Solopreneur, builder & architect from Bielsko-BiaΕa, Poland π΅π± Shipping stuff to the web since 2008 (started freelancing at 16), which in JavaScript years makes me roughly 400.
- ποΈ I take products from "hear me outβ¦" to production: architecture, frontend, backend, CI/CD, hosting, analytics
- π§ Ex-Head of Front-end & Board Member at Snowdog, ex-Tech Lead at Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront)
- π Open source since before it was a personality trait on LinkedIn
- π₯ Bun maximalist, React skeptic, hot takes on X
- π PhD in Memology (thesis still under peer review)
| π οΈ Frontools + Blank SASS | Created both. 1M+ downloads, the foundation of countless Magento 2 stores. Because LESS was a choice, not a destiny. |
| π Astro β 64k | Brought full Vue support to Astro back in the early days. You're welcome, Vue people. |
| π Vue Storefront β 11k | Core team member, got Snowdog in as one of the first partners, later led the team building an enterprise API orchestration layer (multi-source GraphQL under 500 ms, cold cache). |
| 𧱠Magento | Top 50 community contributors in 2017, helped lay the groundwork for PWA Studio with Magento & Google, Magento Open Source Task Force member. |
| π 1,200+ PRs | 500+ merged into other people's repos: Vue, Alpine, Astro, Magento, Strapi, Rocket.Chat, oxc, WXT and friends. |
20+ talks across Europe and the US, including Magento Imagine 2017 in Las Vegas (the big one, 2,000+ attendees), Meet Magento in Poland, Germany, Spain, Croatia and Romania, MageTitans Valencia, Reacticon Eindhoven, Nomadmage and a pile of local meetups. I also curated the frontend track of Meet Magento Poland 2018, so yes, I got the creator of Nuxt on stage.
"He works hard, leads by example, and gets things done. [β¦] if by any chance he doesn't know something, he isn't afraid to admit it." β someone who reported to me and still voluntarily wrote this
2008 freelancing β getting local businesses "on the internet" (it was a thing)
2010 Hydro-Marko β wired automation for sewage pump stations, then built their SCADA web UI
(yes, early in my career I was literally in the π© business)
2013 vollblutunternehmer β Rails & Spree frontends for startups
2014 Snowdog β Front-end Dev β Lead (eobuwie.pl) β Head of Front-end β Board Member
2022 Alokai (VSF) β Tech Lead, aka PM + EM + backend + frontend + DevOps in one trench coat
2023 solopreneur β building my own products, and helping others build theirs
- π§ iglo.tech: a self-hosted stack for running a product solo. iglo.base (PocketBase ported to Bun + TypeScript), iglo.email, iglo.monitor, iglo.code
- π¬ Comments Tools & YouTube Comments Downloader: YouTube comment analysis at scale
- ποΈ Alpine.js Pro: devtools for Alpine.js, Livewire & friends
- π Paszomistrz: turns milk test reports into feeding plans for dairy herds. Yes, cows. Full-stack means full stack.
- π¬ Cringe-o-meter: rates the cringe on your LinkedIn feed. A public service.
- 𧩠Small useful bits: astro-electron, astro-bun-adapter and n8n-nodes-pocketbase-admin
π§ Off the keyboard: 3D printing, smart home and reviving old hardware. Naturally, each hobby ends up with its own repo: klipper-bed-mesh-editor, a better vacuum map card for Home Assistant, and a fix for the ASUS Xonar U1 volume knob on Windows 11.
Call me when a project needs someone who sees the whole picture, glues product, design and engineering together, and still ships the code. Architecture reviews, frontend/e-commerce rescue missions, a 0 β 1 product build, or just a second opinion. Let's talk.
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