Szymon Piłkowski
Senior Rust Engineer at hyperexponential
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolSzymon Piłkowski is a Senior Rust Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience building full-stack systems, from high-performance Rust components to interactive front-ends and data visualisations. He has held engineering leadership roles including VP of Engineering and CTO while continuing to ship hands-on code for startups and clients such as the European Space Agency and Molecule.one. Comfortable across web, real-time backends, and desktop/embedded IoT apps, he blends UX/interaction design sensibilities with pragmatic engineering to simplify complex workflows. An active open-source contributor, his front-end work includes enhancing sprite animation tooling to support multiple rendering backends and DOM integration. Based in Warsaw, he pairs mentorship and team-building with a strong product focus and a subtle emphasis on making technology the means to an end, not the end itself.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at University of Lodz
English, Polish, German, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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62answers
5questions
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Github Skills (15)
html10
dom-manipulation10
javascript10
front-end-development10
animation10
canvas9
css9
version-control6
asp-net6
throbber6
versioning6
dom-events6
xhtml6
jquery6
graphic6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
batiste/sprite.js
Jan 2011 - Jan 2011
An efficient javascript sprite animation framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Szymon primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and features of the sprite animation framework. Their contributions included adding the capability to use existing DOM elements and switching to a global object structure for better access. They also made minor tweaks, improved the input handling for arrow keys, and implemented canvas-based rendering. The user's changes indicate a focus on improving the framework's usability and flexibility for different rendering backends.
animationspriteanimation-frameworkjavascriptsprite-animation
molecule-one/m1wrapper-python
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Molecule One API Wrapper
Contributions:7 reviews, 24 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 2 months
apimoleculeone-apiapi-wrapper
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