Jakub Paczkowski is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of hands-on Python/Django development and a decade of management experience, now leading product development at Intellinet after directing engineering for over 50 developers at SpotOn. He combines deep backend expertise—including contributions to the peewee-async project around async transactions and connection pooling—with strong product and budget stewardship, aligning multi-team delivery to business goals. As a former CTO and co-owner of an accounting tech company, he blends operational pragmatism with strategic growth initiatives and office expansion experience. Jakub mentors engineering teams, champions practical automation and CI practices from his DevOps background, and aspires to share his learnings on conference stages. Off the clock he rides motorcycles, reflecting a taste for calculated risk and continuous learning.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Informatics science, Master of Science, Informatics science at Jagiellonian University
Asynchronous interface for peewee ORM powered by asyncio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributed to the asynchronous functionality of the `peewee-async` library. They implemented support for raw queries, async transactions, and savepoints. The user also focused on ensuring compatibility with the underlying peewee ORM and managing database connections, particularly with connection pooling. Their work included modifying the database initialization and implementing related context managers.
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Jakub Paczkowski - Head Of Product Development at Zwinny Księgowy