Michal Kawalec
Principal Software Engineer at X-Team
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Kawalec is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-scale services, currently responsible for core products that serve hundreds of millions of players at Riot Games through X-Team. He combines a strong academic background in mathematical physics with hands-on experience across full-stack web, systems, and security tooling—ranging from Python and Flask to Node.js and C—delivered across startups and enterprise projects. Known for creating maintainable, correct code, he has led projects from patent-processing systems to B2B portals and built internal security and batch systems during his time at the University of Edinburgh. A pragmatic technical leader and mentor, he favors elegant engineering solutions and operational robustness, and away from the keyboard he pursues mountain biking and mountaineering, reflecting a taste for challenging, methodical problem-solving.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Mathematical Physics with Honours, Master's Degree Mathematical Physics with Honours at The University of Edinburgh
Polish, English, German
Github Skills (183)
expressjs10
multithreading10
rust-wasm10
asmjs10
imap-client10
jsx10
concurrency10
javascript10
client-library10
middleware10
linux10
elm10
stream10
emscripten10
webassembly10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mkawalec/monadic-party
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
A Haskell Summer School
Contributions:5 PRs, 42 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
summer-schoolhaskellsummer
mkawalec/showjs-client
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:70 commits in 25 days
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