Piotr Kukiełka
Principal Software Engineer at VirtusLab
Cracow Metropolitan Area Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPiotr Kukiełka is a Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years building high-performance, cross-platform systems across Windows, Linux, BSDs, Solaris, AIX and ARM-based environments. He brings deep C/C++ expertise in concurrent programming, networking and low-level debugging, complemented by strong Scala skills—Akka, Play, and improving Scala tooling and compiler performance at scale. Piotr has led platform- and team-level initiatives (including migrating CI to pipelines, creating Gradle plugins and Zinc/IntelliJ integrations) and driven FinTech and enterprise projects at Morgan Stanley, VirtusLab and Databricks. He’s an active contributor to the Scala IDE debugger, implementing nuanced language support like implicit classes and varargs handling—evidence of his focus on developer ergonomics and toolchain reliability. Comfortable across Java, C#, Python and scripting, he blends systems-level rigor with pragmatic product delivery. Based in Kraków, he pairs a research-rooted Computer Science education with a track record of shaving compilation times and shipping robust distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree Computer Science, Licentiate degree Computer Science at Jagiellonian University
Polish, English
Github Skills (11)
debugging10
eval10
debug10
evaluator10
eclipse10
expression10
evaluation10
expressions10
scala10
javas8
java8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
scala-ide/scala-ide
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Scala IDE for Eclipse
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 32 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily worked on debugging and enhancing the Scala IDE for Eclipse. Their commits focus on the expression evaluator within the debugger, involving changes to expression evaluation, handling of breakpoints, and improvements to the debug target. The user implemented support for features like implicit classes, methods as functions, and varargs, demonstrating a focus on core debugging and language feature support within the Scala environment.
javascalaideeclipse
pkukielka/stronghold-defense
May 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:61 commits in 6 months
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