Rafał Furmański
Software Department Manager at Webright
Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolRafał Furmański is a software leader based in Wrocław with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and leading engineering teams, currently serving as Software Department Manager at Opera Software. He moved up through technical roles at Opera—from backend and platform engineering to project technical manager—bringing deep expertise in Python, Django, REST APIs and large-scale web services. Rafał combines product-minded management with active engineering instincts, evidenced by earlier ownership of web ventures and contributions to the django-nonrel mongodb-engine backend where he modernized connection logic and replica-set handling. His background includes video management system work and mobile app development, showing breadth across backend, frontend and embedded-like systems. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he favors robust, maintainable solutions informed by real production experience.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., Computer Science, 2011, M. Sc., Computer Science, 2011 at Politechnika Wrocławska
English, Polish
Github Skills (9)
replica-set10
backend10
mongodb10
python10
database-design10
back-end-development10
mongodb-database10
django10
pymongo10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
django-nonrel/mongodb-engine
May 2014 - May 2014
Django MongoDB Backend
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Rafał primarily focused on improving the Django MongoDB backend. They made significant changes to the database connection logic, switching from the deprecated `Connection` class to `MongoClient` and `MongoReplicaSetClient`. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs related to indentation, default connection parameters, and the use of replica sets. Their work included handling read preferences and connection options to ensure proper MongoDB configuration.
djangobackendpythonmongodb
r4fek/oauthlib
May 2016 - Jul 2024
A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
request-signingsigningcompliantspec-compliantspec
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