Customer service taught me to stay present
Busy shifts involve questions, incorrect orders, missing items, changing priorities, and situations that need a manager. I have learned to listen, respond clearly, and keep moving.
About Marco
I’m learning how to turn curiosity into useful work.
I’m a bilingual customer-service professional in Los Angeles with growing experience in web design, troubleshooting, technical projects, and organizing information.
What matters to me
Clear communication, practical solutions, honest growth, and technology that respects the person using it.
StyleCalm + directFriendly without pretending to know everything
WorkOrganized + quickEspecially when the next step is clear
GrowthCurious + teachableReady to build stronger professional experience
My direction
People, organization, and technology overlap more than they seem.
Personal projects gave me a technical outlet
Websites, domains, hosting, basic device repair, PC setup, and interface experiments let me learn by making real things instead of only reading about them.
Now I want to grow professionally
I am focused on entry-level Help Desk and administrative support roles where patience, bilingual communication, organization, and technical curiosity can become stronger workplace skills.
How this site was built
The portfolio is also one of the projects.
MarcoDaPanda.com is a hand-built static website designed to stay understandable, testable, and inexpensive to host.
Production path
Content and visual identity are separated from the protected interaction engine.
The site uses semantic HTML, layered CSS, and strict TypeScript. A release command checks types, runs the automated behavior suite, builds content-hashed production assets, validates every local reference, and verifies that the locked glass engine was not accidentally changed.
01Content + semantic HTML
02Layered responsive CSS
03Strict TypeScript
0444 behavior tests
05Netlify dist build
- HTML
- CSS
- TypeScript
- esbuild
- Vitest
- jsdom
- Netlify
- Local-first static hosting
Checksums protect the liquid-glass CSS and transition engine while newer features live in isolated editable layers.
Netlify receives a dedicated distribution folder with minified, content-hashed assets rather than the source and test files.
Focus handling, reduced motion, reduced transparency, readable fallbacks, and touch-friendly layouts are part of the system.
The site remains a portable static project because the current goals do not require accounts, a database, or a large CMS.
The two sides
MarcoDaPanda and iquit belong together—but do different jobs.
MarcoDaPanda is the practical side
This is where I show professional work, explain what I contributed, share the skills I am building, and make it easy for employers or collaborators to understand me.
iquit is the creative side
iquit by iquit studio explores identity, emotion, visual storytelling, and the tension between softness and rebellion. It is a space to create without forcing every idea to become a business immediately.
The connection is honest expression
Both sides are about clarity: one helps people understand what I can do, and the other helps me express ideas that are harder to explain directly.
Selected work
See what I have built.
Explore Noted and the Gilberto Diaz Gardening Services website as two different examples of practical digital work.
View workCreative world
Enter iquit.
Move from clear glass into the darker visual identity of iquit by iquit studio.
Explore iquit