Piotr Pałek
Senior Frontend Engineer at Housecall Pro
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPiotr Pałek is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 13 years of software development experience, currently shaping user-facing systems at Housecall Pro. He brings deep front-end expertise across React, Angular, Vue and Ember while also comfortable working in vanilla JavaScript and contributing to backend stacks like Ruby on Rails and Node.js. Piotr has a strong grounding in agile practices and TDD, having led frontend efforts, mentored junior engineers, and introduced new frameworks at consulting shops. His open-source contributions include practical mobile-focused fixes to the widely followed Bluesky Social app, improving image cropping and modal handling for iOS. Based in Lower Silesia, Poland, he combines pragmatic problem-solving with attention to polished UX and cross-platform consistency. Colleagues rely on him for reliable, test-driven implementations that bridge frontend frameworks and legacy codebases.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Technik, Informatyka, Technik, Informatyka at ZSE Opole
English, German, Polish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
croppie10
image-cropper10
crop-image10
cropper10
react10
mobile-development9
typescripts8
user-interface8
typescript-types8
typescript8
webpages7
web-content7
ruby-on-rails6
emberjs6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bluesky-social/social-app
Apr 2024 - May 2024
The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:1 PR, 5 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily focused on improving the image cropping functionality within the Bluesky mobile app. Their commits addressed a crash issue when canceling the cropper, allowed for custom aspect ratios, and hid unnecessary ratio buttons. These contributions involved modifications to the web-based image cropper implementation and adjustments to the modal handling, enhancing the user experience when modifying images. The user also added a missing utility file related to image dimension calculations.
piotrpalek/lc-sample-widget
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:63 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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