Michał Walenciak
Full Stack Developer at ArdentCode
Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichał Walenciak is a Full Stack Developer with 13 years of hands-on experience, currently building web solutions at ArdentCode after progressing from intern to senior roles within the company. He combines back-end systems knowledge—demonstrated by contributions fixing multithreading and BigTIFF parsing in the widely used Exiv2 image metadata library—with front-end and localization work, having translated and polished UIs for popular open-source tools like SimpleScreenRecorder and Media Downloader. Based in Poland with a Magister inżynier in Computer Science, he brings practical C++/Qt and .NET experience from prior roles while shipping production-ready features. Notably, his open-source contributions show attention to concurrency, memory safety, and accessibility for Polish users, reflecting a balance of low-level problem solving and user-focused polish.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Magister inżynier (Mgr inż.), Computer Science, Magister inżynier (Mgr inż.), Computer Science at Politechnika Opolska
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
qt10
translation10
multithreading10
metadata10
image-data10
localization10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
exif9
assembly9
file-parsing9
cmake9
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data-structures9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
MaartenBaert/ssr
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
SimpleScreenRecorder, a screen recorder for Linux
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:47 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily contributed to the project by translating the user interface into Polish. Their work involved fixing typos, finishing translation sections, and updating existing translations. This demonstrates a focus on making the software accessible to Polish-speaking users and improving the overall user experience for that locale. The contributions were focused on the `src/translations/simplescreenrecorder_pl.ts` file.
recorderlinuxscreen-recorder
Exiv2/exiv2
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
Image metadata library and tools
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 commits, 15 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily focused on improving the image metadata library. They addressed multithreading issues by moving the `tagName()` function into the `Image` class and modifying its internal data structures. Furthermore, the user refactored and improved the BigTIFF parsing functionality, including adapting the code to the BigTIFF header format and fixing potential memory allocation issues. These changes directly impact the core functionality of the image metadata library.
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