Rohith, a Senior Application Engineer at Oracle, entered the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge presented by Google AI. He built a personal site that showcases his Java, Spring Boot, and cloud migration expertise while keeping the design clean and functional.

The site, built with React, Vite, Tailwind CSS, and Antigravity, offers a Standard scroll view and a geeky Terminal Mode where users type commands like /experience. An AI‑style ChatBot guides visitors, and a dark/light toggle keeps the interface fresh.

Deploying the code exposed a series of DevOps hiccups: SSH key conflicts, GitHub Pages serving the wrong folder, Vite’s base path mismatch, and Google Cloud Run’s port and build‑context errors. Rohith resolved each by adjusting CI/CD workflows, Dockerfiles, and environment variables.

The exercise demonstrates that a polished front‑end must pair with robust deployment pipelines. By mastering both, Rohith shows how a single codebase can thrive on GitHub Pages and Google Cloud Run. Future readers can learn from his troubleshooting steps and apply them to their own projects.