E-commerce2025Retail group, Prishtina
Dukagjini Market
A headless storefront for a 40-store grocery chain, with same-day delivery slots, loyalty pricing and an Albanian and English catalogue.
Next.jsStripePostgreSQL2.4x mobile conversion
Available for new projects
Buildingthewebfrom Kosovo, for the world.
I build fast, accessible web products for startups and studios across Europe. Based in Prishtina, working with teams from Zurich to Stockholm.
Prishtina, Kosovo/CET (UTC+1)
8+
years shipping products
98
avg. Lighthouse score
TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLTailwind CSSPrismaGraphQLFramer MotionDockerAWSFigmaTypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLTailwind CSSPrismaGraphQLFramer MotionDockerAWSFigma
Selected work
Products people actually use every day
A sample of recent builds. Every one of them is live, maintained and measured.
E-commerce
Web App2025SaaS startup, Zurich
Nova Analytics
A real-time reporting dashboard handling millions of events a day, with streaming charts, saved segments and role-based sharing.
ReactGraphQLWebSockets380ms median query
Fintech2024Fintech, Tirana
BankaFlow
Onboarding and payments front end for a digital bank, including identity checks, card management and a fully audited accessibility pass.
TypeScriptNode.jsWCAG AA41% faster signup
Marketing2024Restaurant group, Peja
Ballkoni
A reservation-first site for a mountain restaurant, with live table availability, seasonal menus and a kitchen-friendly admin panel.
Next.jsCMSBookings1.9k bookings a month
Marketplace2023Property agency, Durrës
Terra Estates
A property marketplace with map search, saved alerts and virtual tours, rebuilt from a legacy WordPress site with zero downtime.
ReactMapboxSearch6x organic traffic
Booking2023Tour operator, Prizren
Rruga Travel
A multi-day tour booking platform with group pricing, partner payouts and an itinerary builder used by twelve local guides.
Next.jsStripePrisma€1.2M booked in year one
About
A one-person studio with a decade of shipping behind it.
I started writing HTML in a Prishtina computer lab and never really stopped. Today I work as an independent developer, which means you talk to the person actually building your product, not an account manager.
Most of my work sits at the intersection of interface and infrastructure: a front end that feels instant, backed by an API that does not fall over when traffic arrives. I care about the boring parts too, accessibility, error states, what happens on a slow connection in a village outside Peja.
I work in English, Albanian and German, on Central European time, which overlaps with the whole of Europe and most of the US morning.
0+
Years building for the web
0
Products shipped end to end
0
Clients across Europe
0%
Average Lighthouse score
React & Next.js96%
TypeScript93%
Node.js & APIs88%
UI & Motion Design85%
PostgreSQL & Prisma82%
DevOps & CI/CD76%
Services
What I can take off your plate
Six things I do often enough to do them well. Pick one, or hand over the whole build.
Web Applications
Dashboards, portals and internal tools built on React and Next.js, with real data, real auth and real edge cases handled.
Marketing Sites
Conversion-focused landing pages that load in under a second and rank, with a content setup your team can actually edit.
E-commerce
Storefronts and checkout flows wired to Stripe and headless commerce, tuned for speed on mobile connections.
Design Systems
Component libraries with tokens, documentation and accessibility baked in, so every new screen stays on brand.
Performance Audits
Deep dives into Core Web Vitals, bundle size and render cost, delivered with a prioritised fix list and the fixes applied.
API & Backend
Typed REST and GraphQL layers on Node and PostgreSQL, with sensible schemas, caching and background jobs.
Process
Four steps, no mystery
01
Discovery
A short call, a written scope, and a fixed timeline. No proposal theatre.
02
Design
Interface work in Figma, reviewed against real content before a line of code exists.
03
Build
Weekly deploys on a live staging URL, so you watch it come together instead of waiting.
04
Launch
Performance pass, analytics, handover docs, and thirty days of support after go-live.
Experience
Where the last decade went
2022 — Present
Independent Web Developer
Freelance, Prishtina
Partnering directly with founders and design studios across Europe to take products from first sketch to production, usually as the only engineer on the project.
2020 — 2022
Senior Frontend Engineer
Gjirafa Tech
Led the front-end rebuild of a high-traffic marketplace serving the Balkans, cutting load time in half and introducing a shared component library.
2018 — 2020
Full-Stack Developer
Starlabs Digital
Built booking and logistics platforms for clients in Germany and Switzerland, working across Node services, PostgreSQL and React front ends.
2016 — 2018
Web Developer
Kutia Software
Started out shipping WordPress and Laravel sites for local businesses, then moved the team onto modern JavaScript tooling.
Arben joined as our only engineer and shipped a production dashboard in seven weeks. He asks the questions our product manager forgot to ask.
LB
Lena Brunner
Co-founder, Nova Analytics
Our storefront went from painfully slow to genuinely quick on a village 4G connection. Sales followed within the first month.
FB
Fatos Berisha
Head of Retail, Dukagjini Market
Clear communication, no surprises, and code our in-house team could pick up without a handover call. Rare combination.
ML
Marcus Lindqvist
CTO, Starlabs Digital
FAQ
The questions I get asked first
Most marketing sites land between €4,000 and €9,000, and web applications start around €12,000. You get a fixed price after the discovery call, not an open-ended hourly rate.
Contact
Have something you want built?
Tell me what you are working on. You get a real reply from me, usually within a working day, with an honest read on scope and timeline.