Anna Nowak
Backend Engineer at Appunite
Poznan, Greater Poland Voivodeship
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Top SchoolAnna Nowak is a pragmatic Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building dependable APIs and integrations using Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL. She combines a user-centered, context-driven approach with hands-on expertise in message queues, background jobs (Oban/RabbitMQ), caching and data pipelines to deliver reliable production systems. At Tellent/Recruitee she led cross-functional Shape Up projects, migrated a back-office app to Phoenix LiveView, and balanced feature delivery with second-line support and release planning. A consistent open-source contributor, she has improved civic and non-profit projects like Consul Democracy and CASA with backend features that directly support real-world workflows. Outside engineering she mentors aspiring developers and brings a maker’s mentality—able to ship mockups, fixes, or localized features herself—rooted in strengths like Input, Context and Activator.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. e-business, M.Sc. e-business at Poznan University of Economics And BusinessM.A. Law, M.A. Law at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
English, German, Polish
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Github Skills (25)
database-migrations10
ruby-rails10
postgresql10
rails10
casa10
ruby10
activerecord10
database-migration10
git-repository9
github-repos9
html8
css8
script6
siteprism6
web-testing6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 1 PR in 1 year
Contributions summary:Anna primarily contributed to the backend development of the CASA volunteer management system. They implemented the court date model, including database schema modifications and model definitions. Further contributions involved creating court dates based on existing case data and integrating these dates into the application's edit pages. These changes involved modifications to models, controllers, and database migrations to support court date functionality.
servesyouthr4gmanagement-systemcasa
consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Consul Democracy - Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Anna focused on enhancing the budget investments functionality within the Consul Democracy project. Their work involved refactoring the sorting mechanism, allowing users to sort budget investments by different parameters and direction (ascending/descending). The commits show the creation of helper methods and modification of the data model to support dynamic sorting and the incorporation of visual indicators for the sorting direction in the user interface. Several refactorings, bug fixes and code clarifications were implemented.
consulrubyagplv3e-governmentdemocracy
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