Ignacy Łątka
Software Engineer at Software Mansion
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolIgnacy Łątka is a software engineer based in Krakow with seven years of hands-on experience in full-stack development and AI integrations, currently building AI features and a chatbot for Radon IDE at Software Mansion. He is an active open-source contributor to prominent React Native projects—improving Reanimated's UI interactivity and hardening gesture handling on Android—demonstrating fluency across TypeScript, C++, Kotlin and native mobile layers. His background spans web tooling (Angular), e-commerce automation tied to OpenAI, and practical production deployments, reflecting a knack for shipping end-to-end solutions. Curious and pragmatic, he combines low-level performance fixes with developer-facing UX improvements, which makes him comfortable navigating both native mobile internals and AI-driven product features.
7 years of coding experience
Technik Informatyk, Technik Programista, Computer Science, Technik Informatyk, Technik Programista, Computer Science at Zespół Szkół Elektrycznych nr 1 w KrakowieBachelor's degree, Applied Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Applied Computer Science at Jagiellonian University
Github Skills (18)
kotlin10
javascript10
react-native10
gesture-recognizer10
animation10
gesture10
ui-design10
android-development10
uid10
gesture-recognition10
front-end-development10
gestures10
typescripts8
javas8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
software-mansion/react-native-gesture-handler
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Declarative API exposing platform native touch and gesture system to React Native.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:2 releases, 497 reviews, 166 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ignacy's commits primarily focus on improving the Android implementation of the react-native-gesture-handler library. Their contributions include fixing the activation metric for the fling gesture handler, adding the corner area detection feature to the fling gesture, adding state flow charts to the documentation, rewriting swipeable example to new API, adding touchType to touchEvent, creating a separate component out of the new swipeable row, fixing android native buttons emitting 2 press events when talkbalk is enabled, fixing nested pressable's event propagation, fixing `backgroundColor` not being applied to `RNGestureHandlerButton` and fixing Android new arch crash on RN 0.75. These changes demonstrate expertise in native Android development within a React Native context.
apireactreact-nativejavascriptdeclarative
software-mansion/react-native-reanimated
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
React Native's Animated library reimplemented
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 17 PRs, 77 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ignacy primarily contributed to the React Native Reanimated library, focusing on improving the user interface and component behavior. They implemented interactive elements in the documentation, fixed issues related to text interactivity, and improved the PerformanceMonitor component. Their work involved modifying UI components and addressing performance-related issues, indicating a strong focus on frontend development within the React Native environment.
reactanimationanimatedreact-nativejavascript
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