Karol Wypchlo
Head Of Backend Engineering at Forgd
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolKarol Wypchlo is a hands-on engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building distributed systems and scaling teams across web3 and enterprise, currently Head of Backend Engineering in Warsaw. He combines technical ownership—architecting CI/CD, performance-tuned databases, and on-demand staging—with people leadership, restructuring teams into autonomous full-stack squads to remove delivery bottlenecks across time zones. His background spans high-throughput CDN and gateway infrastructure for decentralized storage, blockchain data pipelines, and data-centric analytics platforms that cut query latencies from minutes to seconds. Karol champions developer experience and tooling as leverage, driving AI enablement, weekly workshops and practical automation that reduced CI times by nearly half. An open-source contributor to AngularJS, he brings both front-end performance instincts and deep backend/domain expertise to bridge product and infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Lublin University of Technology
Polish, English
Stackoverflow
68reputation
4kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
performance-optimization9
testing8
http6
typescript6
php6
deprecated6
sql6
regex6
optimization6
mysql6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
angular/angular.js
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
AngularJS - HTML enhanced for web apps!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Karol primarily contributed to AngularJS's core functionality by optimizing existing code and fixing minor bugs. Their commits focused on improving performance through the use of the `slice` method and refactoring code to remove unnecessary function wrapping, specifically within the `orderBy` and `limitTo` filters. The user also addressed a bug related to the display of string representations within the application's debug output, improving the overall user experience.
javascriptangularjsangularweb-apps
kwypchlo/note-to-self
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 review, 32 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
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