Michał Szynkiewicz
Staff Software Engineer at Defense Unicorns
Toruń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMichał Szynkiewicz is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and distributed services from Poland. He has driven core infrastructure and product work at Meta and Red Hat, including a sharded, sub-millisecond text matching system and leadership of Quarkus extensions like gRPC and client-side service discovery (SmallRye Stork). A pragmatic polyglot focused on Java/C++/Python ecosystems, he blends systems design, CI/CD and production troubleshooting with hands-on coding and code generation. Active in open source, he has contributed significant backend and gRPC work to prominent projects such as Quarkus and Thorntail, often improving native compilation and service discovery behaviors. Colleagues know him as a builder who can both design scalable architectures and implement the gritty changes needed to make them reliable in production. Outside work he balances engineering with family life as a husband and father of three.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate IT Project Management, Postgraduate IT Project Management at University of WarsawIV LO Toruń
English, Polish
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Github Skills (30)
back-end-development10
microservices-application10
microprofile10
java10
javas10
junit10
quarkus10
jtest10
maven10
microservices10
reactive-programming10
grpc10
websocket9
rest9
gradle9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thorntail/thorntail
Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
Source code for the Thorntail project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 72 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily focused on back-end development tasks, particularly related to the Thorntail framework. They modified Gradle build configurations, and implemented changes to support Consul topology and tag-based service advertisements. Furthermore, they made adjustments to the MP metrics implementation. The user's contributions involved working with Java code and adjusting the internal mechanisms.
javathorntailmavenmicroservices
quarkusio/quarkus
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:537 reviews, 393 commits, 299 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily focused on gRPC-related improvements within the Quarkus framework. They implemented gRPC logging fixes and addressed issues related to multiple gRPC server instances. Furthermore, the user contributed to implementing gRPC client interceptors, which points to a deeper understanding of the framework and its gRPC integration. In addition, the user worked on code generation related to gRPC, creating health and reflection stubs.
kubernetesquarkusjavareactivecloud-native
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