Tomasz Szczęśniak-szlagowski
Senior Software Engineer at Bespoke Inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTomasz Szczęśniak-szlagowski is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and refining production software across startups and established companies, currently based in Chiyoda, Japan. He has progressed from junior roles to lead positions, delivering backend systems and parser logic improvements at projects like mermaid-js/mermaid and driving engineering at Bespoke Inc. and GlobalSign. Tomasz combines practical backend engineering, system administration experience, and formal CS training (MSc) to tackle parsing, rendering, and error-handling challenges that often sit at the intersection of tooling and UX. His open-source contributions to mermaid show attention to subtle parsing edge cases and SVG/CSS robustness—work that improves diagram generation relied upon by many developers and docs teams.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w KrakowieComputer Science, Computer Science at Radboud Universiteit NijmegenMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
diagram10
javascript10
typescripts10
text-parsing10
parsing10
flowchart10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mermaid-js/mermaid
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 22 days
Contributions summary:Tomasz contributed to the `mermaid-js/mermaid` repository, which is focused on diagram generation from text. Their commits focused on modifying the parser logic for flowcharts, specifically allowing node IDs to have keywords as suffixes and improving the ellipse shape's parsing. They also addressed a bug in the CSS cloning error handler within the utility functions of the project, ensuring correct SVG styling. These changes indicate a focus on refining the functionality and error handling within the parsing and rendering components of the library.
diagramsflowchartssequencesequence-diagramssimilar
spect88/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 comment in 8 years 2 months
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