Gerard Dróżdż
Engineering Team Lead at Comscore, Inc.
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolGerard Dróżdż is an Engineering Team Lead with six years of hands-on experience building scalable JVM-based systems and data pipelines, currently leading engineering at Comscore in Warsaw. He combines deep expertise in Scala, functional programming (ZIO, Akka), and cloud-native tooling (AWS, Kubernetes, Spark, Trino) with a practical focus on architecture, observability, and extensibility. A former JetBrains contributor to the widely used IntelliJ Scala plugin, he implemented advanced data-flow analysis features that improve IDE diagnostics for Scala developers. His background includes production-focused roles at Syncron and internships at Google and Virtu Financial, where he designed resilient monitoring and high-availability systems. Certified as an AWS Solutions Architect Associate, he blends algorithmic rigor from competitive problem solving with pragmatic engineering for distributed systems. Outside tech he speaks seven languages, bringing a cross-cultural and linguistically nuanced perspective to global teams and product design.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Warsaw
Polish, English, French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Chinese
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Github Skills (4)
scala10
intellij-plugin9
java7
javas7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/intellij-scala
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:131 commits, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gerard contributed to the development of the IntelliJ Scala plugin, specifically focusing on data flow analysis (DFA) features. Their work included implementing basic variable declarations and reference expressions, as well as enhancing the control flow builder. The contributions also involved creating a new interface and refactoring the existing control flow builder accordingly. The user demonstrated skills in implementing various methods for control flow analysis.
intellij-platformintellij-ideascalaintellij-pluginintellij
gerardd33/Tidy
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
The Tidy programming language
Contributions:299 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 months
dataminingnormalizationcompilertidyprogramming-language
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