Mike Walkowiak
Senior Software Engineer at Unite Us
Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMike Walkowiak is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience and six years focused on senior roles, specializing in backend systems built on Ruby on Rails and relational databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL. He has led architecture and implementation of mission-critical platforms—most recently invoicing, claims monitoring, and EDI (837/999) integrations—while routinely improving legacy Rails codebases and data pipelines. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs backend rigor with JavaScript/React front-ends and has driven e-commerce integrations (Shopify, Magento) and heavy data work involving Kafka and Redshift. A regular mentor and interviewer, Mike blends individual contributor impact with team growth, documentation, and process ownership. Based in Arlington Heights, IL, he brings a pragmatic, product-focused mindset informed by early full-stack PHP and .NET experience and an MSc in IT from Gdańsk University of Technology.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
X liceum ogólnokształcące w GdyniMSc, IT, MSc, IT at Gdańsk University of Technology
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Github Skills (9)
perl9
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algorithm6
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java-streams6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
michuW93/microsoft_azure_fundamentals
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:403 commits, 477 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
michuW93/designPatterns
Oct 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:59 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
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