Pawel Badenski
Co-Founder at Pricing Monkey
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPawel Badenski is a Co-Founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building distributed systems, developer tools, and startups from London. He combines hands-on back-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like zipkin-js and redux-saga—with product leadership at Pricing Monkey and a prior tech-lead role at ThoughtWorks. His work spans Java, Node.js, Clojure and front-end stacks, with practical experience in tracing, middleware stability and TypeScript typings. Beyond engineering, he trains and coaches teams in communication and emotional intelligence, and pursues applied psychology and Gestalt psychotherapy studies, which inform his collaborative leadership and user-focused product design. An amateur improv actor and meditator, he brings curiosity and listening skills to both technical and people challenges.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, Software Engineering, MSc, Computer Science, Software Engineering at Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyDiploma Gestalt Psychotherapy, Diploma Gestalt Psychotherapy at Metanoia InstituteComputer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of TechnologyPsychological Support Program, Psychological Support Program at Instytut Integralnej Psychoterapii Gestalt
English, Polish
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
redux-saga10
middleware10
tracer10
redis10
distributed-tracing10
redux10
zipkin10
nodejs10
trace10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
testing8
google-cloud-trace6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
redux-saga/redux-saga
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
An alternative side effect model for Redux apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Pawel contributed to the `redux-saga/redux-saga` repository by modifying the core middleware functionality. Their work included reverting a change related to custom emitters, allowing for action transformation/filtering, and permitting the decoration of the built-in emitter. Further contributions focused on fixing potential stack overflows within the scheduler. The changes suggest a focus on enhancing the library's flexibility and stability.
reactredux-sagaside-effectgeneratorsreducers
openzipkin/zipkin-js
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Zipkin instrumentation for Node.js and browsers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 28 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pawel contributed to the `zipkin-js` project by adding support for tracing Redis interactions. They implemented the tracing of Redis's `batch` and `multi` methods, ensuring proper annotations for distributed tracing. The user also fixed a bug related to binary annotations, correcting how the `commands` annotation was recorded in the code. Furthermore, they added TypeScript type definitions to the project.
instrumentationbrowsersnode-jsjavascriptnodejs
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