Michał Niewrzał
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Storj
Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichał Niewrzał is a senior software engineering manager and hands-on engineer with 18+ years building distributed systems and over a decade in professional roles, currently leading engineering at Storj. He combines deep back-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the Storj decentralized cloud storage project—with practical leadership that scales teams and delivery. His background includes long-standing open-source involvement as an Eclipse committer and product-level firmware and IDE work across companies like Zend and ADB. Comfortable moving between architecture, performance debugging, and shipping core functionality, he has a track record of improving storage object management and system performance. Based in Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach that often surfaces in behind-the-scenes optimizations rather than headline features.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer science, MSc, Computer science at University of Zielona Góra
English, Polish
Github Skills (4)
object-storage10
go10
back-end-development10
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
storj/storj
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:117 reviews, 840 commits, 533 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Michał appears to be a back-end developer focused on the Storj project, contributing to core functionality improvements. Their commits involve working with both the cmd/uplink package, adding functionality related to share flags, and with the satellite/metainfo package. They introduced changes related to object deletion, which impacted the performance. Their commits also involve modifying code related to managing objects and segments within the system.
cloud-object-storagedistributed-storagedistributed-systemsdistributedstorage
mniewrzal/php-language-server
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 25 branches in 3 months
vscodephpvscode-extensionvs-codeserver-protocol
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