Pawel Slowinski
Software Engineer at Whatnot
Dublin, Dublin 1, Poland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPawel Slowinski is a backend-focused software engineer with over 15 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems across e-commerce, payments, and SaaS. He specializes in JVM ecosystems—Java, Kotlin and Scala—and favors strong typing and elegant blends of object-oriented and functional design. Pawel has moved between senior IC and engineering manager roles, most recently leading a team delivering a payments solution for a health and beauty SaaS and now contributing at Whatnot. His background includes high-throughput platforms at Zalando and Groupon, as well as hands-on experience with microservices, Kafka, AWS, and databases like PostgreSQL and DynamoDB. He combines deep technical craftsmanship with a talent for growing engineering teams, and his work is shaped by a pragmatic appreciation for reliable, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Master's degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
English, Polish
Github Skills (25)
elasticsearch-client9
kotlin8
data-access8
api8
spring-data8
testing7
github-app7
java7
spring-boot7
spring7
property-testing6
release-automation5
elasticsearch5
test-framework5
data-driven5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
slowikps/advent-of-code-2020
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
slowikps/advanced-scala
Jun 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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