Piotr Maślanka is a Senior Software Engineer and polyglot technologist with 13 years of hands-on experience across embedded, cloud, and distributed systems, currently at Ericsson and co-founder/CTO of SMOK. He combines deep backend expertise (Python, Java, PostgreSQL, Cassandra) with embedded and platform-level work on AVR, ARM, Intel and even mainframe architectures, and is an active open-source contributor who added a Cassandra result backend to the popular Celery project. Piotr also serves as an expert witness in IT systems and computer forensics, reflecting a rare blend of engineering depth and forensic rigor. Comfortable running ops, devops, R&D and small-company management, he prefers coding over management and claims to be a one-person IT department across multiple platforms. Off-duty he writes about engineering on his blog, loves seals, and holds a diverse technical education including a PhD track in electrical engineering.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at Politechnika Rzeszowska im. Ignacego Łukasiewicza
IT Technician, Internet Applications, with honors, IT Technician, Internet Applications, with honors at Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych w Rzeszowie
Bachelor's degree, Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic), 4.64, Bachelor's degree, Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic), 4.64 at University of Rzeszow
AGH University
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, A, with honors, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, A, with honors at Politechnika Rzeszowska im. Ignacego Łukaszewicza
With honors, With honors at First Junior High School in Rzeszów
Contributions:45 commits, 5 PRs, 29 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily contributed to the development of a new Cassandra backend for Celery, a distributed task queue. Their work involved implementing the backend using the DataStax driver for Cassandra, including the necessary initialization, result storage, and retrieval logic. The contributions also included updates to the documentation and setup files to support and integrate the new backend, as well as fixing various bugs. The user's work directly expanded the supported result backends for the Celery project.
Contributions:2 releases, 38 commits, 34 pushes in 2 months
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Piotr Maślanka - Senior Software Engineer at SMOK sp. z o.o.