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About Dominik
Dominik is our WordPress Tech Lead and a front-end developer with 18 years of experience building websites for interactive agencies across Switzerland, Germany and the United States.
At what., he owns the WordPress side of delivery – from design systems and theme architecture through to performance, accessibility and long-term maintainability. He specialises in translating design systems into WordPress: component-based themes wired to ACF, so that what designers define in Figma stays consistent in the build and stays editable for the client afterwards. Alongside that, he works on the development process itself, using AI to move designs from Figma into WordPress and to build features faster without giving up quality.
Dominik started in 2008 at CloudAccess.net in the United States, where he built the front-end of a hosting management platform, created CMS templates and trained other front-end developers. He went full-time freelance in 2014 and has been part of what. since 2016. Years spent working directly with agencies and their end clients gave him a practical sense of what actually ships – where budgets get eaten, which technical shortcuts come back later, and how to keep a project moving without a meeting for every decision.
Detail-driven and pragmatic. Dominik would rather solve a problem once, properly, than patch it three times – which is why he invests in reusable components, tooling and documentation. He treats AI as part of the toolchain rather than a gimmick: he builds his own skills and workflows for it, from Figma-to-WordPress conversion to feature development, and shares what works with the team. He has worked remotely since 2010, so he leans on clear asynchronous communication: annotated screenshots, short screen recordings and decisions written down where the team can find them. Outside work you will find him at the gym, travelling, or playing video games.
- Builds design systems into WordPress – Figma components mapped to reusable blocks and ACF structures, so the design stays intact and the client can still edit it.
- AI-assisted development – custom skills and workflows for moving designs from Figma into WordPress and for coding features, cutting the repetitive part of every build.
- Performance optimisation – regularly brings websites to 90+ on Google PageSpeed Insights on both mobile and desktop.
Experience & Education
18 years in front-end development; working remotely since 2010, freelance since 2014.
Design systems and their implementation in WordPress – component libraries, ACF-driven structures, editor experiences clients can actually use.
AI-assisted development – building custom skills and workflows for Figma-to-WordPress conversion and feature development.
WordPress theme and block development, ACF, WPML, custom editor and admin experiences.
Modern front-end: HTML5, CSS with Sass/PostCSS, Tailwind CSS, vanilla JavaScript, GSAP animation.
Performance optimisation, Core Web Vitals, accessibility and responsive UI.
Git, GitLab CI/CD and automated deployments across multiple environments.
MSc in Multimedia Systems, University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz (2005-2010).