Paweł Szafer is a seasoned network administrator with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and operating secure, resilient IT infrastructures across Greater Poland. He has implemented AD forests across distant sites, deployed pfSense-based routers, NAS, VPN and VoIP systems, and led migrations to open-source solutions to reduce cost and increase control. Comfortable with both hardware and software layers, he has designed wired and wireless networks (WPA2/RADIUS), VLANs and backup systems for new builds and legacy environments. Beyond operations, Paweł contributes to open-source frontend work for the widely used Home Assistant project, improving UI/UX and energy graph displays—an atypical blend of network engineering and user-facing development. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Politechnika Poznańska and brings a pragmatic, improvement-focused approach to infrastructure and tooling.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, 4, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, 4 at Politechnika Poznańska
Contributions:10 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Paweł primarily contributed to the frontend of the Home Assistant project, focusing on improving the user interface and experience. Their commits involved fixing UI issues, adding tooltips for better information display, and adapting energy-related graph components for gas usage. The user also addressed issues related to entity settings and unit display, indicating a focus on improving the overall usability and data presentation within the frontend.
Contributions:2 releases, 46 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 6 months
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