Rafał Połomka
Senior Software Engineer at Starburst
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolRafał Połomka is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and payment systems across e-commerce, education, and marketplace platforms. He has driven backend and frontend initiatives—from payment integrations with Stripe, PayU and DotPay to search engines and KYC services—and recently progressed into senior roles at Starburst after a multi-year tenure at merXu and Pearson. Comfortable leading small teams and introducing automation (notably end-to-end frontend testing), Rafał combines hands-on coding with pragmatic architecture decisions that reduce operational friction. Based in Greater Poland, he pairs a Computer Science degree with a track record of delivering mission-critical billing, invoicing and gradebook services, and has a background prototyping AI for home automation that hints at a curiosity for applied ML.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
Polish, English
Github Skills (33)
trino10
sql-query10
data-science10
warehouse10
databases10
distributed-systems10
indexing10
jdbc10
analytics10
java10
hive10
ignite10
sql10
h210
presto10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
polomek/trino
Feb 2024 - May 2024
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
polomek/express-response-stub
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 10 days
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