Summary
Monique Szpak is a director-level technologist and hands-on consultant with 13 years’ experience delivering software, data engineering and technical project management from London. She specializes in data archaeology, scraping, migration and design, famously recovering a “lost” database from a CDN cache of HTML files and twice-yearly publishing large Open Repair datasets. Monique bridges jargon and implementation across Agile and Waterfall environments, balancing specification-writing, estimation and pragmatic development. At The Restart Project she shapes Open Repair Data standards and citizen-science microtasks (“Quests”), contributing to an EU prize-winning community initiative. Proficient in SQL, APIs, NLP and multiple programming languages, she pairs open-source practice with everyday tooling expertise (Google Sheets wizardry) and volunteers as a repair-cafe fixer. Her current side project is a toolkit for exploring Open Repair Data—reflecting a consistent focus on rescuing and making broken data useful.
13 years of coding experience