WEBSITES.
STORES.
SYSTEMS.
BUILD SOMETHING REAL.
I've stood in the studio. Now I build for the practices I know from the inside.
I help architects, designers, photographers, and festivals show their work. I design, I code, I maintain.
Select a project
FIXED STARTS.
CUSTOM ENDS.
Every project is different. I build what you need. That said, here's a starting point.
DM me or email me. Send references, a rough timeline, what you're trying to build. I'll get back to you within a day.
If you know what you want, I build it. If you don't, I show you options. I work best when I can come in, see your work, and build upon what you already have — or start completely from scratch and propose something new. We use Figma to track revisions. No comment is ignored. Everything required gets implemented.
Most projects ship in 1-2 weeks. The biggest hurdle is usually approvals and redesign loops. When the direction is clear, I move fast. Your site gets proper SEO, correct schema markup, the technical care that makes it fast and findable. I know how a website works from top to bottom and back again — from the first pixel to the last.
Launch is when it starts working. I include three months of post-launch support in every project. We do checkins to see if there's anything else I can update to help your brand grow alongside the website. After that, maintenance is optional but recommended.
ARCHITECTURE
TRAINED.
CODE
FLUENT.
I spent years in architecture studios. H2O in Melbourne, MEI and De Zwarte Hond in Rotterdam. I loved the work. I kept hitting the same wall: the systems were fragile, and the websites were worse.
I started building. First for Plasticiet, where I worked. Then for friends. Then their referrals. 14 sites later, I work full-time from De Kroon in Rotterdam.
Once a client came to me after a Dutch agency had built their site. Everything outsourced. Every change cost money. Three layers between them and the person pushing buttons.
That's not how I work. One person who designs, codes, and stays after launch. Direct. No layers.
I don't just make websites.
Send me what you're building. References, examples, a rough timeline. I'll reply straight — whether I can help, what it would take, when we could launch. No sales pitch, just the reality. Email is best. DM works too.
Email subject: "Let's work together"
DM @bigolssPhotography keeps me honest. Forces me to look at the world as it is, not how I want it to be. When I'm not at a screen, I'm walking around with a camera.
Buildings, streets, cities. Rotterdam, Tbilisi, Iran, wherever else I end up. Self-published zines — sold about 50 copies internationally via crowdfunding. Available for commissions: architecture, interiors, urban environments.
Furniture and objects made from recycled paper, metal, and plastic. Two years at Plasticiet — moulds, material testing, finished pieces. Code is clean, but plastic is messy. I like getting my hands dirty.
Also film sets, light installations for collectors, prototypes. Custom work on request.
I write about freelancing and how I organise work. Mostly things I've figured out the hard way.
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The Taxcoon LeagueRead →
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Freelancer Task Management GuideRead →
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Kanban vs Traditional Task ListsRead →
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Substack ↗
- Riverway Lab — Web Developer14+ sites for architects, designers, photographers, shops 2022–
- Booking from [month] — typically 1–2 slots per month
- Plasticiet — Technical Support & FabricationRecycled plastic materials, workflow tooling ongoing
- MaMA Rotterdam — Exhibition TechnicianWall construction, lighting, Raspberry Pi installations per exhibition
- Sample-Sync — FounderQR material tracking for architecture firms 2023–
- StayCloseBy — FounderHyper-local room sharing, Rotterdam 2023–
- Ptah Collective — Co-Curator 2023
- Cité Internationale des Arts — Residency, Paris 2022
- Self-published photography zinesRotterdam, Tbilisi, Iran — ~50 copies sold internationally 2022–
- De Zwarte Hond — Technical Engineer 2020–2022
- Mei Architects — Junior Designer 2019–2020
- H2o Architects — Junior Architect, Melbourne 2017–2019
- Mei Architects — Intern 2016–2017
- University of Melbourne — M.Arch, Architecture 2019
- TU Delft — M.Arch, Architecture 2018
- Univ. of New Mexico — Exchange, Parametric Design 2015
- Univ. of Tasmania — BSc, Environmental Design 2015