Mikołaj Palkiewicz
Senior Founding Engineer at Open Source
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMikołaj Palkiewicz is a senior founding engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of hands-on experience building browsers, security tooling, and ML-enabled systems from Poland. He co-founded and served as CTO of Wexond, a Chromium-based browser and open-source framework, exiting to Redbrick at 19, and later led engineering at Fingerprint where he contributed to the prominent BotD browser bot-detection library. Passionate about pushing LLM capabilities, his bachelor’s thesis implemented an LLM agent that safely executes arbitrary tools in a Linux sandbox with planning, reflection, and a custom state machine. Now a Senior Founding Engineer at Vidoc Security Lab, he blends product-building instincts with deep technical craft across full-stack, Rust, and security domains. An active open-source maintainer since 2015, he treats OSS as his primary learning and impact channel, ranging from compilers to finance libraries. Curious and pragmatic, he specializes in practical ML/LLM research that integrates into production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatyka i ekonometria, Bachelor's degree Informatyka i ekonometria at University of Gdansk
Polish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
typescript10
automation10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
automations10
typescripts10
browser-api9
web-development9
headless-browser8
chromeless8
chrome8
selenium7
puppeteer7
selenium-ide7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fingerprintjs/BotD
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Free bot detection library that runs in the browser. Detects automation tools and frameworks. No server required, runs 100% on the client. MIT license, no usage restrictions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 54 reviews, 217 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mikołaj focused on the implementation and enhancement of a browser-based bot detection library. Their contributions included proposing and implementing a new architecture for the detection system, introducing new signals and refining existing ones. The user also added detectors for various bot frameworks and tools, demonstrating a strong understanding of bot detection techniques and front-end development principles. They worked with JavaScript and TypeScript to collect and analyze data, and integrate various browser features for detection.
automationbot-detectionbotspuppeteerselenium
nersent/qpace
Aug 2024 - Nov 2025
📊 The Quant SDK for Python and Javascript. Written in Rust.
Contributions:14 PRs, 169 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
javascriptpythonrustbacktestpandas-ta
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