Paul Niedzielski
Senior PHP Programmer at Ibexa
Rudawa, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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RockstarPaul Niedzielski is a Senior PHP Programmer with 12 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems, currently based in Rudawa, Poland and working at Ibexa. He has driven CI adoption, CQRS and microservice practices, and led migrations and integrations across legacy and modern stacks—from SVN-to-Git transitions to Doctrine integration and payment gateway work. An active open-source contributor, Paul has improved developer experience and performance in notable PHP projects like Doctrine MongoDB ODM and Symfony docs, authoring clearer examples and introducing a non-caching hydrator and query optimizations. He brings practical expertise in message queuing and Kafka consumer behavior from contributions to enqueue-dev, showing attention to reliability and duplicate-delivery fixes. Known for pairing hands-on coding with developer advocacy, he often focuses on documentation and examples to make complex features easier to adopt.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Polish, English, French
Github Skills (22)
doctrine10
kafka10
message-queue10
mongodb-database10
rabbitmq10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
influxdb10
odm10
mongodb10
documentation10
doctrine-dbal9
aggregation-framework9
iterator8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
php-enqueue/enqueue-dev
Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
Message Queue, Job Queue, Broadcasting, WebSockets packages for PHP, Symfony, Laravel, Magento. DEVELOPMENT REPOSITORY - provided by Forma-Pro
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 46 commits, 43 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the message queue system. Their work involved implementing features related to topic subscription, including the ability to use either assign or subscribe methods for Kafka consumers. Additionally, they made changes to allow passing a Client as a configuration option and prevent database creation if the Client driver does not support QueryDriverInterface for InfluxDB. They also fixed issues related to DBAL Consumer message duplication and addressing message delivery ID issues.
google-pubsubhaikustompjobmessage-passing
doctrine/mongodb-odm
Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
The Official PHP MongoDB ORM/ODM
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on improving the documentation and code examples for the Doctrine MongoDB ODM library. Their work included updating documentation links, correcting examples, and clarifying the usage of various features like aggregation builders and embedded documents. Furthermore, they introduced a non-caching hydrator and made changes to the query class to improve performance. These contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the developer experience and the library's overall usability.
document-mapperdatabasemapperodmdoctrine
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