Piotr Horzycki
Staff Software Engineer, Team Leader at Fandom
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolPiotr Horzycki is a Staff Software Engineer and team leader based in Gdańsk with over nine years of professional experience building high-traffic web platforms in Java and PHP. He currently leads engineering for Fandom’s Wiki Platform, operating a custom MediaWiki farm that serves 250M+ monthly users and powering entertainment sites like Metacritic and TVGuide. Previously he led fintech and adtech projects—delivering real-time payments, open banking integrations and secure gateway features—bringing strong database optimization and security experience. A certified Professional Scrum Master I, Piotr pairs hands-on coding with team mentorship and system-level architecture decisions. He is an active open-source contributor (mPDF, MoneyPHP), author of the ebook "Mastering PDF with PHP" and a regular conference speaker across Europe. Less obvious: his background spans both server ops and product-facing UX work, giving him a rare blend of platform scalability and end-user feature sensibility.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier (Inż.) Informatyka, Inżynier (Inż.) Informatyka at Lodz University of Technology
Polish, English
Stackoverflow
331reputation
13kreached
22answers
0questions
Github Skills (51)
oop10
cjk10
utf10
css10
pdf10
pdf-files10
pattern10
dompdf10
php10
currency-exchange10
currency10
currency-converter10
pdf-generation10
currency-exchange-rates10
php-library10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
peterdevpl/peterdevpl.github.io
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:71 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
peterdevpl/decarte
Mar 2017 - Nov 2023
decARTe online shop
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 310 pushes in 6 years 9 months
djangoshoponline-shop
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