Bartosz Blimke
Senior Software Developer at Independent Consultant
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolBartosz Blimke is a senior software developer and seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building large-scale Ruby on Rails applications and guiding product teams as a former CTO. He is the creator and sole maintainer of WebMock, a widely used open-source Ruby library for stubbing HTTP requests, reflecting deep expertise in test automation and reliable integration testing. Based in Warsaw, he combines pragmatic agile practices with a passion for clean code and automated testing to consistently deliver production-grade systems. His background spans founding startups and consulting, giving him a rare blend of hands-on engineering, architectural judgment, and product-minded leadership. Notably, his sustained maintenance of WebMock demonstrates both long-term stewardship of developer tooling and attention to tricky edge cases across HTTP client libraries.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-SenftenbergMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University of Wroclaw
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Github Skills (18)
testing10
ruby10
webmock10
excon9
typhoeus9
eventmachine9
http-client9
ruby-on-rails9
test-automation9
oracle9
routes6
fakeweb6
mocking6
transition6
rspec6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bblimke/webmock
Jul 2010 - Aug 2022
Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 918 commits, 219 PRs in 12 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bartosz's commits focus on enhancing the `webmock` library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby. They've improved the handling of streams for `em-http-request`, integrated with `httpclient` library, implemented support for the `Typhoeus` library and included fixes for edge cases such as handling URL-encoded parameters and dealing with custom content types. Further, they added test automation infrastructure and extended it for more reliability.
http-requestssettingstubbingexpectationsruby
bblimke/to_spreadsheet
Nov 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 years 2 months
renderxlsxhtml-viewsrailsruby
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