Gavin Gregory
UI engineer and web developer
Marin County, California
I build user interfaces for the web and have for about a decade, most of it in TypeScript. Fast, accessible, and pleasant to use is the bar every time.
- Now
- Frontend lead at seats.aero
- Working with
- TypeScript, React, Vue, Next.js, Astro, Sanity
- Based in
- Marin County, CA, Pacific time. Before that Indianapolis; originally Asheville, NC.
What I do
Frontend and full-stack-ish engineering, with the UI as home turf. Most of my recent work is in TypeScript with React and Vue, on server-driven frameworks like Next.js and Astro, often on top of a headless CMS. I care about accessibility, performance budgets, and the unglamorous parts of a product that make it feel solid.
Currently
Leading the frontend at seats.aero, the award flight search tool. My consultancy, The Component Studio, is paused while seats.aero has my focus. Outside work I keep a side project or two going each year, mostly around points, travel, and tools for AI agents.
Work I like
- Design systems and component libraries that teams actually adopt
- Accessible, keyboard-friendly interfaces that hold up under real use
- Server-rendered sites on headless CMSes, with the content model done right
- Performance work: the unglamorous kind that shows up in the numbers
- Developer tooling, lately MCP servers and agent integrations
How I work
Most of my development runs through AI coding agents. Claude Code is my day-to-day harness, almost always on Claude Opus 5.5, and I use OpenAI's Codex with Sol and Astra for some of my paid work. Skills, both existing ones and ones I write, keep the work consistent and predictable from one session to the next.
Alongside that I run Hermes Agent, Nous Research's open-source agent, on a VPS with Sol 6. It helps manage content and images across my sites and draws on my Obsidian vault as a second brain. I tried Openclaw, Instinct, and Muse before settling on it. Hermes strikes the best balance between ease of use and room to tinker, and it's open source.
Selected work
- seats.aerofrontend lead
Award flight search. The interfaces I work on serve over a million people a month.
- seats.aero MCP serveropen source
Lets AI clients query the seats.aero award-travel API through the Model Context Protocol.
- points.creditside project
Tools for the points and miles obsessed.
- gav.landpersonal site
A personal wiki built with Astro and Sanity: posts, photos, and an auto-interlinked term graph.
- The Component Studioconsultancy, paused
Web development for enterprise-level applications and sites. On the back burner while seats.aero has my focus.