Jan Paw is a Lead Data Engineer with over 11 years of experience who combines hands-on Scala and Spark expertise with proven leadership in data engineering and cloud projects. He has driven multiple Spark-on-Hadoop initiatives as a tech lead and manager at VirtusLab and now at InPost, bridging technical delivery and stakeholder strategy while improving team performance. Comfortable across backend systems, Akka, Play and frontend integration, he also has low-level embedded experience—contributing board support and AVR microcontroller work in Rust on the rahix/avr-hal project. As a former partner and board advisor, he pairs delivery focus with business-minded decision making, including GDPR and recruitment leadership. Jan’s background in photography signals a creative eye for problem framing and attention to detail that complements his engineering rigor. Based in Lesser Poland, he thrives on tackling legacy platform challenges and modernising data stacks for measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Modelling and Information Technology, Master of Science (MSc), Modelling and Information Technology at AGH University of Krakow
embedded-hal abstractions for AVR microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:51 reviews, 21 commits, 26 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the `avr-hal` repository, which provides embedded-hal abstractions for AVR microcontrollers. Their work involved adding support for various AVR microcontrollers (ATmega and ATtiny families), expanding the functionality of the HAL, and adding build scripts. The user demonstrated skills in low-level programming, hardware abstraction, and board support, with a focus on enabling the use of Rust for embedded development on AVR devices. They implemented changes to support multiple boards, including modifying existing functionality, along with a python script.
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