Summary
Patrick Kowalski is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver with 12 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems, currently focused on fintech at Finlync. He has led teams and API platform design at AXA, enabling partner integrations and high-throughput policy processing, and has a strong history of building RESTful services, graph-DB-backed systems, and both relational and NoSQL data stores. Patrick’s background ranges from startup infrastructure and lead backend roles to agency work for large clients, giving him a pragmatic balance of architecture, performance tuning, and hands-on delivery. He’s comfortable across the stack—API design, database optimization, Linux deployments, and mobile-backend integrations—and has repeatedly taken point between business and engineering to drive product-aligned technical decisions. Notably, he has experience creating custom Neo4j wrappers and designing systems with caching, load balancing, and fault considerations in mind. Passionate about experimenting with new web technologies, he maintains a public GitHub presence for code and exploration.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Education, Information Technology, Diploma of Education, Information Technology at Thompson Rivers University
Polish, English