Bartek
Igielski.

I handle the full product lifecycle, from initial concept and architectural design to high-performance frontend code, scalable backends, and automated deployment pipelines. I bridge the gap between engineering and product.

Ex-Head of Front-end and Board Member at Snowdog, ex-Tech Lead at Vue Storefront. Shipping for the web since 2008, which in JavaScript years makes me roughly 400.

Bartek Igielski

Track record.

A few things I built or helped build along the way.

Shipping since
2008
Conference talks
19
Downloads
1M+
Pull requests
1,200+

The timeline.

A chronological overview of my professional experience and independent pursuits.

Experience

May 2023 – Present

Solopreneur

Self-employed
Building and running my own products end to end: idea, design, code, infrastructure, analytics and support. Also helping others with architecture, frontend and 0 → 1 product work.
Jul 2022 – Apr 2023 (10 mos)

Tech Leader

Vue Storefront (now Alokai)
As the Tech Lead for a new team, I was tasked with creating a universal API orchestration layer for enterprise ecommerce, from an idea to a ready product. Along the way, I wore many hats: product manager, engineering manager, tech lead, backend (Node.js) developer, frontend developer, and DevOps. We got complex, multi-source nested GraphQL queries under 500 ms, even with a cold cache.
Aug 2020 – Jun 2022 (1 yr 11 mos)

Board Member

Snowdog
Worked towards refining company strategy, long-term vision, setting clear goals, improving culture and communication transparency. Analyzed the company's finances and built forecasts. Led the creation of a dedicated QA team and company-wide E2E testing adoption.
Apr 2019 – Jun 2022 (3 yrs 3 mos)

Head of Front-end

Snowdog
Stepped back from daily coding to focus on quality and architecture. Took projects through their early stages, from refining client needs to specs, architecture and PoCs, then handed them off to the squads I split the frontend team into. Contributed to open source over 1,000 times, most proudly bringing full Vue.js support to Astro. Joined the Magento Open Source Task Force.
Apr 2017 – Mar 2019 (2 yrs)

Lead Front-end Developer

Snowdog
Led the team behind the eobuwie.pl frontend and grew the frontend department: standards, technical guidance, knowledge sharing, recruitment and mentoring. Got Snowdog in as one of the first Vue Storefront partners and joined its core team. Led the Alpaca theme, which brought component thinking into Magento. Top 50 Magento community contributor in 2017 and part of the group laying the foundation for PWA Studio with Google.
Apr 2014 – Apr 2017 (3 yrs 1 mo)

Front-end Developer

Snowdog
Magento 1 and 2 front-end development for US and Polish brands, starting a six-year run on eobuwie.pl. Created Frontools and the Blank SASS Theme for Magento 2, with over a million downloads.
Jul 2013 – Feb 2014 (8 mos)

Front-end Developer

vollblutunternehmer KG
I was responsible for creating the front-end part of Ruby on Rails applications, dedicated for startups and ecommerce (Spree) needs.
Summers 2010 – 2012

Automation Assembler → Front-end Developer

Hydro-Marko
Assembled control circuits for sewage pump stations, then built a responsive web SCADA interface to run them. I've been dealing with crap in production ever since.
Jun 2008 – Jul 2013 (5 yrs 2 mos)

Freelancing

Freelancer
Worked with a bunch of small local businesses, helping them out put a foot in the internet doors.

Own projects

2026

iglo.tech

iglo.tech
A self-hosted stack for running a product solo: a backend (a PocketBase port to Bun + TypeScript), email, uptime monitoring and coding-agent tooling. Each piece started as a fix for a real need in my own projects.
2026

Paszomistrz

paszomistrz.pl
An application designed to optimize dairy herd nutrition by turning milk test reports into actionable feeding plans, improving herd health and productivity in minutes. Full-stack means full stack.
2025

Alpine.js Pro

alpinejs.pro
A powerful browser extension for debugging Alpine.js applications. It allows real-time inspection of components, event monitoring, and store management across stacks like Livewire and AHA.
2025

Cringe-o-meter

cringe-o-meter.com
A playful Chrome extension designed to measure and rate the "cringe factor" of posts while scrolling through your LinkedIn feed. A public service.
2024

Comments Tools

commentstools.com
A comprehensive SaaS platform that allows creators and researchers to effortlessly download, analyze, and filter audience sentiment from YouTube comments at scale.
2023

YouTube Comments Downloader

youtubecommentsdownloader.com
A dedicated utility that turns YouTube comments into research-ready datasets in seconds, exporting full threads and metadata to Excel or CSV for deep analysis.

On stage.

19 talks across Europe and the US, including Magento Imagine in Las Vegas. In 2018 I also curated the frontend track of Meet Magento Poland and got the creator of Nuxt on stage.

2016
2017
  • Magento Imagine, Las Vegas
  • Meet Magento Poland
  • Meet Magento Romania
  • Meet Magento Croatia
  • Nomadmage
  • Magento Meetup Poznań
2018
  • MageTitans Valencia
  • Reacticon #1 Eindhoven
  • Reacticon #2 Eindhoven
  • Meet Magento Poland
  • Meet Magento Romania
  • Chill.js Poznań
2019
  • Magento Meetup Poznań
2021
  • Meet Magento Poland
  • Reacticon #4

Open source.

Every public repository, contribution, and experiment currently hosted on GitHub.

5,292 contributions in the last year

Own projects 25

astro-electron
44

Build cross-platform desktop apps with Astro and Electron

JavaScript
theme-hyva-alpaca
7

 

HTML
n8n-nodes-pocketbase-admin
6

n8n-nodes-pocketbase-admin

TypeScript
astro-bun-adapter
3

Run Astro SSR on Bun's native HTTP server

TypeScript
lovelace-better-xiaomi-vacuum-map-card
1

Map-based vacuum controls for Home Assistant: the upstream card plus the fixes and features it left open, built test-first.

TypeScript
asus-xonar-u1-windows
1

Make the ASUS Xonar U1 volume knob work on Windows 11 and control its LED. No driver needed, one-click install.

C#
skills
1

Compact, intent-based agent skills for software delivery

TypeScript
klipper-bed-mesh-editor
1

 

Vue

Contributions 72

SnowdogApps/magento2-frontools
421

Set of front-end tools for Magento 2 based on Gulp.js

530 Contributions JavaScript
SnowdogApps/magento2-theme-blank-sass
377

SASS based version of Magento 2 Blank theme

387 Contributions SCSS
SnowdogApps/magento2-alpaca-components
45

Components library of Alpaca design system crafted for ecommerce

329 Contributions JavaScript
SnowdogApps/alpaca-ui
20

Components library of Alpaca design system crafted for ecommerce

164 Contributions JavaScript
vuestorefront/vue-storefront
10965

Alokai is a Frontend as a Service solution that simplifies composable commerce. It connects all the technologies needed to build and deploy fast & scalable ecommerce frontends. It guides merchants to deliver exceptional customer experiences quickly and easily.

162 Contributions
SnowdogApps/magento2-menu
334

Provides powerful menu editor to replace category based menus in Magento 2

129 Contributions JavaScript
wesbos/burner-email-providers
1206

A list of temporary email providers

44 Contributions JavaScript
SnowdogApps/front-end-recruitment-test
3

Snowdog Front-end recruitment test task

29 Contributions TypeScript

Public gists 25

remove-empty-dirs.sh

Aug 10, 2026

Shell
Generic secure and performant Docker host cloud-init for Debian 13

Apr 21, 2026

Text
Electron IPC Bridge Wrapper (typed, invoke + event)

Mar 13, 2026

Markdown
local reverse proxy setup guide

Nov 28, 2025

Markdown
Gray theme config

Jun 12, 2025

Markdown
How to replace sound Cursor uses to play after finish the work

Mar 31, 2025

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