Michał Pociecha
Senior Software Engineer at Evolution
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolMichał Pociecha is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in Scala and large-scale distributed systems, currently building resilient data-driven services at Evolution. He has deep expertise in functional Scala stacks (Cats Effect, fs2, http4s), reactive systems (Akka, Kafka) and production tooling including Docker, Helm and observability with Grafana/Kibana. His background spans both giant monorepos for global financial institutions and fast-moving startups, and he has led small teams and advised at the company level. A long-time contributor to core Scala projects—having worked on the Scala compiler and Scala IDE—he brings practical knowledge of compiler/build internals and developer tooling that few backend engineers possess. Based in Kraków, he also co-organises the Kraków Scala User Group and has substantial interviewing and training experience, making him strong at hiring and mentoring technical teams.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
AGH University
Polish, English, German
Github Skills (14)
scala-compiler10
unit-testing10
debugging10
debug10
junit10
functional-programming10
scalajs10
scala10
test-driven-design9
jvm-languages9
javas8
eclipse-ide8
java8
object-oriented-programming8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scala/scala
Jul 2014 - Jul 2016
Scala 2 compiler and standard library. Scala 2 bugs at https://github.com/scala/bug; Scala 3 at https://github.com/scala/scala3
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 7 PRs, 59 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Michał primarily contributed to the Scala compiler and standard library. Their work involved removing unused code related to resident compilation and adapting the codebase to support a flat classpath representation. They also refactored the scalap tool's main functionality and made improvements to the class path handling. The changes included modifications to directory and zip/jar file handling and associated tools.
functional-programmingobject-oriented-programmingscala-libraryscala-programming-languagestandard-library
scala-ide/scala-ide
Jul 2014 - Apr 2015
Scala IDE for Eclipse
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 68 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily focused on improving the testability and stability of the Scala IDE for Eclipse. They wrote and modified JUnit tests for the `PresentationCompilerActivityListener` class, demonstrating expertise in unit testing and test-driven development. Furthermore, they integrated and extended the testing of primitive operations used within the Scala Debugger. They also addressed memory leak issues, fixed bugs, and improved code quality by refactoring the code and updating the license links.
javascalaideeclipse
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