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Karol Liszniewski

// PHP web developer - WordPress, Laravel & more

Freelance web developer working across the PHP world: WordPress, Laravel, Joomla and Magento. I build, deploy and maintain real client sites, and I'm comfortable picking up and tidying AI-assisted or inherited codebases.

available for freelance

guest@karol-dev:~
$ cat skills.txt
> WordPress | Laravel | PHP | Joomla | Magento 2 | CSS | SCSS | Tailwind | MySQL | Git

// PROJECTS — selected work

Pure Build

WordPress site for a UK construction company. Custom theme, five page funnel for Google Ads quote requests.

WordPressPHPCSSGoogle Ads

live demo ·read more

Teddy Fisher

WooCommerce fishing bait store on a custom WordPress theme, with product bundles, Stripe checkout and trade pricing.

WordPressWooCommercePHPSCSSStripe

live demo ·read more

Lunova Design

Static client facing landing funnel for a web design studio. Planned for a serverless host on Google Cloud.

HTMLCSSStaticLead capture

live demo ·read more

CSS Grid Generator

Interactive tool to visually generate CSS grid layouts and copy the code.

JavaScriptCSSHTML

live demo ·read more

Functional Skills App

Mobile spelling app with text to speech drills. PHP API and React Native frontend.

React NativeExpoPHPText to speech

live demo ·read more

Appointly24 - booking widget

A free, open source Laravel booking widget that syncs bookings into Google Calendar. Copy paste embed, manage slots from your site.

LaravelPHPMySQLGoogle Calendar API

live demo ·read more

// EXPERIENCE — work history

commit a1b2c3d · LATEST · Authored: 04/2025 – Present

Freelance Web Developer

Self-employed · [ UK ]

Building and maintaining real client sites across WordPress, Laravel, Joomla and Magento.
Comfortable picking up and tidying AI-assisted or inherited PHP codebases.
Handling deployment and site migration, this portfolio runs serverless on Google Cloud / Firebase.

commit d4e5f6a · Authored: 09/2024 – 02/2025

Junior Magento Backend Developer

Aware Digital · [ UK ]

Worked on Magento 2 backend tasks and store maintenance as a junior developer.

commit 7g8h9i0 · Authored: Before 2024

Self-taught developer

~9.5 yrs e-commerce · ~3 yrs study · [ UK ]

No CS degree, learned by "YouTube + AI + ship".
~9.5 years self-employed in e-commerce; ~3 years of focused study into web development.

// STACK — tools & technologies

{
  "languages": [
    "PHP",
    "JavaScript",
    "HTML",
    "CSS / SCSS"
  ],
  "frameworks": [
    "WordPress",
    "WooCommerce",
    "Laravel",
    "Joomla",
    "Magento 2"
  ],
  "tools": [
    "Git & GitHub",
    "Vite & Webpack",
    "MySQL / phpMyAdmin",
    "Tailwind",
    "jQuery",
    "Figma"
  ],
  "infrastructure": [
    "Linux VPS (Nginx, Apache)",
    "Cloudways, SiteGround, cPanel",
    "Google Cloud / Firebase",
    "AWS (general)",
    "Deployment & site migration"
  ]
}

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// CONTACT — let’s build something

Available for freelance WordPress, Laravel and general PHP work. Usually reply within 24 hours.

$ email karol@karolliszniewski.co.uk

$ github github.com/karolliszniewski

$ linkedin linkedin.com/in/karolliszniewski