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Rob Hawlor

Rob Hawlor

Developer & Founder, Blue Penguin Digital

Wakefield, West Yorkshire

About me

I build every site myself. Not "our team." Not "one of our developers." Me. When you hire Blue Penguin Digital, you get my direct number — and when something needs sorting, you'll hear from me, not a ticket queue or an account manager who doesn't understand the technical answer to your question.

Before founding Blue Penguin Digital, I spent over ten years in service management — building Python scripts, Power BI dashboards, SQL pipelines, and a bespoke CRM in PHP. I learned the difference between something built to function and something built to look like it functions. That distinction drives every project.

My approach is simple: build fast, accessible, search-optimised websites that do the job they were built for. No page builders. No WordPress templates. No shortcuts. Every decision explained in plain English before a single line of code is written.

Technical expertise

HTML5 Tailwind CSS Alpine.js PHP 8.x Laravel MySQL 11ty / Eleventy Statamic Web Performance Technical SEO WCAG Accessibility Python Power BI SQL

Talk to me directly

No account managers. No automated emails. You'll speak to the person who builds your site — and I'll tell you straight whether we're the right fit.

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