Robert Kruszewski
Co-Founder, President at Spiral
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Kruszewski is a London-based software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building and deploying production software, now co-founding and leading Spiral. He spent nearly a decade at Palantir across forward-deployed and core engineering roles, shipping integrations and tooling that bridge client needs with scalable backend systems. An active open-source contributor, Robert has improved and modernised Palantir’s widely used gradle-baseline plugins—adding compatibility and CI tooling like a CircleCI plugin—demonstrating attention to developer experience and code quality. Early roles at Khan Academy and Morgan Stanley show a strong data-and-product mindset, from Hive analytics and dashboards to RESTful services for financial workflows. He pairs deep technical chops from an Imperial College MEng in Computer Science with hands-on leadership experience running student organisations and a startup, often focusing on pragmatic refactors that unlock long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ingmar Bergman IB World School 1531MEng Computer Science Computer Science, MEng Computer Science Computer Science at Imperial College LondonJabłonna
English, Polish
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Github Skills (17)
android-gradle-plugin10
software-quality10
java10
baseline10
javas10
gradle-plugin10
gradlew10
gradle10
testing9
junit9
checkstyle9
error-prone9
cython6
mathematical-optimization6
bin-packing6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/gradle-baseline
May 2016 - Apr 2022
A set of Gradle plugins that configure default code quality tools for developers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 19 reviews, 55 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributes to the `gradle-baseline` project, which provides Gradle plugins for code quality. Their contributions involve fixing bugs in the existing plugins, adding new plugins, and refactoring the plugin to support newer versions of Gradle. The user's work ensures the project's compatibility and maintains the code quality standards. They also introduce new tooling such as the CircleCI plugin.
spotbugsocto-correct-managedgradlepmdgradle-plugins
spiraldb/vortex
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
An extensible, state of the art columnar file format
Contributions:1639 reviews, 864 PRs, 1332 pushes in 1 year
arrayarrowcompressionpythonrust
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