Katarzyna Szawan
Senior Backend Engineer at Distribusion Technologies
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKatarzyna Szawan is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building scalable, maintainable systems and leading teams through full lifecycle delivery. She combines hands-on expertise in Ruby-based backends, AWS infrastructure (ECS, RDS, Lambda, Terraform) and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, X-Ray) with a strong focus on payments and data-driven products. As a technical lead she has driven monitoring and incident response improvements, owned end-to-end components in the debit cards domain, and rebuilt data pipelines to enable fleet electrification simulations. She advocates for async-first communication, sustainable engineering practices, and inclusive team culture—actively facilitating DE&I initiatives and coaching engineers. Notably, she pairs pragmatic refactoring and ADR-driven design with measurable improvements in performance and on-call reliability.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science at AGH University of Krakow
English, French, Polish, German
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Github Skills (31)
identity10
ethereum10
blockchain9
kotlin5
web-application4
pdf4
pdf-generation4
android4
authentication4
wkhtmltopdf4
autodoc3
html-to-pdf3
extraction3
webkit2
expressjs2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
katszwn/.dot
Oct 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
katszwn/smartwallet-app
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
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