Albert Latacz
Founder at buildnote
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlbert Latacz is a founder and pragmatic engineering leader based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience building robust backend systems and developer tooling. He blends product-minded leadership with deep technical craft—particularly in Kotlin, Scala and Java—having led projects across fintech, big data, and consumer platforms while founding multiple startups. At companies from Citi and NatWest to air up® he has driven delivery and transformation work, focusing on lean practices, testability and secure, maintainable systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved developer tooling such as a Java REPL and added testing and AWS integrations to the popular http4k Kotlin toolkit. He pairs technical depth with entrepreneurial instincts, shipping features and infrastructure while mentoring teams to deliver high-quality outcomes. Notably, he co-founded-builds startups that surface CI pipeline observability, reflecting a continuing focus on developer productivity and reliability.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons in Computer Science, Computer Science, BSc Hons in Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WestminsterBEng in Information Systems, Computer Science, BEng in Information Systems, Computer Science at Kielce University of Technology
English, Polish, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
33reputation
4kreached
2answers
1question
Github Skills (19)
kotlin10
rep10
http10
java10
http4k10
javas10
http-client10
http-server10
ktor10
repr10
testability10
refactor9
aws-lambda9
exception-handling9
tdd9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
albertlatacz/java-repl
Mar 2013 - Aug 2018
Read Eval Print Loop for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 releases, 438 commits, 8 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Albert's commits indicate a focus on enhancing the Java REPL with features like array support, basic help and error handling, and improved exception management. They refactored the codebase to create a system for replaying previous evaluations, and a system to extract method and type signatures during autocompletion, suggesting a significant contribution to core functionality. The changes involve updates to the REPL.java, Result.java, and EvaluationContext.java and the addition of a new class for parsing and handling expression code.
java
http4k/http4k
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the http4k project by adding and extending Hamkrest matchers to support the testing of HTTP messages, requests, and responses. They expanded the testing capabilities with new functions for matching various HTTP features. Additionally, the user added support for Ktor Netty server, as well as fixing encoding issues within Lambda function bodies. They also added mapping for CloudWatchLogsEvent and SNS event AWS specifications.
http-servicehttp4kkotlinhttp-clienttypesafe
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.