Waldemar Panas
Software Engineering Manager at Poznań Java User Group
Poznan, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolWaldemar Panas is a Software Engineering Manager at Allegro with a decade of experience transforming legacy systems into resilient microservices using Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka and service mesh patterns. He rose from junior engineer to team leader in three years and now balances hands-on coding with people leadership, recruiting, and quality stewardship for high-throughput services backed by MongoDB and Cassandra. An active contributor to open-source Java projects, he has improved build and deployment pipelines for notable libraries like JaVers, reflecting a knack for DevOps and project lifecycle engineering. Outside of work he shapes the Java community as a leader of the Poznań JUG and a GeeCON organizer, showing he’s as invested in knowledge-sharing as in shipping reliable systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Computer Science, Engineer Computer Science at Poznan University of Technology
English, German, Polish
Github Skills (12)
javas10
gradlew10
cicd10
java10
gradle10
spock9
groovy9
maven9
test-container8
dockers7
docker7
fest5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
javers/javers
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
JaVers - object auditing and diff framework for Java
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 year
Contributions summary:Waldemar primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the build and deployment processes. They addressed issues related to missing methods in Java 8, and migrated the project to Spock 2.0 and Groovy 3.0. Further, the user updated build scripts (gradlew, deploy.sh, and travis/deployToSonatype.sh) and dependencies for publishing the project to a Maven repository (Sonatype Nexus), indicating a focus on DevOps and project lifecycle management.
javaauditingdiff
wpanas/testcontainers-examples
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Bunch of sample projects that showcase how to use Testcontainers with Spring Boot, JUnit 5, Kotest together with PostgreSQL or Kafka. Finally, this repo shows not only how to test with Testcontainers, but also how to run your application locally
Contributions:74 commits, 74 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 years 3 months
spring-boottest-automationselenidedockerkotlin
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