract on a content platform serving millions of readers.
Three ways to work with me
- For teams
Embedded development
A senior developer inside your marketing, design, or engineering team — overflow builds, CMS migrations, or a technical lead for a big launch. Billed hourly or as a monthly retainer.
- Design to deploy
Websites and web apps, fixed price
Hand me the whole thing. I write the code and bring in designers and writers I trust when the project needs them. Fast, accessible, 95+ Lighthouse, one price agreed up front.
- Advisory
Consulting
Architecture and code review, stack and CMS selection, performance and SEO audits, or ongoing technical advisory — a principal engineer on call without the hire.
Websites built to last
- 2026 · Moving On Up LLC
We Move Montana
Moving On Up, a Missoula moving company with 123+ five-star Google reviews, traded a 2000s-era BlueVoda site for a phone-first Astro build with 99–100 Lighthouse scores and a perfect agent-readiness score, made to turn the traffic it already earns into calls, texts, and quotes.
- 2024 · Quality Pump Service
Made in Montana for Montanans
Quality Pump Service, family-run well pump specialists in Potomac Montana, partnered with me to build a professional lead-generating website.
- 2024 · Transcend Mind and Body
Elevate yourself
Transcend Mind & Body hypnotherapy practice needed a compelling website to introduce their services to the Missoula community with online booking.
Something different
Web App Development · Headless CMS · Video Automation
Chipter
Chipter is my own product: a chip-review site with the ambitions of a media company and none of the staff. An editor writes the review, and the platform turns it into the article, platform-sized videos, a newsletter, and social posts.
It’s also where I find out how far a content platform can go when video, AI, and email live inside the CMS instead of being bolted on the side.
One review becomes
- the article
- platform-sized videos (Remotion)
- a newsletter
- social posts
- Open source
Sanity Resend plugin
The plugin that turns Sanity into an email platform: a visual email builder, audience lists, and sending through Resend, all inside the Studio. I gave a 25-minute talk walking through it.
Montana businesses
McKay Painting, Montana Wildlife Federation, Kiki Glass, MyWorkBalance, Hufford Homestead, Truthbomb Social, Quality Pump Service, Kootenai Organics, Copilot CBD, Phish directory, Transcend Mind & Body, Bar Bangers Motorcycle Club.
Writing
The Chip Review Site I Waited 14 Years to Build
In 2011 I couldn't find a good chip review. Christmas 2025, I built one. What building Chipter taught me about content platforms, AI voice, and automation.
On-Brand AI Landing Pages with Sanity Context
An open-source Sanity template where marketing owns the rules AI follows to write landing pages. Edit a rule in Studio and the next page follows it.
The Pre-Migration Checklist for Sanity
Everything to lock down before you run your first Sanity migration — content audits, schema design, backups, dry runs, and a rollback plan — so the migration itself is the boring part.
Tell me about your project.
Every message comes straight to me, and I write every reply myself. No sales team, no ticket queue.