Industry veteran and founder of Digital Nature with over 20 years building for the web. Specialist in interactive 3D with Three.js and React Three Fiber, alongside modern full-stack applications with React, Next.js, and Node.js.
Shane has spent two decades shipping web software—from community platforms and JAMstack marketing systems to browser-native 3D that rivals desktop applications. As founder of Digital Nature he stays hands-on: architecture, implementation, performance, and client communication in one senior practitioner rather than a diluted delivery chain.
His defining technical focus is interactive 3D on the web: product configurators, physics-backed simulation, multiplayer sessions, and WebXR experiences built with Three.js, React Three Fiber, Rapier, and modern React tooling. Flagship public work includes 4x4 Builder, a vehicle customization platform with 100+ options, WASM physics, and VR support—all in the browser.
Beyond 3D, Shane builds AI-aware products (including LLMDB), headless and hybrid sites, and custom web applications. The through line is the same: high performance, clean architecture, and interfaces that respect real users on real devices.
Expertise
Deep focus areas you can hire for directly—each backed by production work and service pages.
Production WebGL scenes, performance budgets, asset pipelines, and maintainable R3F architecture.
Option graphs, shareable config URLs, commerce hooks, and configurators that survive real catalogs.
Custom assistants, RAG, and model API integration inside real React applications—not bolted-on widgets.
React, Next.js, Gatsby, Node.js, and headless CMS—from marketing sites to multi-tenant apps.
Portfolio
Case studies that reflect the stack and standards Digital Nature ships under Shane's lead.
Terrain Rider is a physics-based online mountain biking game built entirely for the browser. React Three Fiber and Rapier power custom bike handling, real-world streamed terrain, runtime bike configuration, procedural rider animation, ragdoll crashes, and multiplayer riding across a global mountain landscape.
Read case study →ThreeMesh is a free browser-based 3D modeler built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Three.js, and a custom geometry engine. It brings push/pull modeling, precision inference snapping, solid tools, groups, components, scenes, local-first storage, and STL, OBJ, and GLB export into a zero-install web application.
Read case study →LLMDB is a comprehensive database platform for AI language models, designed to democratize access to information about LLMs. Built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and Zod, the platform provides researchers, developers, and AI enthusiasts with standardized data, interactive visualizations, and detailed comparisons of language models across the industry.
Read case study →Writing
Technical notes on configurators, React Three Fiber, WebXR, and modern web architecture.
Shipping WebXR is not just calling requestSession. How we build browser VR/AR with @react-three/xr—input, fallbacks, performance, and product flows that still work on flat screens.
How we combine React Three Fiber with Rapier’s WebAssembly physics engine for vehicle dynamics, collisions, and interactive simulation—without giving up a declarative React scene graph.
A production 3D product configurator is more than a Three.js demo. Here is the architecture we use—option graphs, URL state, asset budgets, and React Three Fiber scene design—drawn from shipping real configurators like 4x4 Builder.
JAMstack development involves creating a template in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and managing content using either a CMS or in static markdown files. You can then use a static site generator such as Gatsby or Hugo to build your website.
Engagement
Have a project that needs senior technical direction and hands-on delivery? Tell Shane what you're building and where you need help.
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