Karol Buczek
Full-Stack Engineer · Solutions Architect
About
I wrote my first code at twelve and never really stopped — building sites and apps alongside every job since. But a passion for entrepreneurship and a couple of Mad Men seasons later, the career that found me was marketing — and it took me all the way to Marketing Director of a mid-market brand, running leads and conversion across four markets.
That job taught me the lesson behind everything I build: strategy is only as good as the pipelines under it. The bottleneck was never creativity — it was plumbing. So I brought it all full circle with solution engineering, and for seven years I've shipped the integrations and applications that marketing, ops, and leadership teams actually run on.
The Arc
The part of consulting I'm proudest of: the people who've seen my work up close keep hiring me.
2023 – Present
Went out on my own: serverless AWS applications, production analytics platforms, headless WordPress rebuilds, and integration architecture.
2021 – 2023
Universal Windows DirectWent fully technical. Expanded and organized a centralized integration API connecting Five9, CRM, Mailchimp, and internal platforms — with shared logging that made failures traceable across every automation.
2019 – 2021
Perfect Power WashRecruited to modernize web and data infrastructure, then promoted to own strategy and the technology stack through an expansion from one market to four. Built their first data warehouse, wrote the internal tooling, and hired and trained a developer to take the systems further.
2009 – 2019
A decade of freelancing across disciplines, following the opportunities: client sites and web apps, photography and videography, illustration — including album artwork for a multi-Grammy-winning artist — and early startup ventures. All of it built alongside school, internships, and every job I held.
“I highly recommend Karol for any role that requires technical expertise paired with a strong business mindset.”
Christopher Jarvis
VP of Enterprise Digital Marketing, Great Day Improvements — Direct Manager
How I Work
Problems should surface immediately, not silently. When a pipeline fails, a lead drops, or data drifts — you know. Idempotency, retries, and logging are the difference between a weekend fire drill and a Monday morning status update.
I don't start with tech choices. I start with what the business needs to measure, ship, or fix — then map back to the smallest architecture that does it. I've sat on the buying side of these decisions, and it permanently changed how I make them.
Tight scope, no gold-plating, and tools that keep working long after launch. The best systems are the ones nobody has to think about.
Brands I've Worked With
The Work
Integration layers, cloud applications, analytics platforms, and enterprise WordPress — scoped with stakeholders, shipped to production, and still in use.
Cloud architecture
Managed identity, signed-URL delivery, role-based access, and immutable audit logging on AWS — built for an audit provider that couldn't let data leave its environment and had no DevOps team to run servers.
Performance engineering
Full rebuild of Mineralife's B2B presence as headless WordPress + React — marketing kept their CMS, the frontend got a leaner delivery layer, and lead forms were rebuilt with qualifying and scheduling that route into a custom sales CRM.
Next chapter
I'm looking to contribute to any team that is looking for someone who's quick to understand business objectives and reliable at turning them into working systems.
FTE, project-based, retainer contract — I'm not fussed as long as it's the right culture fit.
If that sounds like your team, let's talk.