Martyna Nowicka
Staff Software Engineer at Fandom
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMartyna Nowicka is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems at Fandom, progressing from intern to technical lead on MediaWiki-based platforms. She specializes in PHP, MySQL and large-scale migration work—her contributions to the widely used Wikia/app repo include migration scripts, domain aliasing and non-English wiki refactors that ensure smooth data and redirect integrity. Comfortable across the stack, she pairs backend expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ and observability tooling to deliver reliable, production-grade services. With a background in bioinformatics, she brings analytical rigor and a data-minded approach to engineering problems, often translating complex domain constraints into maintainable infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at Poznan University of TechnologyBachelor's degree Bioinformatics, Bachelor's degree Bioinformatics at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Github Skills (11)
databases10
php10
mediawiki10
database-api10
database10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
phpunit8
mysql8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Wikia/app
Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
Wikia Application Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 196 commits, 53 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Martyna primarily contributed to the `wikia/app` repository by developing and maintaining PHP scripts. Their work included creating migration scripts, particularly for handling domain aliasing and redirects. They also refactored code for non-English wikis, implementing features related to the migration process and database interaction. The commits highlight their involvement in ensuring the functionality and integration of core backend components.
wikiphpwikiamediawiki
Wikia/reverb-ext
Jul 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 reviews, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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