Joanna Derks
Software Engineer, Text Experience at Schibsted & Vend Polska
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolJoanna Derks is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable web platforms, currently focused on a shared article stack for Schibsted publications. She blends backend, CI/CD and DevOps expertise (Node, Postgres, Redis, AWS) with hands-on full-stack delivery and product lifecycle ownership from requirements to production. As a former technical lead and rotational Scrum Master, she’s comfortable shaping roadmaps, mentoring teams, and keeping tech debt and performance tuning part of regular delivery. Her background includes building real-time live reporting and commenting systems used across major Nordic newsrooms and earlier platform work at Skyscanner, giving her deep domain knowledge in high-traffic, data-driven web services. Trained in both web technologies and German philology, she brings uncommon communication skills and cross-disciplinary thinking to technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., German Philology, M.A., German Philology at Uniwersytet Rzeszowskipostgraduate, Web technologies, postgraduate, Web technologies at University of Technology, Rzeszów (Politechnika Rzeszowska)
English, German, Polish, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
utilities10
date-fns10
nodejs10
beautifier9
aspnet-web-api9
javascript9
regex9
searchable9
api9
parser8
rest8
typescript8
compressor8
compress8
mysql7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yummy-recipes/yummy-content
Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
Content for the Yummy blog
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
Team-Hunch/s3-utils
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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