Bartosz Kaznowski
Back End Engineer at Thought Machine
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBartosz Kaznowski is a Back End Engineer and former Tech Lead Manager with 12 years’ experience building and scaling cloud-native banking and payroll systems. Currently at Thought Machine he leads Core-Accounts work on Vault, maintaining and expanding account functionality for a production core-banking platform. He has deep backend and database experience—contributing to projects like SurrealDB and Neo4j—alongside strong hands-on skills in Go, Python, Groovy and Java. His background in mathematics and a final-year project on proactive secret sharing reflect a long-standing interest in security and cryptography, which he has applied as a Security Champion and API working group member. Previously he helped evolve Intuit’s Global Payroll Platform for QuickBooks Online in the UK, gaining product-focused, compliance-aware engineering experience. Based in London, he also founded RapidRecast, showing an entrepreneurial bent for simplifying streaming systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Bristol
English, Polish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
causal10
testing10
databases10
query-optimization10
java10
javas10
database-design10
rust10
backend10
distributed-database10
clustering10
database10
graph-database9
documentdb9
nosql9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
surrealdb/surrealdb
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:451 reviews, 186 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Bartosz primarily contributed to the core functionality of the SurrealDB database, as evidenced by modifications across multiple files, including key management, storage, and live query features. The user's work involved optimizing and refactoring database interactions, addressing data storage concerns, and improving the efficiency of core operations. The user also implemented unit tests to validate their code changes. The user has also modified documentation for the database.
realtimedatabase-as-a-serviceserverlessnosql-databasedeveloper-tools
neo4j/neo4j
Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:197 commits, 130 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bartosz contributed to the Neo4j database project by implementing the "Introducing Resolution Resolver" and "Added logs and cleanup" features. The commits involved modifying the `CausalClusteringSettings.java` file and the `HazelcastCoreTopologyService.java` and `DnsHostnameResolver.java` files. The user's work primarily focuses on causal clustering, with the addition of support for DNS resolution and the integration of a resolution resolver within the hazelcast clustering service.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
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