Christian Wyglendowski
Software Engineer at Convex
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Wyglendowski is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building consumer and backend systems, including significant contributions to Google Photos and the YouTube Create mobile video editor. He moved between large-product teams and indie consulting, most recently working at Convex on a reactive database platform after a stint as an independent developer and collaborating with Google Labs on Project Genie. Comfortable shipping mobile and server-side features, he has contributed to open-source projects such as pyquery and Liberapay, improving traversal APIs and implementing funding-goal models. Based in the Columbus, Ohio area, he blends product-focused engineering with pragmatic backend design and database migrations. Notably, his career spans both early-stage startups (Bump) and major consumer platforms, giving him a rare combination of startup agility and scale engineering experience.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Malone University
Github Skills (13)
xpath10
postgresql10
sql10
python10
lxml10
web-content9
jquery9
webpages9
database-design9
css9
testing8
django8
monetary8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gawel/pyquery
Dec 2008 - Dec 2008
A jquery-like library for python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on enhancing the `pyquery` library's traversal capabilities. Their contributions include implementing core traversal methods such as `filter`, `find`, `end`, `not_`, `is_`, `hasClass`, `eq`, and `map`. They also expanded the functionality of the `filter` method to support callable functions. The user further improved the documentation by integrating doctests into the method docstrings.
pythonjquerycssjavascriptjquery-like
liberapay/liberapay.com
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Source code of the recurrent donations platform Liberapay
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the implementation of funding goals functionality within the Liberapay platform. They added a new `Goal` model and modified the `Participant` model to handle goal-related data, integrating with the existing database schema. Their changes involved database migrations, modifying existing models, and adding new code to support the new features. The user's work primarily focused on the back-end logic and database interactions of the donation platform.
crowdfundingmoneypythonrecurrent
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