Piotr Sowiński
CTO & Co-Founder at NeverBlink
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPiotr Sowiński is a technology leader and co-founder driving NeverBlink’s work on next-generation knowledge graphs and neurosymbolic systems, including Jelly — a high-performance RDF streaming protocol that minimizes communication overhead. With six years of experience spanning research and engineering, he blends hands-on backend development (notably contributions to the MediaWiki core) with academic collaborations across European labs and Horizon 2020 projects. He leads a team of engineers and researchers to ship production-ready streaming KG systems while pursuing a PhD in computer science, demonstrating a rare mix of startup execution and rigorous research. Based in Warsaw, he also maintains an active technical blog and open-source footprint, signaling a commitment to reproducible research and community-driven engineering.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (in progress), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (in progress), Computer Science at Warsaw University of TechnologyUniversity of West Bohemia, Pilsen
Polish, English
Github Skills (5)
php10
mediawiki10
back-end-development10
phpunit8
wikipedia6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily contributes to the MediaWiki core codebase, focusing on improving and refactoring existing functionalities. Their work includes fixing PHP errors in maintenance scripts, creating and modifying classes like `EditResult` and `PageUpdater` to handle edit results. Additionally, the user has made several changes to improve the handling of undos, along with implementing changes in action=mcrundo. These modifications reflect a focus on the backend logic and the workflow of the platform.
wikimediaphpwikipediacollaborative-editingruns
RiverBench/riverbench.github.io
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
RiverBench website
Contributions:1 release, 22 PRs, 179 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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