Andrzej Ludwikowski is a Principal Software Developer and architect with over a decade of experience designing resilient, distributed systems using Scala, Java, Akka, Kafka and Cassandra. He has led multiple backend teams across fintech, exchange trading and IoT domains, routinely combining hands-on implementation with architectural leadership and performance troubleshooting. At SoftwareMill he ran teams building production-grade event-driven platforms and trained others in Akka and reactive patterns; he now contributes to Akka itself, helping shape the platform his teams rely on. His open-source work includes significant backend refactors for the popular Bootzooka Scala microservice starter, showing a focus on maintainability, security and session management. Based in Oregon and originally from Poland, he pairs deep systems expertise with a pragmatic emphasis on developer productivity and operational robustness.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Uniwersytet Zielonog贸rski
Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at University of Sheffield
Simple project to quickly start developing a Scala-based microservice or web application, without the need to write login, user registration etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrzej primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing the backend code of the Bootzooka project. Their contributions included changes to the `user` and `passwordreset` packages, indicating efforts to improve code organization and maintainability. They also updated session management and security headers. Further modifications were made to the `passwordreset` and `email` modules, as well as configurations, suggesting that the user worked on improvements to the application's core features.
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
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Andrzej Ludwikowski - Principal Software Developer at Akka