Adam Szalkowski
Lead Software Engineer at DataHow AG
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Szalkowski is a Lead Software Engineer based in Zurich with 13 years of experience building embedded and high-performance systems, leading data engineering teams, and shipping full-stack solutions. He blends low-level embedded expertise with modern backend and tooling work—frequently using Rust, Go and NixOS—to maintain apps and libraries and wrestle with unusual codebases. At DataHow he drives engineering outcomes while previously leading data engineering at Tamedia and working on HPC and embedded projects at Alpiq and bbv. An active open-source tinkerer, he has contributed Android improvements like ActivityLauncher features (icon choosers, recent tasks, root access) and enjoys diving into weird corners of code. He holds rigorous engineering training from KIT and PhD-level bioinformatics study at ETH Zurich, a background that informs his analytical approach to systems design.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor (Ph.D.), Bioinformatik, Doktor (Ph.D.), Bioinformatik at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichDiplom-Ingenieur, Informatik, Diplom-Ingenieur, Informatik at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Github Skills (9)
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android-developer10
mobile10
javas10
ios10
android-sdk10
android10
java10
ui-design9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
butzist/ActivityLauncher
Jul 2013 - Dec 2022
Activity launcher creates shortcuts for any installed app and hidden activities to launch them with ease
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:23 releases, 21 reviews, 150 commits in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development of the ActivityLauncher Android application, as indicated by the commit messages and code changes. The contributions include implementing a recent tasks fragment, creating and integrating an icon chooser, and implementing features related to creating and launching shortcuts for activities. The user also worked on enhancements like filtering the activity list and adding root access functionality.
installed-appandroidlauncherinstalledactivities
butzist/yew-plotly
Nov 2022 - Feb 2024
yew wrapper component for plotly.js
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
chartsrustplotlyplotly-dashplotting
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