Marek Wrobel
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMarek Wrobel is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and high-traffic features using Go, TypeScript, and AWS. He has led squads and cross-team initiatives at edX to migrate frontend stacks, improve Core Web Vitals, and speed up deployments, driving measurable growth and onboarding millions of learners. At Fubo and Strava he focuses on growth and product-facing engineering, optimizing user journeys and experimentation to increase conversion. His open-source contributions to projects like openedx/course-discovery show a hands-on focus on search, reindexing, and geotargeting data pipelines that enhance discoverability. Comfortable across the full stack, Marek combines clean architecture and observability-driven practices with a track record of reducing tech debt and shortening release cycles.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at The Silesian University of Technology
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Github Skills (10)
backend10
algolia10
data-service10
python10
webservice10
django10
apidoc9
api9
data-loading9
data-modeling8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/course-discovery
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 5 commits, 15 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Marek contributed to the backend service by implementing features and fixing bugs related to course discovery and metadata. Their work includes updating Algolia reindexing jobs, adding course override fields to the Algolia index, and integrating new fields into the Degree model. The user also developed a data loader for geotargeting CSV data, improving the application's capabilities related to course and program location restrictions. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing search functionality and data management within the course discovery platform.
data-managementconsolidateditilbackend-servicemetadata
marekwrobel/course-discovery
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Contributions:53 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
data-managementconsolidatedmetadata
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