Janina Szkut
Python Tamer at The Beanstalks Project ehf
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolJanina Szkut is a seasoned backend-focused software engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling web applications across startups, public sector, and fintech. Currently leading development as "Python Tamer" at The Beanstalks Project in Reykjavik, she has deep hands-on expertise from server provisioning to integration layers and a track record modernizing payments at Shopify for European expansions. She excels at internationalization and localization, turning region-specific requirements into accessible, production-ready features that help products grow into new markets. Janina is comfortable across the stack—shipping admin dashboards in React, refactoring large payment platforms, and maintaining certification tooling for cloud services—while mentoring junior engineers and onboarding teammates. Her background includes leading book-publishing and ebook platform projects, reflecting a long-standing interest in content accessibility and developer-facing tools. Known for combining pragmatic engineering with a global-minded product lens, she thrives on making technical systems work reliably across geographies.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (34)
smtp-client10
napalm10
email-parsing10
search-engine10
user-friendly10
pagekite10
pgp10
bounce10
traceroute10
security10
gevent10
e-mail10
email-client10
protocols10
imap-client10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pagekite/Colormake
Nov 2012 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
rustcolorize
pagekite/duppy
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 10 months
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