Cyprian Kowalczyk

Working on numerous IT projects as independent consultant, project manager, team lead, IT solutions architect and developer, for small business as well as large organizations, starting from simple websites to complex Content Management Systems, CRMs and business critical applications.

EmployeeReferrals (previously JobLark) is a social network employee referrals platform. Ruby 1.9, Rails 3, Apache Solr / Sunspot expert, Integration with external services (Indeed, Taleo), TDD & BDD (Rspec, Capybara), Backbone.js, Librato Metric / FnordMetric, Sidekiq, Turbolinks

Wimdu.com is an online platform with a wide range of private accommodation. Established in March 2011, > 15 languages, > 100 countries, > 350 employees, > 150k properties, > 100k registered users, > $90,000,000 financing. Ruby 1.9, Rails 3, Backbone, Coffeescript

Working on various personal startup projects such as: Events database (unreleased) - scrapping/crawling, NLP, full-text search (Apache Lucene/Sclr, Sphinx, IndexTank), content categorization and tagging, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, geolocation. Platforma Social Lending (www.platformasl.pl) - a website for Investors interested in alternative investment opportunities. Technical Lead for the website and Adobe AIR desktop application for investment management (www.slmonitor.pl).

Architecting technical specifications of the Cleeng Flexible Digital Content Monetization Solution. Developing concept and prototypes of the solution. Managing the development of the Zend Framework based Cleeng Platform, along with plugin development for popular and custom Content Management Systems, with distributed teams and Cloud Infrastructure. Technical aspects of third-party cooperation and integration - mostly with online publishing houses and content publishing platforms, like Brightcove

Rich Internet Applications and Front-End developer, part of the e-Platform team (30+ members) for Philips Consumer Website: 79 sites, 32 languages, 60k+ pages, 50k+ products, 800M+ visitors / year. Architect and lead developer of Rich Internet Applications (Adobe Flex) and ATG / J2EE components. Leading on-site and distributed teams with agile / iterative and test driven development.

Supporting financial decisions with a real-time adaptive trading system based on the Genetic Programming paradigm implemented in Java. Master’s Degree, June 2006.