Łukasz Ostrowski's Resume

Łukasz Ostrowski

Product Engineer. Building software that works and scales

Bielsko-Biała / Kraków, Poland, CET

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About

Product Engineer with over 10 years of experience in building web apps and leading teams.
Mainly Node.js and React stack.
Working remotely since 2019.
Leading teams since 2020.

Work Experience

Saleor Commerce

2022 - Present

Principal Software Developer

Programming: Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, React, Frontend, Backend, Python, Django, Serverless, AWS, Open Source.
Occasionally product owner. Team leader / tech lead / engineering manager.
Company-wide initiatives as a principal engineer (e.g. building incident on-call processes, knowledge sharing, refinement processes etc).
Working in open source and community. Project management. QA / DevOps / XP. Software architecture. Career development. Recruitment.
  • Remote
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • GraphQL
  • Django
  • AWS
  • Open Source
  • Team Lead
  • Libraries
  • Docs

NoA Ignite

2021 - 2022

Technology Advisor & Frontend tech lead

  • Leading a frontend technology competence in the organisation. Mentoring developers on every seniority level.
  • Designed and implemented careers/self-development program, working with engineers helping to grow hard & soft skills.
  • Designed a cross-competency recruitment process, established company-wise rules for hiring. Performing recruitment of technology and business positions, especially senior-level.
  • Working with non-technical managers to educate and facilitate technical challenges. Working with board on strategic decisions, looking from technology perspective.
  • Sales. Bootstrapping projects, software architecture (app level, serverless). Development of more complex parts of applications, designing solutions.
  • Organization-level process design ("guilds", career development, recruitment, self-dev trainings, competence profiles and more).
  • Influencing partnerships. Working on implementing e-commerce segment in the organization. Running software audits. Running workshops and trainings for teams (e.g. refactoring, testing).
  • Facilitating meetings and workshops
  • Team lead
  • Architect
  • Consulting
  • Sales
  • Recruiting

Mytek Audio

2020 - 2021

Fullstack developer & project manager

As an engineer I have created a fullstack kiosk/embedded-like application, GUI for audiophile high quality audio device. Tech stack is mainly Electron, Node, React, Nest.js API, PWAs, websockets, lot of animations and perf optimization.
As a project manager I was coordinating the fully remote team of 6+, define scope, design architecture, create documentation, define graphical/UI work for designers, main point of contact for stakeholders.
  • React
  • Electron
  • Node.js
  • Team Lead
  • Nest.js
  • Websockets
  • PWA

Codibly

2020 - 2021

Senior Fullstack Developer

Working on projects with React, Node, TypeScript. Designing frontend architecture across the company. Running internal workshops for the team. Running client workshops. Leading teams. Mentoring junior devs. Recruitment.
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Mentoring
  • Team Lead
  • Recruiting

Ideamotive

2019 - 2020

Senior Frontend Developer

Working on projects with React, Node, TypeScript. Designing frontend architecture across the company. Running internal workshops for the team. Running client workshops. Leading teams. Mentoring junior devs. Recruitment. Several projects, mainly as contract for startups.
  • React
  • Frontend

The Software House

2019 - 2019

Senior Frontend Developer via Ideamotive

I was on a 5-months contract, creating a map-based platform, similar to Apple's Find My.
App consumed real-time GPS data from beacons and drawn them on the map. Additionally some geometry, clustering and other stuff
  • React
  • Leaflet

SportsBroker

2018 - 2018

Javascript Developer

I was working on SportsBroker app - sports/gambling/stock app written in Angular stack, including firebase, Node.js backend and native mobile apps. I was responsible on delivering, business processes and architecture of frontend and communication.
Except main app, I was working on internal backoffice and landing page - including React with SSR and static site generation, Redux, MobX and modern React stack.
I was reviewing and occasionally contributing to Node.js backend (Nest.js, Express, Kafka, Firebase).
When the team grew, I become a team lead of 3 frontend engineers.
  • Team lead
  • React
  • Angular
  • Firebase

nTitle

2018 - 2018

Fullstack javascript developer contractor

I was responsible for delivering web (frontend and backend) app - the demo of blockchain dApp.
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Design
  • Blockchain
  • Frontend

Schibsted Tech Polska

2017 - 2017

Javascript developer

Developing mostly frontend javascript code in cutting edge React/Redux stack and a bit of node.js APIs.
During 4 months period I created https://www.vg.no/reise and cooperated with several existing projects. Occasionally contributed to Node.js backend.
Worked in ~6 people team in Kanban.
  • Node.js
  • React
  • Frontend

Creativestyle

2015 - 2017

Frontend developer

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  • E-commerce
  • Vue.js
  • React
  • Angular
  • Frontend

Skills

    Side projects

    Wyjehau (2021)

    A community-driven map with dog-friendly places in Poland.

    • Leaflet
    • Next.js
    • Sanity CMS
    • Typescript

    Wiedza Babel (barcamps)

    Co-hosting with my wife a local IT barcamp, focused on unifying knowledge of designers, developers and business/management sectors to 'speak common language'.

    • Events
    • Community

    Coders Lab (2018)

    Teaching Javascript one semester in the biggest polish programming bootcamp.

    • Mentoring