Paweł Lidwin
Software Developer at Heroic Games Launcher
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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Top SchoolPaweł Lidwin is a software developer from Krakow with six years of hands-on experience building full-stack applications and open-source tooling. Comfortable across frontend frameworks like React and Vue as well as Python, he currently expands his toolset by learning Rust. He contributes significantly to the popular cross-platform Heroic Games Launcher, owning GOG.com integration and cross-platform compatibility improvements that benefit Linux and Steam Deck users. Paweł balances professional roles—now at PLAYTRON—with sustained volunteer engineering on Heroic, demonstrating both product-focused delivery and community-driven maintenance. His background includes short-term industry placements and an Erasmus+ traineeship, reflecting adaptability to diverse teams and fast onboarding. Check his GitHub for live project activity and recent technical work.
6 years of coding experience
Informatics, Informatics at Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza KościuszkiTechnik informatyk, Technik informatyk at Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych w Rzeszowie
English, Polish
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
multiplatform10
electron10
typescript10
cross-platform10
go10
typescript-types10
g10
typescripts10
wine10
react10
platform-independent10
api-design9
apim9
linux9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:182 reviews, 34 commits, 146 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Paweł primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the Heroic Games Launcher. Their work involved redesigning the login screen, implementing features for GOG integration including cloud saves, fixing wine prefix issues and external URL opening. They also updated and integrated gogdl, optimized setup instructions, and addressed issues related to game protocol handling and registry key manipulation. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the launcher's architecture.
protonepicgamesplay-gamesheroic-games-launcher
imLinguin/HiveBeat
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Music app made in React Native, based on YouTube Music's API
Contributions:26 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
musicmusic-playerreact-nativeyoutube-music
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