About
I'm Emre Ucak. I've been an independent e-commerce developer since 2019, specialising in PrestaShop and WooCommerce, and also comfortable with Shopify, PHP/Laravel and Node.js. This page explains how I work, and what I don't do.
Background
I've worked independently since 2019 on e-commerce projects: troubleshooting, development, migration, hosting, security. Two platforms account for most of my experience, PrestaShop and WooCommerce, because they're the ones I've worked with most consistently from the start. I also work on Shopify, and I build outside the standard e-commerce scope in PHP, with the Laravel framework, and in Node.js when a project calls for it.
I don't have an agency behind me. That's not a default choice: I'd rather stay on the code and the technical diagnosis than manage a team, and I'd rather a client know exactly who they're talking to from the first message through to delivery.
How I work
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Understand before proposing
I ask precise questions about the actual situation before suggesting a solution or a price, even if that takes a bit of time upfront.
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A written brief, even a short one
What will be done and what won't is put in writing, to avoid misunderstandings once work has started.
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Direct work on the code
No intermediary between diagnosis and fix: the person who looks at the problem is the one who fixes it.
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Honest feedback, even when it's not what you want to hear
If a project isn't feasible under the conditions requested, or if the existing code needs a larger rebuild, I say so before I start billing time.