I'm Norbert Kovalčín — a digital solutions architect based in Prešov, Slovakia. I've shipped software on the public web for seventeen years — long enough to have rewritten my own stack four times and to have stopped apologising for it.
I started in 2009 with Joomla and jQuery because that's what paid. Moved to Laravel and early React when that's what paid better. Now I run a Next.js 16 / Postgres / Drizzle default for new builds and a Laravel + Filament default for operations-heavy clients — because boring technology, carefully chosen, is how small teams outrun bigger ones.
I work solo by design. One person handles the design, the code, the deploy, and the Sunday-night fire alarm. Fewer handoffs, fewer 4px decisions lost in translation, one signature across every surface. When a client needs a team of ten, I tell them honestly — and point them at the three agencies I trust to do that well.
I run three of my own products alongside client work — Faborino (e-commerce), Conseto (growth platform), and Kovrin (open-source AI safety). Two in active build, one in OSS maintenance. They exist partly because I wanted them to exist, partly because every feature I ship for clients gets battle-tested on my own properties first.
Built in Europe — the cultivated middle. Working with teams across the EU, the UK, and the US East Coast. Available for 1-2 new engagements per quarter — see the slot bar at the top for current capacity.
