The Beanstalks Project
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
Summary
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RockstarJanina 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.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
smtp-client10
colorize10
search-engine10
pagekite10
pgp10
security10
e-mail10
email-client10
imap-client10
encryption10
python9
public-suffix-list9
frontend9
proxies8
rust6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pagekite/Colormake
Nov 2012 - Feb 2017
A simple wrapper around make to colorize the output.
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
rustcolorize
pagekite/duppy
May 2022 - Jan 2026
A RFC2136 dynamic DNS update server
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 8 months
dns
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