Greg Popiel
Frontend Web Developer at Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Popiel is a frontend web developer based in Krakow with 9 years of software engineering experience and over seven years focused on building and improving web interfaces. Currently at Neue Zürcher Zeitung, he blends modern frontend frameworks (Vue, React) with practical full‑stack experience from earlier roles using Laravel, PHP and Java. Greg contributes to open source—making targeted Java fixes and UI improvements to the widely used JabRef reference manager—showing attention to detail in sorting, dialog UX and preview functionality. He combines pragmatic bug-fixing chops with a taste for UI polish and cross‑stack fluency, having moved between freelance projects and product teams. Trained in Informatics, he brings steady, hands‑on delivery and a habit of improving user-facing details that often go unnoticed.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier (Inż.), Informatics, Inżynier (Inż.), Informatics at Wyższa Szkoła Technologii Informatycznych w Katowicach
Github Skills (8)
javas10
debug10
javafx10
java10
front-end-development9
ref9
biblatex8
bibtex8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JabRef/jabref
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases
Role in this project:
Java Developer
Java DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 11 PRs, 38 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the JabRef project by fixing bugs and implementing small enhancements. Their work focused on improving the application's functionality, including fixing sorting issues, correcting button orders in dialogs, and removing unwanted characters in key generation. Furthermore, the user made UI improvements to the entry preview functionality within the application and preferences. The contributions involved Java code, specifically modifying Java classes, related to core application logic and UI elements.
reference-manageracademic-publicationsjavafxlatexjavafx-desktop-apps
dextep/jabref
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases
Contributions:33 pushes, 13 branches, 10 comments in 2 months
java-applicationbibdatabasesgraphicalbiblatex
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