Hello! My name is
Pawel Golonko
and I'm a web developer.
About me
Web developer with over 19 years' experience in creating a wide variety of web solutions, from small business websites to complex e-commerce platforms and enterprise applications used by specialists around the world. Familiar with all phases of the software development lifecycle. Finds Zen in the aesthetic code.
Geek in love with coding, sound, and visuals, preferably at the same time.
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Experience
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November 2023 – present
Aize
Principal Software Engineer
Leading the development of the Design System and Data Visualization libraries used in Aize applications.
- Crafting a unified and consistent user experience across products by creating and refining design patterns, components, and guidelines.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including designers, developers, and product managers, to ensure efficient and cohesive development processes.
- Contributing to enhancing the quality and usability of Aize products.
- Mentoring and guiding fellow engineers, cultivating a culture of collaboration.
Angular Typescript D3 NX Storybook GitLab Figma
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May 2019 – October 2023
Circle K Business Centre / Madiff
Senior Front-end Developer
Built a scalable system enabling the execution of Angular pages with content served by a decoupled Drupal using the JSON:API protocol.
- Designed and implemented a solution that allowed for the creation of customized landing pages in the Drupal CMS and dynamically rendered them in an Angular application.
- Developed an e-commerce module integrated with internal and external services such as Salesforce, Adyen, or Klarna.
- Optimized the application for better performance and accessibility.
- Collaborated with business and team members to provide the most valuable product.
- Worked together with UI/UX designers on the implementation of the design system.
- Improved the branching and release workflows.
Angular Typescript NX NestJS SSR JSONAPI
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July 2018 – May 2019
ITDS Business Consultants
Front-end Developer
Developing applications and tools for banking company clients (i.e. Credit Suisse), such as:
- Credit risk dashboards,
- A gamified in-house platform for employee engagement.
AngularJS Angular TypeScript SASS ag-Grid
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March 2015 – April 2018
LogZilla Corporation
Lead UI Architect
LogZilla is the leader in delivering real-time network insight with an intelligent network operations platform.
As a Lead UI Architect I was responsible for the entire process of creating the user interface for
LogZilla 5.x, during which I:- Built an application capable of processing huge volumes of data (up to 1M events per seconds) and rendering the results in real time.
- Researched and implemented new functionalities.
- Refined existing UX/UI projects and prototyped new components.
- Led an international team of developers.
- Collaborated with the backend developers team to improve communication performance between server and client.
- Created and maintained an automated build system.
AngularJS JavaScript LESS Bootstrap ECharts WebSocket NodeJS ClosureCompiler Grunt Bower
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December 2013 – March 2015
HOQS
Senior Full-Stack Developer
HOQS is a digital agency based in Kraków, Poland.
- Led and managed web and interactive projects for the company's clients, including landing pages, cultural events' websites, social games integrated with Facebook, custom e-learning platforms, and many others.
- Provided support for websites maintained by the company.
- Built tools for monitoring the activity and health of internal systems.
- Improved developers' efficiency through training them in new technologies and modern programming techniques.
Major clients: Nowe Motywacje, Digart.pl, nazwa.pl, Onet, LexisNexis, evercare.
PHP Moodle LESS Bootstrap JavaScript AngularJS NodeJS
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May 2012 – December 2013
Professional design / CG2
Back-end Developer
CG2 is a digital agency based in Opole, Poland.
- Designed and built a dedicated development platform with a rich content management system focused on stability, optimization, and easy extending.
- Deployed websites for company clients.
PHP Kohana MySQL HTML CSS LESS Bootstrap JavaScript jQuery
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2007-2014
Spoko Brand
Full-Stack Developer
Spoko Brand is a company with experience in creating and managing specialized online stores with global reach.
- Created a scalable e-commerce platform running the company's online shops (Hedonskate, Bladeville, and TwoTip).
- Design an optimized store database with shared stock inventory.
- Developed a full-text search system based on Sphinx.
- Implemented a stock quote SOAP web service and integration with external APIs, e.g. Braintree, UPS, InPost.
- Improved sites SEO under the guidance of Google experts.
- Coded a variety of tools for maintaining, extending, and enhancing security.
PHP MySQL LESS jQuery SOAP
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2004 – December 2017
Freelance
Full-Stack Developer
Major clients:
- Online shops (Be-Mag, Snapbox, Fandango Records),
- Music artists (Miuosh, Lilu, Believe, Decybele Dizajnu),
- Sportsmen (Szczepan Karpiel-Bułecka, Bartek Sibiga, Tomasz Kwiecień),
- Fashion and graphic designers (The Hive, Aaaghr, From Froggy With Love, Admirable, CustomTop).
PHP Kohana Wordpress MySQL HTML CSS LESS Bootstrap JavaScript jQuery PayPal PayU WorldPay LastFm PrestaShop
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July 17th, 1988
Born
Skills
Proficient in
- creating single-page web applications and interactive user interfaces,
- writing optimal and efficient TypeScript code compatible with current ECMAScript standards,
- writing semantic HTML and CSS code, compliant with W3C standards,
- producing clean and readable code using design patterns,
- solving complex problems,
- debugging and profiling code with Chrome DevTools,
- frameworks (Angular), preprocessors (Sass) and other tools (Git, Eslint).
Knowledge of
- building efficient API services,
- publishing and maintaining open source projects,
- prototyping accessible and user-friendly interfaces using WAI-ARIA standards,
- automating tasks using Bash scripts and POSIX commands.
Additional skills
- very good communication and interpersonal skills,
- reliable and focused on providing high-quality product,
- fast learner and always willing to share knowledge,
- can exit vim in at least 5 different ways ;).
Languages
- Polish (native),
- English (fluent),
- Norwegian (basic).
Education
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering
Politechnika Białostocka, 2014
The comparison of the methods of the execution of contact-free interface applying the track of movement in the image from the camera
Implemented algorithms for real-time analysis of images captured by web camera to provide touchless computer interface.
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After Hours
Audiovisual art
Translating sound into image with audio-reactive code and live video mixing.
Music production
Exploring magical world of creating sounds inspired by drum and bass and rap music.
Nature
Exploring the beauty of Norway.
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