Cielsko Storefront
WordPress and WooCommerce e-commerce work delivered during a remote internship, where the constraint was someone else's platform.
The Exchange is the market district — the storefront on one side, the freelance stalls on the other. This is the storefront.
The role
Web Developer Intern at Cielsko Ecommerce LLP, remote, Dec 2025 — Jul 2026. I built and maintained web products and WordPress e-commerce solutions, working with cross-functional teams on feature delivery and deployment workflows.
Why a WordPress project sits next to a Next.js one
Because it is the only project here where I did not choose the stack, and that turns out to be the more useful experience to have had.
Everything else in this city is a decision I made. This one was a platform I inherited, with a theme someone else wrote, plugins I did not pick, and a client whose store could not go down while I worked on it. The skill being exercised is not “can you write PHP” — it is working inside constraints that are not negotiable and shipping anyway.
That is most professional work. A portfolio made entirely of greenfield projects quietly claims otherwise.
What the internship actually taught me
Delivery cadence. Working with cross-functional teams means your definition of “done” has to survive contact with people who did not write the code — a feature is finished when it is deployed, documented well enough for someone else to change it, and not silently breaking something adjacent.
The deployment-workflow half of that is the thread connecting this to the AWS work: both are about the distance between “it works on my machine” and “it works, in production, for someone else.”