The engineer who asks "why" before "how"

Working at the intersection of engineering and leadership for a studio that builds products with VC-backed US startups. My work spans the full spectrum — from early-stage MVPs in Next.js and POCs in React Native to team augmentation on established web platforms, across fintech, entertainment, and AI-driven products. I still write production code daily, but increasingly my role is about raising the bar for the whole team: mentoring junior and mid-level developers, owning client communication, and establishing standards around code quality and delivery process that bring consistency to everything we ship.

A software house role that gave me rare breadth — I was placed across three distinct client engagements, each one pushing me further. I worked on a document management platform for a Swiss company, then on core feature development for a Finnish event management product. My most impactful chapter was with a US-based translation management company, where I became the lead developer and primary contributor to their internal design system. The system was adopted across every frontend product in the company. The defining project: a sweeping, company-wide design system overhaul — migrating hardcoded values, updating the color system, and rolling out a cohesive new implementation across the core business application. It was the kind of change that touches everything.

My first startup and my first time owning an entire frontend layer end-to-end. I was responsible for building and evolving the customer-facing platform for a personalized nutrition product — spanning two client-facing applications that handled everything from health data collection to supplement purchasing. By the end of my time at Sundose, I was the sole person responsible for all frontend development, having grown into full ownership of that domain.

Joined as a PHP developer working on LIBRUS's information and marketing platform — a gateway product serving millions of students, teachers, and parents across Poland. Midway through my tenure, I spearheaded the company's transition to modern frontend development by introducing React.js and Material UI, leading an experimental new module that extended the core product. I also mentored an intern through this process, marking my first step into a leadership role. This is where my identity shifted from backend developer to full-stack engineer.

My introduction to agency life and working with US-based clients. Beyond delivering web projects, I took on a mission that had lasting impact: modernizing the team's entire delivery process. I led the adoption of Laravel and Vue.js and co-created a project boilerplate that became the new standard for every client engagement that followed — dramatically cutting time-to-delivery on new projects.

Where it all began. My first commercial role gave me the foundation of professional software development — building an internal product on a custom PHP framework and learning what it truly means to write code that runs in production.