Summary
Piotr Szyma is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building performant backend services and modern web applications, currently leading a team at Opera. He blends hands-on development in Go, Django, Kubernetes and Docker with technical leadership鈥攑lanning work, improving engineering processes, and liaising with product and business stakeholders. His background includes maintaining large-scale web apps at Google (Closure Library, Angular) and incremental rewrites from server-rendered Django to TypeScript/Vue frontends backed by Django REST services. A Computer Science MSc from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, he pairs strong academic foundations (top grades) with practical experience shipping production systems and automating infrastructure via Ansible. Notably, he combines backend performance focus with frontend modernization experience, making him effective at end-to-end platform evolution.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 5.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 5.0 at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology