# Pavol Rašev

> Senior software engineer from Nitra, Slovakia, with 10+ years of experience. React, Next.js, TypeScript, React Native, Node.js and PHP (Symfony, Laravel). Open to remote roles with teams in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, and to client projects through Fellow Bytes s.r.o.

- Email: hello@pavolrasev.com
- Phone: +421 915 583 341
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavol-rasev
- Languages: Slovak (native), English (B2)
- Slovak version: https://www.pavolrasev.com/sk/
- Full text of every page: https://www.pavolrasev.com/llms-full.txt

## Case studies

- [Canteen](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/canteen/): Four apps on one API: employees order lunch on the web or at a kiosk, the counter hands it out with one card scan, and month-end billing stops being a day of counting. Stack: Next.js 16, React 19, Vite PWAs, NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis, Socket.IO, Python.
- [FirmFlow](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/firmflow/): Lunch in your pocket: the week’s menu, one tap to order and a barcode card at the counter. Works with no signal and signs in with Face ID. Stack: Expo SDK 57, React Native 0.86, TanStack Query, Symfony 8, API Platform 4, Next.js 16, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ.
- [FyzioDesk](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/fyziodesk/): One system instead of a booking tool, a spreadsheet and paper notes: calendar, online booking, client records, exercise plans with video and a client portal. Stack: NestJS 11 on Fastify, Next.js 16, React 19, Prisma 7, PostgreSQL 18, Redis, BullMQ, MinIO, Expo, Zod. Live site: https://app.fyziodesk.sk/wiki/
- [Vlnkovo](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/vlnkovo/): Off Shoptet without losing Google: 605 old addresses redirected and tested, products and stock kept in sync with the till in the shop. Stack: PrestaShop 9.1, Creative Elements, PHP, custom modules, Dotykačka POS API. Live site: https://vlnkovo.fellowbytes.com/
- [Anate](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/anate/): A studio that gets found: fast pages, structured data for Google, and one admin for services, clients and the messages that come in. Stack: Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind 4, Symfony 8, EasyAdmin, PostgreSQL, Vercel. Live site: https://www.anate.sk/
- [Matrace Lema](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/matrace-lema/): Mobile PageSpeed from about 40 to over 90, mattresses configured to the centimetre, and orders that land straight in the company’s ERP. Stack: PrestaShop 8.2, PHP, Smarty, JavaScript, MySQL, custom modules. Live site: https://matracelema.sk/
- [Genau](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/genau/): Ninety projects in ten European countries, presented in Slovak, English and German with translated addresses. Stack: Laravel, PHP, MySQL, Blade. Live site: https://genau.sk/
- [Toneri](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/toneri/): Offices don’t know cartridge codes, they know printers. Type the model, get the right cartridges and a price quote. Stack: Laravel, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript. Live site: https://www.toneri.sk/
- [Apartmán Donovaly](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/apartman-donovaly/): Bookings straight from the owners’ own page instead of a portal: gallery, price list and a request form that checks the dates. Stack: Laravel 8, PHP, MySQL, Blade, Bootstrap 5. Live site: https://apartmandonovaly.sk/
- [Ellevani](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/ellevani/): Personalised gifts sold from a store built from scratch, with the online withdrawal form Slovak law has required since 2024. Stack: PrestaShop 8.2, custom child theme (webpack, SCSS), PHP, MySQL. Live site: https://ellevani.sk/
- [RiverStream](https://www.pavolrasev.com/work/riverstream/): Live streaming for AltTag Media’s online and hybrid events. I worked on the front end, the page builder, multi-tenancy and permissions. Stack: Laravel 8 and 10, Blade, JavaScript, Vite, Laravel Echo and WebSockets, AWS Kinesis Video Streams (WebRTC), AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Live site: https://alttag.media/

## Experience

- 2023 – now: Senior software engineer, Fellow Bytes (my own company, Nitra). SaaS products and e-commerce for clients, end to end: Canteen, FirmFlow, FyzioDesk and the stores on this page. I also keep building AI features for For Best Clients’ merchants.
- 2022 – 2023: Software engineer, Lokalise (remote). Over-the-air translations: apps pull the bundle that matches their release, so mobile teams change copy without shipping a build. Rebuilt the bundle management UI and the export pipelines.
- 2019 – 2022: Web developer, For Best Clients (Trnava). Gradus, a multi-tenant e-commerce platform. React, Redux and Next.js on the front, six payment gateways, ERP, warehouse and feed integrations. We still work together on AI features for their merchants.
- 2016 – 2022: Freelance web developer, alongside full-time work (Nitra). Websites and web apps for Slovak clients, and front-end work on the RiverStream event platform for AltTag Media.
- 2016 – 2017: Web developer, Azet.sk (Žilina). Slovakia’s largest classifieds portal. RabbitMQ workflows for listing moderation and syndication, responsive redesign.
- 2015 – 2016: PHP developer, Webtec (Bratislava). E-shops on Nette: checkout, payments, MySQL tuning.

## Services

- Web apps and SaaS: React and Next.js front ends for products, from the design system to the last loading state. I can own the API and the database too.
- Online stores: PrestaShop stores and custom themes, product feeds, payment and courier integrations, and migrations from old versions without losing SEO.
- Mobile apps: React Native and Expo apps that share logic with the web, keep working without signal and sign in with Face ID.
- AI features: Text generation, data extraction and assistants that only reach the data they should, plus MCP servers so your team can use your own app from Claude or ChatGPT.

- [PrestaShop developer](https://www.pavolrasev.com/prestashop-developer/): Freelance PrestaShop developer in the EU: upgrades from 1.7 to 8 and 9, custom modules, ERP and POS integrations, speed and long-term care. From €70/h.
- [Web apps and SaaS](https://www.pavolrasev.com/saas-development/): Web apps and SaaS products built end to end: React and Next.js front ends, Node.js or PHP (Laravel, Symfony) APIs, PostgreSQL, multi-tenancy and tests. Remote from the EU, from €70/h.
- [Mobile apps](https://www.pavolrasev.com/mobile-app-development/): iOS and Android apps in React Native and Expo that share logic with your web app, work offline and sign in with Face ID. Plus the API behind them. From €70/h.
- [Websites](https://www.pavolrasev.com/web-development/): Fast company websites in Next.js or Laravel: multilingual with translated URLs, structured data for Google, and an admin your team can edit. Remote from the EU.
- [Online stores](https://www.pavolrasev.com/online-store-development/): New online stores on PrestaShop for European merchants: own theme, payments, carriers, invoices, feeds and ERP or POS integration. No licence fees. From €70/h.

## Blog

- [How I build with Claude Code: skills, sub-agents and sessions that talk to each other](https://www.pavolrasev.com/blog/claude-code-agents-workflow/): A real week with Claude Code: a skill that drafts articles, a research agent that checked ten countries, and a session in another repo that fixed a bug it was sent.
- [One app for the shop floor: how I help a company move its internal processes off paper](https://www.pavolrasev.com/blog/one-app-for-internal-processes/): Lunch orders first, then announcements people sign, machine fault alerts and failure statistics. How to bring a company's internal processes into one employee app, and where to start.
- [EU e-invoicing mandates: what a PrestaShop store has to change](https://www.pavolrasev.com/blog/eu-e-invoicing-prestashop/): Belgium, Poland, France, Germany, Slovakia: B2B e-invoicing is becoming mandatory across the EU. What it means for an online store, and where PrestaShop gets it wrong.

Rate: From €70 per hour, or a fixed price once we have scoped the work. Invoiced through Fellow Bytes s.r.o., EU VAT reverse charge for business clients.

## AI

https://www.pavolrasev.com/ai/ — AI features I have shipped: a product description generator running in a live PrestaShop store (OpenAI and Anthropic), an MCP server that lets an assistant book appointments in FyzioDesk without reaching medical records, and llms.txt for AI search. I build with Claude daily; architecture, data models and security decisions are mine, generated code is reviewed and tested like any other, and client code goes into AI tools only with the client's consent.

## Free website audit

Send a website address through https://www.pavolrasev.com/#audit and get a short audit within two working days: loading speed, how Google and AI search see the site, mobile behaviour, and the three things most likely costing orders.

## Contact

Write in English or Slovak: hello@pavolrasev.com. Contact form at https://www.pavolrasev.com/#contact.