Miroslaw Stanek is a pragmatic technology leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling client-side and mobile engineering teams, currently leading Papaya Global’s Polish engineering site after serving as Director of Engineering. He has repeatedly moved from hands-on Android development to senior leadership—shaping mobile products at Azimo and contributing to notable open-source Android projects like InstaMaterial and AndroidDevMetrics. Comfortable across product lifecycle stages, he combines practical UI/UX improvements and performance engineering with organizational design to deliver reliable, production-grade software. Based in Krakow, he pairs formal studies in computer science and AI with a maker’s background (co-founding a mobile shop and early web/audio work), which informs a pragmatic, developer-empowering management style.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Technician, Electronics, Technician, Electronics at Zespół Szkół Łączności w Krakowie
Artificial Intelligence Engineer Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence Engineer Nanodegree at Udacity
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
Performance metrics library for Android development (includes dagger2metrics)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Miroslaw's primary focus was on enhancing the Android application's performance and functionality. They implemented warning levels and updated the layout within the dagger2metrics-runtime module. Furthermore, the user refactored code, removed unused activity, and fixed a potential null pointer exception. Additionally, the user updated the project dependencies. Finally, the user transitioned the project name to AndroidDevMetrics and configured frame drop metrics.
Implementation of Instagram with Material Design (originally based on Emmanuel Pacamalan's concept)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:1 release, 124 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Miroslaw primarily contributed to the development of the Android application, implementing various UI elements and animations to enhance the user experience. They worked on creating the layout for feed posts, adding intro animations for the toolbar, FAB, and feed items. Furthermore, the user integrated the support design library's floating action button and snackbar. Also, the user refactored the code, updated dependencies and made enhancements to the user profile screen.
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Miroslaw Stanek - PL Engineering Site Lead at Papaya Global