Robert Firek
Senior Software Engineer at Taaffeite Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Firek is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of professional experience designing and shipping Java-based systems across finance, telecoms, e-commerce and cloud-native platforms. He combines hands-on engineering—building microservices, CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-based internal IaaS—with strong software craftsmanship practices like TDD, pair programming and continuous delivery. As founder/consultant at Taaffeite he has delivered bespoke solutions from broadband order-management to LaTeX-to-PDF automation and analytics platforms, showing an ability to bridge developer ergonomics and production reliability. He has led security and platform improvement projects at organisations such as Zopa and Personio, shaping shared libraries and cross-team delivery. Colleagues know him as a mentor who elevates teams through coaching and practical XP adoption, not just individual contribution. Trained as a software engineer in Wrocław, he pairs deep Java backend experience with a pragmatic, architecture-minded approach to solving complex integration problems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
magister inzynier Software engineering, magister inzynier Software engineering at Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Polish, English
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Github Skills (61)
graph10
terraform10
testing9
kotlin9
docker9
golang9
go9
infrastructure-as-code9
cpp8
elixir8
haskell8
assemble8
harbor8
moby8
java8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
robertfirek/prezentacje
Aug 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
codurance/simple_rest
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:12 PRs, 26 pushes, 24 branches in 4 months
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