Embedded Systems
FM Radio Module
A functional FM radio built from an Arduino Due and a TEA5756 module — tune stations, read the frequency live, and hear it through an amp and speaker.
Code
About · 人物
Marco Hope
Design Engineer
I design products and build them in code — the interface, and the system behind it.
Co-founder & CTO of Halix · Software Engineering @ York
Toronto, ON
Skills and tools
Tools · 道具
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- React
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- GSAP
- Node.js
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Stripe
- Vercel
- Git
- GitHub
- Figma
- Electron
- shadcn/ui
- C++
- Arduino
Work · 制作
Selected work.
A few things I’ve designed & built — from a Slack product for agency account managers to this very site.
In development
Main project · 主作
Halix Solutions
Client-Success Assistant for Agencies
A Slack assistant for marketing-agency account managers. It matches calendar meetings to clients, DMs a briefing before each call, and tracks commitments and renewals. Co-founded with Joshua Mohammed-Ali — as CTO, I lead product, architecture, and engineering.
Shipped
Latest build · 新作
Honey Notes
Local-First Meeting Note Taker
A local-first meeting note taker that doesn't join calls as a bot — it records the mic and the machine's system audio as two separate tracks, transcribes locally with whisper.cpp, and summarizes on demand. Built in three days as Halix Solutions' internal tool.
Live
Featured build · 秀作
The 6ix Aesthetics
Premium Med Spa Website
A premium med spa site for a fictional Toronto clinic, built to prove a “$30k agency” feel comes from restraint — one motion identity, generous whitespace, and a single conversion path. Fully static, Lighthouse 98 desktop.
Live
Signature build · 名作
Nous Sommes Un
Restaurant Web Experience
A high-end restaurant site — Paris & Toronto — that sells atmosphere in seconds without sacrificing speed: cinematic, photography-heavy, and dark, built solo end-to-end with a full design-engineer pipeline.
Live
This very site · 雅
This Portfolio
Portfolio Site
The site you're on — a motion-led portfolio designed and built from scratch with Next.js, GSAP, and interactive Spline 3D scenes.
Live
Quiet build · 静
The Field of Roses
Interactive Single-Page Experience
A quiet, single-page reminder that flowers — and people — bloom at different times: a night field of roses that glows where your cursor touches it. A designed object, not a product — no backend, no tracking, ~9 kB of page JavaScript.
Bio
Profile · 紹介
Design with intent. Ship with discipline.
I'm a design engineer in Toronto. I work from the problem outward: shape the product, design the interaction, then build it in code — the interface and the system behind it. I care how a thing feels, and I want the motion and interaction to be correct: fast, accessible, reduced-motion-aware.
I co-founded Halix Solutions with Joshua Mohammed-Ali and I'm its CTO. Halix is a Slack assistant for marketing-agency account managers; I lead the product, architecture, and engineering, and I write the codebase by directing AI coding agents. Alongside it I build my own tools, like Honey Notes, and small interaction studies in Craft.
Journey
Journey · 歩み
Mar 2026 — Present
Co-Founder & CTO
Halix Solutions
Lead product, architecture & engineering for a Slack assistant for agency account managers.
Jan — Mar 2026
Software Engineer Intern
Deeds Leisure
Desktop lead-gen tool — ~75% less manual prospecting.
Oct 2024 — May 2025
UX/UI Design & Digital Marketing Intern
Minoa Home
Shopify UX / UI / SEO audit + content strategy.
2022 — Present
B.Eng. Software Engineering (Hons.)
York University
Engineering competition placements (design + debate).
Awards and certifications
Awards · 受賞
- York Engineering Competition — 2nd Place, Junior Design (2023)
- York Engineering Competition — 3rd Place, Senior Design (2024)
- York Engineering Competition — 2nd Place, Debate (2023)
Certifications · 資格
- AI-Powered Software & System Design — DeepLearning.AI (2026)
- Crash Course on Python — Google (2026)
- Standard First Aid with CPR-C — Lifesaving Society (2023)
Engineering roots
Engineering roots · 原点
Where it started — at the wiring.
Before the web I built hardware. That habit of caring how a thing actually works, down to the signal, is still how I approach an interface.
Arduino + MATLAB
Auto Plant Watering System
An Arduino + MATLAB rig that reads soil moisture and waters a plant automatically — only when the soil actually runs dry.
Work · 制作
Things I’ve designed & shipped.
From Halix Solutions — a client-success assistant for agencies built from scratch — to 7 more builds in the catalogue.
View the workContact · 連絡
Open to design engineering rolesLet’s talk.
Hiring a design engineer, or building a product where design and code need to stay close? Send me some context.
Get in touch終 · End
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