Piotr Szyma
Software Engineer at Opera
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolPiotr 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—planning 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
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Github Skills (43)
python10
django10
api10
rest10
browser-extension9
mypy9
sqlalchemy9
django-rest-framework9
mcl8
vue-component8
server-side-rendering8
test-fixtures8
trend8
testing8
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
W11-Secure-Voting-Solutions/backend
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:46 PRs, 65 pushes, 54 branches in 3 months
piotrszyma/portfolio
Jun 2018 - Oct 2021
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Contributions:17 PRs, 30 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 4 months
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