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Piotr Pałka, Full-stack Developer in Kraków, Poland
Piotr Pałka

Full-stack Developer in Kraków, Poland

Member since September 3, 2019
Piotr is an experienced full-stack software engineer and IT consultant, who understands client perspectives, and turns ideas into high-quality products. He has expertise in both enterprise and startup environments. Having worked for corporations, banks, and software houses, Piotr has developed products used worldwide and helped startups and internal corporate systems using a variety of tech stacks.
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Portfolio

Experience

Location

Kraków, Poland

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Full-stack, Amazon Web Services (AWS), React, Java, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Agile

The most amazing...

...platform I've built was Nielsen Social, a low latency system that continuously consumes hundreds of thousands of Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram posts.

Employment

  • Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead | Consultant

    2020 - PRESENT
    Fortune 500 Company (via Toptal)
    • Owned the whole development cycle, from analysis, consultancy, and planning, to the development and delivery of high-quality features.
    • Ran a digital transformation in the customer portal application.
    • Redesigned, refactored, and documented core parts of the system and covered them with tests and monitoring.
    • Rebuilt the application from a classic Rails architecture to a single-page, user-friendly React application.
    • Applied best practices in many areas: development process, UX, technology, architecture, code quality, monitoring.
    • Performed deep analysis of the current algorithms and data, presented results, and proposed improvements.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Clean Code, Redux, Enzyme, Jest, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Digital Transformation, Full-stack, IT Consulting, Agile Software Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Analysis, React, SAP, project44

  • Software Engineer

    2019 - 2020
    Toptal (via Toptal)
    • Member of the Toptal core platform team.
    • Participated in the security and permissions framework migration project.
    Technologies: Back-end, CSS, HTML5, HTML, SQL, Git, Clean Code, React Redux, Software Design, REST API Architecture, JavaScript, Ruby, IT Consulting, Full-stack, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, RSpec, CanCanCan, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

  • Full-stack Engineer

    2019 - 2019
    HSBC
    • Implemented microservices in the application integrating HSBC trader data.
    • Interviewed candidates for the software developer position.
    Technologies: Back-end, CSS, HTML5, HTML, SQL, Clean Code, Software Design, REST API Architecture, JavaScript, IT Consulting, Full-stack, Oracle, Lombok, Jenkins, Angular, Git, Maven, Eureka, Netflix, Microservices, Spring Boot, Java

  • Full-stack Developer and Consultant

    2017 - 2019
    u2i
    • Re-implemented part of the system consuming hundreds of thousands of Tweets, using Twitter PowerTrack API as a member of the team that built the Nielsen Social platform.
    • Optimized queries for fetching Nielsen Social reports.
    • Added exciting, new features to the platform.
    • Worked directly with the client based in New York and Chicago.
    • Involved in the development of internal tools.
    Technologies: Back-end, CSS, HTML5, HTML, Facebook Open Graph API, SQL, Git, Clean Code, React Redux, Software Design, REST API Architecture, JavaScript, Ruby, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IT Consulting, Full-stack, GRAPH, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Athena, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud), Relational Database Services (RDS), AWS EMR, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Hive, Docker, Jenkins, Chef, Java, Sidekiq, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Redux, React

  • Full-stack Developer

    2015 - 2017
    Architech
    • Oversaw the development, client consultancy, analysis, problem-solving, testing, and deployment.
    • Built a management system for Westshore Terminals with the development team–the busiest coal export terminal in North America.
    • Facilitated excellent cooperation with teams from Toronto and Vancouver.
    Technologies: Back-end, HTML5, SQL, Clean Code, Software Design, REST API Architecture, JavaScript, IT Consulting, Full-stack, CSS, HTML, TypeScript, Angular, Mockito, JUnit, SonarQube, Jenkins, Git, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Microsoft SQL Server, Spring Boot, Java

  • Software Engineer

    2015 - 2015
    Enterprise Software Group: UBS
    • Worked on the project for six months in the UBS Switzerland headquarters.
    • Developed a UBS internal application for client advisors.
    • Participated in some internal products development, such as the mobile Ionic application.
    Technologies: Back-end, CSS, HTML5, HTML, SQL, Clean Code, Software Design, Full-stack, AngularJS, Apache Tomcat, Maven, Ajax, jQuery, JavaScript, JSP, Hibernate, Spring, Java

  • Java Developer

    2014 - 2015
    Oracle
    • Developed the Oracle product, Taleo application.
    • Implemented a framework for new methods of authentication, such as the use of 3rd-party applications accounts.
    • Added a variety of new features to the platform.
    Technologies: Back-end, CSS, HTML5, HTML, SQL, Clean Code, Software Design, Full-stack, Apache Tomcat, Maven, Git, Mockito, JUnit, jQuery, JavaScript, Spring, Java

Experience

  • Toptal Platform
    http://www.toptal.com/

    As a part of the Toptal core platform team, I took part in the permissions framework migration project working closely with Toptal project managers and the development teams.

  • HSBC Internal System

    An internal HSBC application, consisting of multiple microservices, that aggregates trader data.

  • Nielsen Social
    https://www.nielsensocial.com/

    A big data analytics platform for Nielsen Social. A really complex, low latency system that continuously captures and aggregates hundreds of thousands of TV-related social content using Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram APIs.

  • Retrotool
    http://retrotool.io/

    An internal u2i project for performing remote retrospectives.

  • Westshore Terminals

    A management system for Westshore Terminals–the busiest coal export terminal in North America.

  • UBS Internal System

    An internal application for UBS client advisors.

  • Oracle Product: Taleo
    https://www.oracle.com/pl/applications/taleo.html

    Oracle's fully integrated talent acquisition solution includes recruitment marketing and employee referrals to source talent, provide end-to-end recruiting automation, and streamline employee onboarding.

Skills

  • Languages

    Java, Java 8, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Bash, HTML5, SQL, TypeScript

  • Frameworks

    Ruby on Rails 5, Ruby on Rails 4, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Redux, Spring Boot, Swagger, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Mockito, JUnit, Bootstrap, Spring Security, Factory Girl, Hibernate, Angular, Spring, JSP, AngularJS, AWS EMR, Jest

  • Libraries/APIs

    React, REST APIs, Lombok, React Redux, Facebook Open Graph API, Facebook API, Instagram API, Twitter API, Sidekiq, jQuery, Rollbar, CanCanCan

  • Tools

    Git, GitHub, Redux Thunk, Amazon Athena, JetBrains, Slack, Apache Tomcat, Eureka, Jenkins, Chef, Maven, Postman, Jira, Trello, RSpec, SonarQube, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CLI, Terraform

  • Paradigms

    RESTful Development, REST, Agile, Clean Code, Agile Software Development, REST API Architecture, Test-driven Development (TDD), Scrum, Microservices, Functional Programming

  • Other

    Digital Transformation, Back-end, GitFlow, Software Development, IT Consulting, Full-stack, APIs, RESTful APIs, Data Analysis, Performance Tuning, Site Reliability, Project Planning, System Architecture, Agile Sprints, Interviewing, Analysis, Software Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Sprint Planning, Enterprise, Project Lombok, Startups, Front-end, Ajax, Relational Database Services (RDS), Facebook, Instagram, SAP, project44, Enzyme, Semantic UI, API Documentation, AWS

  • Platforms

    MacOS, Twitter, Netflix, Oracle, Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud), AWS Lambda, Docker, PagerDuty, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Storage

    MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Apache Hive, Datadog

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science
    2011 - 2015
    AGH University of Science and Technology - Cracow, Poland

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