About
Taylor Hasal.
Every role I’ve held came with a website that needed work. Eventually I stopped waiting for someone else to fix it.
The background
I started as a photographer, building Hasal Photo into a real business, shooting corporate events, headshots, and photo booths across the Central Valley. Clients kept asking if I could help with their websites too. For a while, the honest answer was “sort of.”
In 2018 I completed the Hackreactor Software Engineering Bootcamp and the answer became yes, properly. Since then I’ve worked as a communications coordinator, web and media specialist, and Executive Director of the Manteca Chamber of Commerce. Every one of those jobs had a website that needed attention, and I was always the person in the room who wanted to fix it.
Photography and web development have more in common than people expect. Both are about seeing what a client can’t quite articulate yet, then building something that makes them say yes, that’s it. The medium changed. The process didn’t.
What I’ve built
Custom web apps for gyms, photographers, and nonprofits. Member portals and intake systems for organizations that had outgrown Google Forms. Discord bots for gaming servers and sports communities. Marketing sites for businesses that need something real, not a template with the logo swapped out.
The projects I find most satisfying are the ones where someone has a real operational problem: a spreadsheet that’s getting unwieldy, a process that only works because someone remembers how it works. I get to replace it with something that just runs.
How I work
You talk to me directly. Not an account manager, not a subcontractor. I ask a lot of questions before writing a line of code. I’d rather spend a week getting the brief right than build the wrong thing confidently.
I like the problem-solving part. And I especially like the moment a site goes live and starts doing its job.