Summary
Justyna Janczyszyn is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and operating backend and platform systems, currently leading engineering at Wave Mobile Money in San Francisco. She moved up from platform engineering into management at Wave after earlier platform and Maps API roles at Mapbox, demonstrating strong expertise in scalable infrastructure and geospatial services. Her hands-on background spans Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Celery, RabbitMQ and AWS, with prior leadership as a technical team lead delivering backend and DevOps solutions. She blends practical platform engineering knowledge with people leadership, focusing on reliability, developer productivity, and production readiness. Educated in computer science in Poland, she brings a methodical, systems-oriented approach informed by both product-facing API work and core platform operations. A detail that distinguishes her is repeated role evolution within the same companies, showing a pattern of internal promotion driven by technical impact and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Polish - Japanese Institute of Information Technology
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology
Polish, English, Italian, German, Spanish