Ania Kowalska
Software Engineer at Elastic
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolAnia Kowalska is a software engineer based in Barcelona with six years of experience building web and mobile applications, currently contributing to Elastic’s front-end work. She has a strong background in React and React Native, and also champions Svelte and good design—bridging UI polish with practical engineering. Her open-source contributions include UI improvements to the widely used Kibana project and internationalization updates to the Ghost publishing platform, showing comfort across front-end and back-end areas. Past roles span startups and consultancy work where she shipped responsive, mobile-aware interfaces and refined developer-facing APIs. Trained initially in cognitive psychology, she brings a user-centered perspective to UX and developer ergonomics. A cybersecurity enthusiast, she balances practical product delivery with an interest in secure, maintainable code.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
cognitive psychology, cognitive psychology at Seconda Università degli Studi di NapoliReact, React at Zero To Mastery AcademyReact, React at AcademindMaster's degree Psychology, Master's degree Psychology at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
English, Spanish, Polish, Catalan, Italian
Stackoverflow
425reputation
40kreached
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
apidoc10
eui10
responsive-design10
typescript10
ui-design10
ghost10
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
elastic-ui10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:133 reviews, 39 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ania primarily contributed to the user interface (UI) components of the Kibana project, focusing on enhancing the Discover application. Their work involved fixing responsive design issues within the data view picker, including addressing label wrapping and overflow problems. They also added mobile device width constraints and refined the display of data view names and alert details. Furthermore, the user made changes to highlight matching field values in KQL searches and replaced occurrences of `euiThemeVars` with `euiTheme`.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
TryGhost/Ghost
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ania primarily contributed to the Ghost publishing platform by replacing the `i18n.t` package with the `tpl` helper across various core server files. This involved changes to authentication, authors, invites, pages, and labels APIs. The commits demonstrate a focus on updating the codebase and adapting it to use a new template helper for improved internationalization management within the platform. This likely contributed to overall code maintainability and future feature development.
cmsmembershipspublishingnewslettersjavascript
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