Michał Słowikowski
QA Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichał Słowikowski is a QA engineer and software engineer with nine years of experience blending testing rigor, full-stack development, and open-source contributions from Warsaw. He has hands-on experience building and maintaining React/TypeScript frontends and backend services at Snowflake, while moving into a QA leadership role at CTHINGS.CO and deepening cybersecurity skills through Kali Linux training. An active Apache contributor and Kibble PMC member, he’s made concrete backend changes to high-profile projects like Apache Airflow, demonstrating a strong grasp of large codebases and CI/test ecosystems. His approach ranges from “how to test this” to “how to break this,” reflecting a hacker mindset that strengthens product resilience. Earlier roles across testing, deployment, and customer-facing positions give him strong cross-functional collaboration and problem-solving instincts. He combines pragmatic engineering with a growing security focus, making him adept at preventing defects and hardening systems before they reach production.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Software Testing, Postgraduate studies, Software Testing, Postgraduate studies at Akademia Finansów i Biznesu VistulaKali Linux, Kali Linux at Kali Linux Bootcamp (IT DEVELOP)
Polish, English
Github Skills (14)
testing10
python10
airflow10
gcp10
cloud-computing9
google-cloud-platform9
workflow-engine8
automations8
automation8
apache-airflow8
data-engineering8
orchestration7
orchestra7
google-compute-engine7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:119 reviews, 71 PRs, 284 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Michał's contributions focused on refactoring and renaming ComputeEngine operators within the Apache Airflow project. They updated test files to reflect the renaming of the operators, demonstrating a solid understanding of the project's structure and dependencies. The changes primarily involved updating test files to reflect renaming of operators within the project. These commits involved specific file modifications related to tests within Google Cloud Platform compute hooks.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
michalslowikowski00/coffe_maker
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:11 PRs, 43 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 9 months
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