Gabriel Gonzalez

Building Next.js, Sanity and WordPress websites at Wonderful, a Sydney and Melbourne digital agency, alongside a team of designers, strategists and project managers.

• Lead developer for millbray.com, the digital launch of a new over-50s lifestyle brand: a modular, Sanity-powered Next.js site with enquiry and conversion journeys built to scale across new precincts and campaigns.
• Lead developer for the Aruma website redesign, a national disability service provider: a mobile-first, WCAG-compliant WordPress build on Bedrock, with a fully custom coded theme and component library, a Service Finder, accessible property listings and a simplified enquiry flow.
• Won four Gold and two Silver 2026 Communicator Awards: Aruma took Gold for Best Non-Profit Website, Best User Experience and Best Features and Navigation; Millbray took Gold for Best User Interface and Silver for Best Visual Appeal and Best Property Website.
• Full technical reviews of the James Cook University website, consulting on optimisation, accessibility and performance, plus an end-to-end analytics review and refactoring.
• Use Claude and AI-assisted tooling as part of the day-to-day development workflow, from scaffolding Sanity schemas and components to code review.

Working as the sole developer in the company, along with a team of designers and project managers.

• Developed End the Gender Pay Gap, a web quiz game addressing gender pay gap inequality, for WGEA, the corresponding Federal Government Agency.
• Won Awwwards Honorable Mention and WD Favourite Web Design for wecreatedifference.com.
• Developed suntoryoceania.com, the website for a new multi-beverage conglomerate that includes brands like Pepsi, Boss Coffee and V Energy. Built a system of custom Gutenberg components to facilitate content management while preserving a modern and complex frontend.
• Managed servers, proposed and executed a migration to host the internal staging websites in AWS instances and proposed and implemented company-wide process improvements. Implemented CI/CD for staging and production environment workflows, both in GithHub and BitBucket. Provided clients with technical guidance and liaised with ther IT teams as needed.