I'm David Rodrigues, a front-end developer based in Seoul. For almost two years I taught front-end development at wcoding — walking absolute beginners from their first HTML tag to a deployed React project. I still do both: teach, and build.
<!-- week 1: your first page -->
<section class="hero">
<h1>Hello, I built this.</h1>
<button onclick="ship()">
Deploy it
</button>
</section>
// week 12: same student, a real appTeaching
Beginners welcome
Stack
React + Tailwind
Shipped on
Netlify & Vercel
What I do
Whether you're starting from zero or you need a front-end built, the work is the same: fundamentals, clean code, and something real at the end of it.
1:1 or small-group lessons in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React — in English, at your pace, with homework you actually want to finish.
Marketing sites, portfolios and small web apps built with React and Tailwind — responsive, accessible, and deployed for you.
Bootcamp-style syllabi, workshop decks and onboarding tracks for teams that need non-developers to get comfortable with code.
Selected work
Teaching
At wcoding — a coding school in Seoul taught entirely in English — I taught front-end development to students arriving from completely different careers: marketing, law, hospitality, design. Most of them had never opened a terminal.
How I teachJun 2022 — Feb 2024 · Seoul
wcoding
Taught front-end fundamentals and guided student projects through the school's intensive and introductory tracks.
Before that · wcoding
Graduated the full-stack intensive web program myself — which is exactly why I know where beginners get stuck.
2019 — now · github.com/drodrigues21
Client sites, React apps and small vanilla builds — the habit of shipping in public, kept since 2019.
Tell me where you're starting from. I'll tell you honestly what's possible — and what it will take.
Six builds from my GitHub — client sites, React practice and small vanilla apps. Every card links to the real repository, and to the live deploy where one exists.
No projects in this category yet.
Small experiments, older practice builds and forks included — they're all on GitHub.
I spent just under two years teaching front-end development at wcoding in Seoul, where every class is taught in English. Students arrived from completely different careers — and left with a deployed project and code they could explain line by line.
01 / Start from zero
You've never written code. We start with the browser, a text editor and one page — then grow it week by week until it's something you're proud to show.
02 / Switching careers
You have a plan and a deadline. We work backwards from the job you want: the skills, the portfolio pieces, and the vocabulary to talk about them.
03 / Already coding
You can write HTML and CSS but React still feels like magic. We debug your actual project together and replace copy-paste with understanding.
The path
The same arc I used in class, adapted to how fast you move. No lesson ends without working code on your screen.
Semantic HTML, the box model, Flexbox and Grid. You rebuild a real page layout instead of a sandbox demo.
HTML · CSS · responsive basics
Variables, functions, arrays, DOM events, fetch. Small interactive apps — a counter, a quiz, something that calls an API and renders results.
JavaScript ES6+ · DOM · APIs
React fundamentals: components, props, state, effects, routing. Then Tailwind so your UI stays consistent instead of improvised.
React · Tailwind CSS · routing
Git branching, code review, deploying to Netlify or Vercel with a custom domain. The last class is a live URL with your name on it.
Git · GitHub · CI/CD · deploys
How I teach
React on top of weak JavaScript just moves the confusion somewhere else. We fix the base first.
I explain, then you type. Most of the session is you writing code while I watch and nudge.
Bad naming and dead code get called out — with a reason and a rewrite you can learn from.
A project that only exists on your laptop doesn't count. We push, we deploy, we share the link.
Formats
Weekly sessions built around your goal, with homework reviewed between calls. The fastest option if you're impatient in a good way.
Two to six people, same roadmap, shared review time. Works well for friends, study groups and small teams starting from scratch.
You already have a project. I become the reviewer and the rubber duck — architecture, code review, deployment, debugging.
Every plan is quoted per person, per goal — no fixed price list, because no two starting points are the same. Tell me yours in the form and I'll reply with a concrete plan.
Bring your goal, your laptop and your questions. I'll bring the roadmap.
I'm a front-end developer based in the Seoul area, working in English and online. My route into code went through a coding bootcamp — I graduated wcoding's full-stack intensive web program, then stayed on the other side of the desk as their front-end instructor.
From June 2022 to February 2024 I taught front-end development to beginners: people with zero technical background who needed the fundamentals explained clearly, without shortcuts or hand-waving. Doing that for nearly two years sharpened the thing I care most about — being able to take something complicated and make it feel obvious.
Outside the classroom I build. Marketing sites, portfolios, small React apps — most of it visible in the 55 repositories on my GitHub. I like the unglamorous parts: naming things well, keeping the CSS organised, getting the deploy pipeline green.
Toolkit
Hire me
Beginner starting from zero, someone stuck halfway through a React tutorial, or a business that needs a landing page built properly — send a short message and I'll reply with an honest plan, timeline and scope.
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