Paweł Kuligowski

Getting ideas across

Clients, developers and designers understand each other the first time, so less gets rebuilt.

• Sworn translator since 2007 (State exam). 2009–2013: EN–PL legal translation at CMS Cameron McKenna, where a clause has to mean exactly the same in both languages.
• MA in English teaching; online tutoring since 2025: explaining one thing several ways until it lands.
• 2021 and 2022 seasons: responsible for the guest experience at a remote hotel in Ireland.
• Luxury Boutique: the link between the dev agency, the editorial side and advertorial clients.

Writing that does its job

English and Polish copy that readers understand and act on.

• Editor-in-chief of the Luxury Boutique online edition: editing AI-assisted drafts, translating and adapting articles into English.
• Advertorial client outreach: writing that has to win a reply.
• neoneon.online: microcopy and content written alongside the design.

Turning needs into working products

From a short conversation to a launched site, owning the result.

• Led the Luxury Boutique relaunch on a custom platform (end of August 2026): supervised the dev agency, guided UI/UX decisions.
• neoneon.online: concept, UI, design system and user flows; built with AI tools, moved from Tiptap to Sanity with a Next.js frontend.
• Founded a 360° virtual tour business (2019–2020) and a one-person pizza corner in a Warsaw pub (2023–2024), responsible for every stage.

Visual thinking

Deciding what people see first and where they go next.

• 2017–2018: studied photography in London.
• 2018–2019, LPP SA: e-commerce photo sets for Reserved, Cropp and House that let a customer judge a product in a second on a small screen; chose locations, worked with stylists and make-up artists.
• 360° virtual tours (3DVista, PTGui): choosing where people start, what draws them on and how they move between spaces.
• Today the same skill drives layouts, user flows and navigation.

Adopting the right tools early

Spotting tools that save time before others do.

• Proposed translation memory (SDL Trados) for the law firm’s large bilingual document base.
• Used DeepL Pro 2–4 years before the firm gave all its lawyers DeepL keys.
• Works today with WordPress, Sanity, Astro, Next.js and AI tools for development.

Editor-in-chief, online edition, Luxury Boutique magazine

Dec 2025 – now

• Led the relaunch: moved two years of content from the old WordPress site to a new server and a custom design, with only minor tweaks to navigation.
• Brought the Polish and English editions together under one domain (luxuryboutiquemagazine.pl), replacing two separate sites. Added a new checkout and user accounts.
• Changed the editorial line from basic AI-generated texts to sourced, in-depth articles on art and hospitality.

• Old site: luxuryboutiquemagazine.com
• New site: luxuryboutiquemagazine.pl

Founder, One-person pizza corner in a Warsaw pub

Sep 2023 – Dec 2024

• Ran every stage myself: sourcing, dough, setup, cooking in front of guests and service.
• About 40 pizzas a night, Thursday to Sunday, with regulars coming back twice a week.
• A seven-year-old guest said it was “better than sweets”.

• Instagram (now “Lepiej Napisane”; the pizza photos and guest compliments are still there): instagram.com/p/Cz_YO10omoP/

Receptionist, Remote hotel in Ireland

2021 and 2022 seasons (14 months)

• Learned the hotel’s reservation system in about two weeks with no formal onboarding.
• Kept front desk operations and the guest experience running smoothly for two seasons.

Founder, 360° virtual tour business

2019 – Mar 2020 · 3DVista, PTGui

• Created tours for the Medical University of Warsaw, a top-tier apartment in central Warsaw and a new coworking space in Kraków.
• Pitched and won two of the three projects myself, one through a cold call.
• The apartment tour doubled the number of viewing requests.
• The university tour was never published by the client; I kept the files and can show them on request.
• Ended by COVID in March 2020.

E-commerce photographer, LPP SA

2018 – 2019 · Reserved, Cropp, House

• Worked in a three-person team with a stylist and a make-up artist; responsible for lighting, shooting decisions and final photo editing.
• Shot hundreds of clothing items to fixed daily volumes; designed and built photo sets and chose shoot locations.
• Co-created two concepts for a seasonal capsule collection that went live after being presented to the product design team.

Photography studies, London

2017 – 2018

Freelance EN–PL translator; sworn translator since 2007

2004 – 2009 and 2013 – 2025

• Left teaching in 2004 to start my own translation business; passed the State sworn translator exam in 2007. Legal translation for law firms and translation agencies.
• Work came through lawyers who kept hiring me after moving firms, and agencies I had worked with since before 2009.

EN–PL translator, CMS Cameron McKenna

2009 – 2013 · global law firm based in London, one of the most recognised in Poland

• Translated commercial, real estate and litigation documents on large projects.
• Delivered a typical translator’s weekly output in two to three days using translation tools.
• Proposed translation memory (SDL Trados) for the firm’s bilingual document base; used DeepL Pro 2–4 years before the firm rolled it out.

English teacher

1999 – 2004 and 2025 – now · online tutoring since 2025

• MA in English teaching. Taught adults and children, including Cambridge FCE and CAE preparation.
• Prepared two students who passed the English department entrance exams and went on to graduate.

neoneon.online Live

A blog about writing and UX, designed to be read: clean layout, legible type, self-explanatory navigation. Concept, design system, user flows, microcopy and content by Paweł; built with AI tools; moved from Tiptap to Sanity with a Next.js frontend.

360° virtual tours

Details under Experience. Go to the entry

This CV website

Designed by Paweł, built with Astro, GSAP and AI tools. The contrast with neoneon is the point: form chosen for purpose.