Maciej Olko
Senior Software Engineer at Affirm
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMaciej Olko is a Senior Software Engineer based in Warsaw with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and improving developer workflows across startups and established companies. Currently at Affirm, he previously shipped features and services at YouGov and built an innovative off-road parking solution at PolChip, demonstrating a blend of product-focused engineering and systems thinking. A Python specialist by practice and contribution, he’s also an active technical writer for the official CPython project and the Python developer’s guide, improving documentation and translation workflows for a globally used language. Comfortable across R, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and backend services, he pairs practical implementation skills with attention to developer experience and localization — a detail reflected in his documentation and translation work for Python.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer science, Master of Science, Computer science at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
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Github Skills (21)
github10
python10
translation10
sphinx10
technical-writing10
localization10
rest10
documentation10
javascript9
twitter-bootstrap9
css9
html9
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
python/devguide
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
The Python developer's guide
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Localization Specialist
Technical Writer / Localization SpecialistContributions:4 reviews, 2 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Maciej primarily focused on improving the documentation for the Python developer's guide, specifically around translation efforts. Their contributions include adding links to the Polish translation resources (GitHub, translations, and documentation), incorporating a link to the documentation translations dashboard, updating information on how to get help with translations, and noting the existence of the "python-docs-translations" GitHub organization. They also made changes to the language-specific documentation by shortening the names of the languages.
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python/cpython
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
The Python programming language
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:23 reviews, 2 commits, 13 PRs in 11 days
Contributions summary:Maciej's contributions primarily involve updating and fixing documentation within the Python CPython repository. They updated the Sphinx version used for documentation building. The user also fixed Sphinx warnings in the tutorial files and improved the formatting of the documentation, specifically addressing block types in GDB howto documents, enabling translation of literal and code blocks in the documentation files.
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