Szymon Wasik
Director Of R&D Software Engineering at LO Pryzmat – Fundacja Sternik
Warsaw Metropolitan Area Poland
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Top SchoolSzymon Wasik is a research-driven software engineering leader and Director of R&D with nearly a decade of industry experience and a deep academic background including a PhD and habilitation work in computer science. Based in Warsaw, he has led engineering teams at Google (Fitbit) and now ScyllaDB, bridging high-scale product development with university-level research and teaching as an associate professor. He combines hands-on systems design and team leadership with a track record of managing research projects and mentoring students, reflecting a blend of practical delivery and scholarly rigor. An entrepreneurially minded technologist who studied entrepreneurial studies in Alberta, he brings curiosity for real-world impact—teaching at a foundation school while directing R&D—showing a rare commitment to both education and high-performance software.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Alberta School of Business, University of AlbertaHabilitation Computer Science, Habilitation Computer Science at Poznan University of TechnologyMaster Computing Science, Master Computing Science at University of Nottingham
English, German
Github Skills (27)
cassandra10
nosql10
scylla10
seastar10
sql10
cpp10
database10
apache9
cql9
test-automation8
aio8
testing8
async7
server-side7
operator7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
swasik/vector-db-benchmark
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Framework for benchmarking vector search engines from qdrant
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 25 days
swasik/swasik.github.io
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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