About Me | GTREF

Student & Builder Palmerston North, NZ

Kia Ora, I'm GTREF

I am a Year 11 student at St Peter's College Palmerston North with an eager passion for software engineering, systems design, and web architecture.

I enjoy exploring both low-level mechanics and cutting-edge frontend interfaces—ranging from crafting compiled systems in C and C++, to orchestrating rich, high-performance web applications using modern web ecosystems.

Primary Stacks

Web frameworks & component architectures I build with

Next.jsSSR / SSG

Full-Stack & React Framework

Production-grade React framework with SSR, App Router, and server actions.

React.jsUI / SPA

Frontend UI Library

Component-driven reactive web applications with stateful hooks and fast UI updates.

Languages & Technologies

A comprehensive toolkit spanning low-level, web, scripting, and shell

CLow-level / Systems

Memory management, algorithms & hardware interfacing

C++Systems & OOP

High performance computing, data structures & object design

PythonScripting / Backend

Data processing, automations, and quick tool prototyping

HTMLMarkup & Structure

Semantic, accessible HTML5 layouts

CSSStyling & Design

Modern Flexbox, CSS Grid, animations & responsive styling

JSScripting & Frontend

Dynamic client-side interactivity, async programming

TSTyped Web Development

Strict type safety for scalable, reliable codebases

PHPServer-side Web

Backend web scripts and server rendering

BashShell Scripting

Unix environment automation, pipelines, and CLI tooling

PowerShellTask Automation

Windows scripting, administrative workflows, and automation

AstroModern Web Architecture

Content-focused static site generation and zero-JS islands

whoami.sh

$ cat ~/gtref/summary.json

{
  "name": "GTREF",
  "role": "Year 11 Student & Developer",
  "institution": "St Peter's College Palmerston North",
  "primary_stacks": ["Next.js", "React.js"],
  "languages": [
    "C", "C++", "Python", "HTML", "CSS",
    "JS", "TS", "PHP", "Bash", "PowerShell", "Astro"
  ],
  "status": "Learning, experimenting & shipping code"
}