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Problem solver / Golang developer

I don't believe that there are unsolvable tasks - sometimes they require more time.

  • Degree: Bachelor / Taon
  • Email: sokolwojtek1@gmail.com
  • Freelance: Available

Used to do some Math.
Current : IT and farming.

Interests

Farming

Coding challenges

Windsurfing

Chess

Resume

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Summary

Wojciech Sokołowski

Favourite languages: Golang, C, Prolog, Python (in descending order). Daily using VS Code + Windows (WSL2), previously Ubuntu user (14.04-20.04). Love to have consistency across stacks and up-to-date systems. Enjoy working on both backend and frontend. Interested in distributed systems and performance optimization. Passionate about farming and modern agriculture technologies.

Education

Agricultural qualifications

2019 - 2020

Centrum Kształcenia Rolniczego w Mokrzeszowie

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

2014 - 2018

Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Thesis topic: Position Based Messenger
Frontend: Java - Android mobile app, Backend: NodeJS, Express, MongoDB

Professional Experience

epole.farm

Sep. 2024 - Present

Zębowice, Poland

Technologies: Go, React

  • Creating web app for farm management from scratch as a free to use platform

Tools: Docker

Databases: PostgresDB

Cloud: fly.io

Family farming

Jun. 2010 - Present

Zębowice, Poland

Technologies: integrated production

  • Staring Integrated Production in crops
  • Using modern technologies in farming
  • Operating agricultural machinery

Tools: JD tractors :D

rift

Mar. 2023 - Sep. 2024

Remote

Technologies: Go, React

  • Providing platform core - scheduling algorithm
  • Working as full-stack: frontend, backend and ops

Technologies: Go, React

  • Providing limits-friendly integrations with Hubspot/Salesforce/Zapier
  • Provide app deployment in GKE cluster
  • Setup Caddy as custom loadbalancer with automatic SSL

Tools: DataDog, Kubernetes, GKE, Terraform

Databases: PostgresDB, Redis

Cloud: GCP

Smallpdf

Feb. 2022 - Mar. 2023

Remote

Technologies: Go

  • Introducing Golang best practices
  • Providing eventsourcing based service
  • Introducing DataDog tracing and service monitoring

Tools: DataDog, Kubernetes, AWS S3, Terraform

Databases: PostgresDB, Redis

Cloud: AWS

IQVIA

Jun. 2021 - Jul. 2021

Remote

Technologies: Go

  • Fixing golang repositories
  • Adding coding standards with golangci-lint in gitlab pipelines
  • Working on elasticsearch based service
  • Doing security upgrades
  • Introducing application monitoring

Tools: DataDog

Databases: Elasticsearch

Nomtek

Oct. 2019 - Jun. 2021

Remote/Wrocław, Poland

Technologies: Go, Java, Python, Bash, Chef, Terraform

  • Develop Golang: REST APIs, data processors, job scripts, mobile push service
  • Develop Java: data importer, REST APIs
  • Develop Python: data logs analyzer/processor based on Datadog API
  • Using AWS services: Lambda, EC2 boxes, Fargate, Batch, SNS, SQS, S3
  • Integrating login with Apple in Golang service
  • Maintain Scylla cluster
  • Improve monitoring (tracing, logging, metrics, alerts)
  • Maintain stack with Chef and infrastructure with Terraform
  • Improve database indexes and queries with performance upgrades of 4x
  • Provide on-call service
  • Work in multi-timezone/multicultural environment

Tools: DataDog

Databases: Scylla, Aurora/MySQL, DynamoDB

Cloud: AWS

Opera Software AS

Jun. 2018 - Oct. 2019

Remote/Wrocław, Poland

Technologies: Go, Python

  • Develop Golang: security and performance patches to VPN, caching library
  • Develop Python: deployment tools
  • Investigating security/performance/networking incidents
  • Doing system and cluster upgrades with service 0-downtime
  • Data analyzing and improving Linux system/network performance
  • Maintain Docker swarm cluster

Tools: Docker, Ansible, Docker Swarm

Technologies: Bash

  • Bootstrap Prometheus based alert system for company services
  • Providing CI/CD gitlab integration for deployment in multiple environments
  • Integrating monitoring with company services
  • Tutoring other employees on alert creations

Tools: Docker, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager

Intel Corporation

Jul. 2017 - Sep. 2017

Gdańsk, Poland

Technologies: Go

  • Develop Golang: dmidecode plugin based on dmidecode tool

Technologies: Python

  • Develop Python: Github repos parser and data processor
  • Leading a 3-person project

Tools: Docker

Technologies: Python, Go, Bash

  • Develop Golang: integration and unit tests, patching bugs
  • Testing plugins on various Linux distributions

Tools: Docker

Projects

My projects

GoRetro

Simple agile sprint retrospective. Built to be used with oauth proxy.

GoPress

Lightweight WordPress alternative. Supports markdown files as input and HTML templates. Created for personal usage to generate this website.

AI MMA

Service with ML predictions for MMA fights. Co-created with Data Scientists

SmallPAF (Planning Async Format)

Tool for async ticket estimations

Hearing app

Simple tool that helps verify frequency range of hearing

Chess.com updater

Simple service with users live stats for OBS usage

Wagapp

Web app for car weight. Simple CRUD, integrated with przelewy24.pl and Auth0

Temperature monitoring system

Wireless temperature monitoring with Raspberry Pi and ESP8266+BME280. Prometheus with Pushgateway as main services

Simple imperative language compilers

University project of compiler that generates machine code. First created was 4th in terms of performance on the yearbook. Wrote already 4 of them based on different specifications

Bitlyke

Bit.ly like URL shortener.

SlackUp

Slack report generator. Generates daily reports with random work and progress.

Discord bot

Python bot for spamming random google search images when using keywords.

JH

JQ like CLI tool for HTML except JSON. Crafted for personal usage.

Contact

Contact Me

My Address

Zębowice, Poland

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Email Me

sokolwojtek1@gmail.com

Call Me

+48 725 205 367