Michał Bielawski
Principal Software Engineer at Apperio
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichał Bielawski is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with 16 years of experience building backend systems primarily in Python 3 and Django. He has progressed through engineering roles at Apperio—now leading architecture and delivery—and brings deep hands-on experience from earlier positions focused on Django, Symfony and Drupal. Michał pairs backend expertise with front-end sensibility, evidenced by notable open-source UI contributions to the Flood torrent web UI where he improved UX, responsiveness and file-handling features. He is comfortable across the stack, from server and framework-level work to performance tuning and product-focused engineering. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who consistently turns complex requirements into reliable, user-centered solutions.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Jana i Jędrzeja Śniadeckich w Bydgoszczy
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Github Skills (11)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
rails-i18n9
file-upload9
ember-i18n9
i18n-js9
css8
performance-optimization7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Flood-UI/flood
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
A web UI for rTorrent, qBittorrent and Transmission with a Node.js backend and React frontend. Migrate to v4: https://github.com/jesec/flood/wiki/Migrate-from-older-versions-of-Flood.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michał primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Flood web UI, a project for managing torrent clients. Their contributions include implementing a file drop feature for adding torrents, adding download/upload rate display to the window title, refactoring speed calculations, improving responsiveness of the torrent list's dropzone, and fixing a bug in the display of file sizes. The user primarily worked with React, JavaScript, and related front-end technologies to improve the user experience.
floodreactqbittorrenttransmissionreact-frontend
Apperio/kombu
May 2019 - Sep 2024
Messaging library for Python.
Contributions:13 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 4 months
messaging-librarypythonasynciomessaging
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