Jacek Bogdański
Engineering Manager at CKEditor
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolJacek Bogdański is an engineering manager based in Warsaw with 11 years of experience building modern web applications and leading teams at CKEditor. He has progressed through hands-on roles from front-end and full‑stack development to project leadership and now management, contributing notably to the widely used CKEditor 4 and 5 codebases. His work spans UX-facing features like autocomplete and emoji panels to backend language-command implementations and release maintenance, reflecting a rare blend of product sensibility and core-editor expertise. Jacek mentors engineers while still shipping code—his GitHub shows deep, practical contributions to a major open-source rich-text editor used across the web. He combines formal software engineering training with cross-disciplinary academic roots, bringing methodical problem solving to large, collaborative codebases.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSE, Biotechnology, MSE, Biotechnology at Lodz University of TechnologyMSE, Computer Science; Software Engineering, MSE, Computer Science; Software Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology
Polish, English
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
text-editor10
css10
autocomplete10
html-editor10
ckeditor10
editor10
wysiwyg10
front-end-development10
html10
user-interface9
ui-design9
interface-design9
web-development9
moq6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ckeditor/ckeditor4
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
The best enterprise-grade WYSIWYG editor. Fully customizable with countless features and plugins.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:224 reviews, 1992 commits, 382 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacek's contributions focused on fixing and improving the styling and functionality of the CKEditor 4 rich text editor. They were responsible for addressing parsing issues with border colors, style-related fixes, and the creation of features related to text editing, such as managing context initialization for the balloon toolbar. The user also worked on enhancing the editor's user interface, including improvements to the emoji panel and menu items display.
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ckeditor/ckeditor4-docs-samples
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
Code samples for the official CKEditor 4 documentation (https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor4/)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacek primarily contributed to the development of an autotag plugin for CKEditor 4, which provides autocomplete functionality for GitHub tags. Their work involved creating and refining the plugin's core logic, including text matching, data retrieval, and the rendering of autocomplete suggestions within the editor. They also updated the sample HTML, enhancing the user experience by styling and refining the presentation of the autocompletion items and behavior. Several refactorings were also performed.
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