Olaf Minkowicz
Senior Software Engineer at Rise8
Marysville, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolOlaf Minkowicz is a versatile Microsoft software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building front-end driven full‑stack applications, developer tooling, and games. He blends strong JavaScript expertise (React, Vue, Web Components, Svelte) with backend experience in Ruby, Python, Java and C#, and has shipped production work across enterprise, federal, and nonprofit domains. At Microsoft he focused on resilient telemetry, cost-saving automation, and SRE/frontend responsibilities, and he’s delivered DevSecOps and NIST/STIG-aligned security work for federal vets-api programs. A seasoned instructor and mentor, he teaches MERN and cybersecurity fundamentals and has created QA and course content for bootcamps. Outside enterprise engineering he runs RookTKO and produces games and shaders with Phaser, Three.js and GameMaker, demonstrating a rare mix of creative design and systems-level rigor. He’s also a lifelong learner with multiple industry certifications and a background in military intelligence systems engineering, which informs his disciplined approach to secure, auditable systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Specialized Studies in Software Engineering (BS), Specialized Studies in Software Engineering (BS) at Arizona State UniversityAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer Science Programmer Analyst, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer Science Programmer Analyst at Central Texas CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Christ The King Regional HighAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Electronics Technology, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Electronics Technology at Cochise CollegeGraduate Certificate Computer Science, Graduate Certificate Computer Science at Saint Martin's UniversitySoftware Development, Software Development at Western Governors UniversitySpecialized Studies in Computer Science (BS), Specialized Studies in Computer Science (BS) at University of the PeopleGeneral Studies, General Studies at St. Petersburg College
English, Polish, gml, html5, javascript, css3, c#, python, typescript, ruby
Stackoverflow
121reputation
3kreached
12answers
4questions
Github Skills (131)
javascript10
dotnet10
csharp10
open-source10
react10
editor9
gatsby9
api9
fsharp9
microsoft9
asp-net-mvc9
css9
dotnet-core9
addon9
graphql9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RookTKO/BobzBurger
Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:65 commits, 40 pushes in 1 year 3 months
RookTKO/goPongYourself
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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