'16
First commit
Broke a friend's website. Got asked to rebuild it.
Learned PHP the hard way. Charged 40 zł. Regretted nothing.
STUDIO · INDEPENDENT · 2016 — 2026
Software engineer, occasional showman.
I build products that feel like they cost more than they should — shipping full-stack systems, photographing the in-between, and obsessing over the 4px nobody else notices.
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TypeScript·
React·
Rust·
Postgres·
Figma·
WebGL·
Swift·
Go·
After Effects·
Hasselblad 500C/M·
Photoshop·
GSAP·
The best software feels like a well-made camera. It gets out of the way, it rewards attention, and it clicks — mechanically, satisfyingly, in your hand.
I ship front-end, back-end, infra, and the 200 tiny things nobody else wants to do. I also photograph, retouch, and occasionally direct — because a portfolio is a stage and I'd rather over-prepare than under-deliver.
§ 02 · A brief history of me, scrubbed by your mouse wheel
Warp strand,
Warp strand,
2016 → now.
Scroll forward, scroll back. The thread bends where the years bend.
'18
Freelance
Built 14 WordPress sites. Unlearned PHP.
Moved to React. Told everyone I had moved to React. Repeatedly.
'20
Agency · mid
Joined a Warsaw studio shipping edtech to 400k students.
Touched the database. Didn't break the database. A career peak.
'22
Staff eng.
Rebuilt a fintech's auth stack. Slept for a week.
Shipped 3 design systems. Two survived. One is still in my nightmares.
'24
Independent
Went solo. Took on five clients. Said no to forty.
Learned that "no" is a full sentence and also good for sleep.
'26
Now
Building the site you're looking at. Meta, I know.
Also: WebGPU experiments, a film camera revival project, and this portfolio.
§ 03 · Selected work
Six pieces.
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Six pieces.
Six different lies about craft.
"Mateusz shipped in two weeks what our last agency couldn't in four months. And he made it pretty. Unfair."— Nina K., Head of Product, Lumen Studios
Got a thing that needs building?
Four-step intake. No payment upfront. I'll tell you if I can't help — and usually who can.