Sokdara
Open to work

Hey, I'm Neang Sokdara

I build beautiful, fast web apps — where design meets engineering.

quick intro

About me

I'm an MIS student at SETEC institute who likes building things end-to-end — from backend logic to the frontend they run on, almost called myself a fullstack? Most of my time goes into web apps, and now I start learning Spring boot, API to improve my backend skills.

Studying

Management Information Systems

Based in

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Focused on

Full-stack dev

Languages

Khmer & English

background

Education

My academic journey and qualifications.

Setec Institute

2023 — Present

Management Information System

Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems.

Setec Institute

2021-2022

Design

Foundation Year of Bachelor's Degree in Design

Hunsen Borey 100 Khnorng High School

2018 — 2021

High School Diploma

Graduated with honors, rank C in overall grade.

Sovannaphumi School

2015 — 2019

GEP

Completed General English Program Level 7

projects

Things I've built

Event Management System

A school web project — an event management system built with Laravel, handling registration and event data. Deployed on Render with Docker, including fixes for ephemeral storage so uploaded images persist across deploys.

PHPLaravelDockerBootstrap

Web-hosting on AWS EC2

Hosting my static web page on AWS EC2 with Ubuntu Server.

Ubuntu ServerNginxLinux

This Portfolio

This website built with Next.js, iOS inspired card design with a floating dock nav, entrance animations, all iterated and debugged from scratch.

Next.jsReactFramer Motion

toolbox

Skills & tech

JavaScript
React
Next.js
PHP
Laravel
Java
Spring Boot
Dart
Docker
Git
Nginx
Linux
MySQL
MikroTik
Tailwind
JavaScript
React
Next.js
PHP
Laravel
Java
Spring Boot
Dart
Docker
Git
Nginx
Linux
MySQL
MikroTik
Tailwind
JavaScript
React
Next.js
PHP
Laravel
Java
Spring Boot
Dart
Docker
Git
Nginx
Linux
MySQL
MikroTik
Tailwind
JavaScript
React
Next.js
PHP
Laravel
Java
Spring Boot
Dart
Docker
Git
Nginx
Linux
MySQL
MikroTik
Tailwind
Tailwind
MikroTik
MySQL
Linux
Nginx
Git
Docker
Dart
Spring Boot
Java
Laravel
PHP
Next.js
React
JavaScript
Tailwind
MikroTik
MySQL
Linux
Nginx
Git
Docker
Dart
Spring Boot
Java
Laravel
PHP
Next.js
React
JavaScript
Tailwind
MikroTik
MySQL
Linux
Nginx
Git
Docker
Dart
Spring Boot
Java
Laravel
PHP
Next.js
React
JavaScript
Tailwind
MikroTik
MySQL
Linux
Nginx
Git
Docker
Dart
Spring Boot
Java
Laravel
PHP
Next.js
React
JavaScript

self-hosting

Web-hosting on AWS EC2

Documenting my self-hosting journey — Ubuntu Server setup on AWS EC2, reverse proxying with Nginx, Docker deployments, and working around my school project.

6 videosWatch on YouTube

currently

Now learning

What I'm actively working through right now.

JavaSpring Boot

Spring Boot & REST APIs

Working through backend fundamentals, controllers, service layers, and REST API annotations.

In progressSchool
DartOOP

Dart & OOP fundamentals

Learning Dart's type system, null safety, and OOP patterns.

In progressSchool
NetworkingSchool

Flutter Self-learning

Part of a school project, learning how Flutter UI works, mapping from data.

In progressSelf-learn

extra

Extra stuff

Some additional things I want to share that i've learned from school.

Video Editing & Motion Design

Editing work across Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator — from cutting and color grading to transitions, effects, and motion graphics.

Premiere ProAfter EffectsPhotoshopIllustrator

Pizza Ads

A short promotional ad edit — pacing, sound design, and punchy cuts to sell the product fast.

Drift Car Show

A long-form drift car show edit focused on creative transitions and effects work throughout.

Opens on YouTube
ADOBEDesign

ADOBE fundamentals

Working through photoshop, illustrator, and after effects to learn the basics of design.

finishedSchool
DATA

System Analysis

Learning fundamentals of system analysis and design. Making use case diagrams, ERD diagrams and simplifying.

finishedSchool
PHPLaravelBootstrap

PHP & Laravel fundamentals

Part of a school program, learning how to use PHP and Laravel integrate with database. Click me to check it out!.

finishedSchool

say hello

Let's build something great