Paulina Grudzień
Senior Software Engineer at Fandom
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulina Grudzień is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building front-end and full-stack features at Fandom, where she progressed from intern to senior engineer. She combines a bioinformatics academic background with practical web engineering, bringing analytical rigor to UI development and cross-team integrations. Her contributions span both client-side work and back-end changes—she has modified PHP ad-engine and recirculation logic in the well-known Wikia/app repository, demonstrating comfort with legacy code and monetization systems. Based in Greater Poland, she excels at shipping product-facing features and adapting to evolving codebases in large, community-driven platforms. Colleagues value her steady growth trajectory and ability to translate domain knowledge into maintainable engineering solutions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Licencjat (Lic.), Bioinformatics, Licencjat (Lic.), Bioinformatics at Politechnika PoznańskaBioinformatics, Bioinformatics at Bielefeld University
English, German, Polish
Github Skills (3)
php10
mediawiki10
javascript9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Wikia/app
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Wikia Application Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 75 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Paulina primarily contributed to the Wikia/app repository by modifying PHP files, specifically related to ad engine and recirculation functionality. Their work included adding and modifying variables within DefaultSettings.php, updating AdEngine3InstantGlobals.class.php, and adjusting the RecirculationController.class.php. These changes seem to be focused on ad integration and content display, as well as ensuring proper functionality with respect to changes in a related 'dev' branch. Additionally, the user made code modifications related to a new ad engine x-click tracking function.
wikiphpwikiamediawiki
Loczi94/codeforpoznan.pl_v3
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 8 branches in 10 months
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