Zbyszko Papierski
Search Lead at ERLI
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolZbyszko Papierski is a search-focused architect and engineering leader with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale search systems across companies like Wikimedia, Brainly, and Allegro. He currently serves as Search Lead at ERLI and consults on search at Triviality, combining hands-on engineering with team leadership and solution architecture. His background spans full lifecycle search work—indexing, relevance, query answering and distributed system design—using technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, Cassandra and graph-backed knowledge sources. Known for moving between individual contributor and managerial roles, he has repeatedly stepped into domain lead positions to stabilize and scale search teams and pipelines. Based in Gdańsk and open to remote opportunities, he blends pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking to improve user query satisfaction. An often-overlooked strength is his experience tuning search for high-traffic, highly distributed environments, honed at marketplace and community platforms.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Nicolaus Copernicus University
Polish, English, German, Japanese, russsian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
triplestore10
puppet10
immutable-collections10
java10
shacl10
querying10
vavr9
gerrit9
mediawiki9
linked-data9
drawing9
wikimedia9
semantic-web9
mirror9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zbyszkop/js-tdd-workshop
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
zbyszkop/remote-bowling-kata
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Group Bowling TDD Kata with instruction for remote execution added
Contributions:34 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
remote-executionbowlinginstructiontdd-kataexecution
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