Kacper Paczos is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience and 3+ years focused on modern JavaScript stacks, backend services in C#/.NET and Python, and building scalable SaaS used by thousands. Based in Poznań, he combines university research and production work at Poznań University of Technology with practical DevOps automation using Docker, Ansible and Terraform, and a taste for efficient Linux-first tooling. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the Cinnamon desktop’s UI and settings, demonstrating attention to UX details even in system-level projects. He mentors developers and teaches programming across ages, bringing clear communication and accessibility-minded design to product development. Equally comfortable optimizing performance with ASGI/WSGI and Redis or shipping polished React/Vue experiences, he’s driven by a vision to blend web tech with efficient, Linux-native tools—eventually leveraging Rust for user-space applications.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier (Inż.), Informatics, Inżynier (Inż.), Informatics at Politechnika Poznańska
Technik, Informatics, 4,5, Technik, Informatics, 4,5 at Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych w Bydgoszczy
A Linux desktop featuring a traditional layout, built from modern technology and introducing brand new innovative features.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 3 commits, 13 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kacper primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and settings within the Cinnamon desktop environment. Their contributions include adding options to run gnome-disks from system settings, modifying sound settings keywords, and fixing display issues with labels and window heights. They also implemented a feature to show application details in the context menu. The changes involve modifications to Python files, and JavaScript files, focusing on settings and the menu applet.
A Linux desktop featuring a traditional layout, built from modern technology and introducing brand new innovative features.
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
electrontraditionallayoutlinuxinnovative
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Kacper Paczos - Software Engineer at Politechnika Poznańska