Summary
Aleksander Wirth is a senior Software Developer in Test with a decade of experience building and owning test automation and quality practices for microservice-heavy back ends across streaming, telecom and CDN domains. Currently at Akamai, he focuses on functional automation for API gateway features like JWT validation, caching and throttling using Java, rest-assured, BDD and modern CI tooling. Previously he combined hands-on automation with component ownership and team leadership at EPAM and Sabre, translating production issues into technical backlogs and mentoring QA teams. He has a pragmatic engineering background spanning embedded Python devices, Java EE systems and React front ends, and has introduced CI/CD and test automation practices in smaller companies. Based in Tychy, Poland, Aleksander treats “works on my machine” as an invitation to make tests and pipelines reproducible and production-aware.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Of Science, Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Master Of Science, Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying at Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie
AGH University
1st year only finished - with great marks though ;), Applied Computer Science, 1st year only finished - with great marks though ;), Applied Computer Science at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie