Karolina Olszewska
Engineering Lead at Plum
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKarolina Olszewska is an engineering lead based in London with a decade of experience building backend systems and leading collaborative teams in fintech and cloud domains. She progressed from internships in Poland to senior engineering roles at GoCardless and now leads engineering at Plum, combining hands-on backend development with team coaching and delivery ownership. Karolina thrives in high-collaboration environments and is motivated by customer-driven systems, using strengths like Activator and Communication to move ideas into production. Her background spans cloud solutions at Intel to large-scale payments infrastructure, giving her a practical grasp of reliability and operational concerns. Colleagues value her restorative mindset—she enjoys diagnosing and fixing systemic issues rather than just adding features. She pairs formal computer science training from Gdańsk University of Technology with a track record of stepping into leadership while staying technically hands-on.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at Gdańsk University of Technology
English, Polish
Github Skills (47)
crowdsourcing9
data-validation9
labeling9
datasets9
medical9
medical-imaging9
deep-learning8
compose8
data-science8
kotlin7
jetpack7
allure7
plugin7
xamarin-forms6
android6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kolszewska/Ticket-Reservation
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:46 PRs, 34 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 3 months
pythonweb-applicationreservation
kolszewska/HoroscopeSpider
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Scrapy spider that allows you an insight into your future...
Contributions:1 review, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
pythonscrapyspiderscrapy-spiderscraper
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