Szymon Wiszczuk
Staff Software Engineer at NordVPN
Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolSzymon Wiszczuk is a Staff Software Engineer based in Wrocław with eight years of hands-on experience building full‑stack systems using JS/TS, Go and Rust, and a pragmatic "whatever-is-needed" approach to shipping features. At NordVPN he progressed from senior to staff roles leading R&D, cross‑product architecture and business initiatives including the nexos.ai startup, while also mentoring and hiring engineering talent. He contributes to notable open-source projects like react-bootstrap, improving components and tests, which underscores a strong front‑end craftsmanship alongside backend fluency. Comfortable moving between product, engineering and people responsibilities, he combines fast prototyping with attention to testability and maintainability. An interesting facet: he pairs practical production work with active R&D on bleeding‑edge tooling and AI productization.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier (Inż.), Computer Science, Inżynier (Inż.), Computer Science at Politechnika Wrocławska
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
react-components10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
react-component10
testing9
bootstrap9
bootstra9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
react-bootstrap/react-bootstrap
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Bootstrap components built with React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 35 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Szymon primarily contributed to the enhancement and testing of React-Bootstrap components. Their work included adding new properties to existing components like `Toast`, fixing issues related to form controls, and refactoring tests to use RTL (React Testing Library). The user also modified code related to the modal and ensured correct behavior of the overlay trigger. They demonstrated expertise in component-based UI development, testing, and debugging within the React ecosystem.
reactbuilt-with-reactbootstrap-componentsjavascriptreact-components
golota60/watch-doges
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
http://www.watchdoges.com - i didn't pay for hosting this year sooooooooooooooooo
Contributions:17 commits, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
hostingpay
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