Justyna Ilczuk
Engineering Manager at Nomagic
Poland
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Top SchoolJustyna Ilczuk is an engineering manager and seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building reliable, high-performance distributed systems, particularly in cloud infrastructure and storage. After a long tenure at Google spanning SRE and management roles focused on Persistent Disk IO and Bigtable, she shaped fleet maintenance and IO reliability for GCE and now leads engineering at Nomagic while exploring startup opportunities as a founder. She blends deep hands-on backend skills—evidenced by contributions to the IPython codebase improving Python 3 exception handling—with a track record of running production-critical services at scale. Curious by nature, she pairs technical rigor with a penchant for learning and adventurous problem solving, whether rock bouldering or navigating early-stage ventures. Based in Poland, she brings pragmatic leadership that bridges low-level systems engineering and product-driven delivery.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Physics, Bachelor's degree Applied Physics at Warsaw University of Technology
Polish, English, German
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Github Skills (12)
ipython10
exception-handling10
python10
jupyter10
testing9
notebook9
data-science8
webfaction6
django-testing6
postgresql6
pycrypto6
django6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ipython/ipython
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Justyna primarily focused on improving the `IPython/IPython` repository's error handling, specifically for Python 3 exceptions. They refactored the `ultratb.py` module, extracting code into separate methods to enhance readability. The user added support for Python 3 exceptions, including handling exceptions that store context about previous exceptions. Additionally, they added tests to confirm the proper operation of Python 3 exception handling.
documentation-websitepythondata-sciencebuildsnotebook
ilonajulczuk/laughing-archer
Apr 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:110 commits in 1 month
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