Carl Benedict Rain 

Summary

Carl Benedict Rain is a full-stack developer with over 10 years of professional experience building stunning web apps with technical accuracy, beautiful colors and typography. He has accolades from AGDA, Awwwards and interviews from The Brand Identity, Creative Boom and Creative Market. He also has an AMEB Grade 8 Piano certificate and is a student of Julian Ashton Art School.

Career History

Freelance Developer

Rain Foundry

Oct 2021Present

Rain Foundry (Website)

I implemented the Rain Foundry website that is a bespoke React solution where I would vendor my typefaces. It uses Stripe, Passport and has bespoke React components. It also features dreamy illustrations by Taieri Eve of Procreate.

Soul Patts

I built an ASX listed website in Next.JS and DatoCMS. It uses ISR and has various animated d3 Charts. It also has a custom CI/CD setup for its requirements.

Imogen Todd

Imogen Todd is a collaboration project with Slowrun wherein I implemented a very subdued website with subtle animations using GSAP. It is implemented in Sanity.

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Wonderful Media Group

Oct 2025Mar 2026

Millbray

Millbray is implemented in Sanity and has various subsites which the code was architected by me. It also has a design system that I translated from scratch using SCSS.

Aruma

Aruma is implemented using WordPress and I had the privilege to create the search query and the accessibility menu. I also created various blocks on the website.

Senior Front-End Developer

Levo Digital / Clemenger

Jun 2017Jun 2020

Adairs

I implemented various blocks and front-end for the bespoke eCommerce website for Adairs.

Myer Santaland

I implemented the landing, timeline and calendar form pages. It uses GSAP for the scrolling animations.

WoolQ

I implemented the front-end architecture in Angular Typescript and wired it up to a third-party API implemented by Levo Digital.

Mid Front-End Developer

I Quit Sugar

Apr 2015Apr 2017

I Quit Sugar Website

I implemented the front-end admin facing of the bespoke CMS and also maintained the legacy CMS of the 8-Week Program.

Education

Julian Ashton Art School

Apr 2025Present

Billy Blue College of Design

Diploma of Visual Communication

Jan 2017Nov 2017

University of Technology, Sydney

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Jan 2012Nov 2015

Australian Music Examinations Board

Grade 8 Piano For Leisure

Accolades

Articles

Colophon

Typeface set in Conacher

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