Krystian Kowal

👨🏻‍💻 JavaScript Developer

JavaScript TypeScript ReactJS Redux NodeJS HTML5 CSS3 REST SQL Git Webpack Scrum Linux

I ❤️ JavaScript.
I like creating web applications especially with new technologies. I am an expert in frontend but I also have strong knowledge in backend (JS). My strengths are analytical thinking and problem solving. In free time I like to learn about new technologies and innovations.

🕵🏻‍♂️ Personal data

🥷🏻 Experience

  • Dec 2019 - now | UBS

    Role: IT Software Engineer (Associate Director)
    Responsibilities: Creating web applications using React+Redux; collaborating with business to introduce better applications; improving existing apps
    Technologies: JavaScript TypeScript ReactJS Redux Saga StencilJS Webpack npm NodeJS Git Github Gitlab CSS3 LESS HTML5 D3 (JS library) Scrum
    Projects:

    • Dashboard - brand new, fully responsive homepage for UBS clients located in USA (React)
    • Interests Questionnaire - web app that allows user to set his mindset by completing survey (React)
    • Navigation - new, responsive navigation in online service based on native web components (StencilJS)
    • Milestones - web app that allows user to set and follow his financial goals (React)
    • New Experience - welcome new clients in online service with splash screen and guide them through Dashboard page (React)

  • Sep 2018 - Nov 2019 | Experis

    Role: Frontend Developer (b2b) (Consultant in a Big Swiss Bank)
    Responsibilities: Creating web apps using ReactJS; introduce responsiveness to existing web apps; create and maintain custom React components library
    Technologies: JavaScript ReactJS HTML5 CSS3 SemanticUI Webpack Git npm Scrum
    Projects:

    • DACAT - web app that allows user to transfer his accounts from another banks to this one (React).

  • Oct 2016 - Sep 2018 | Experis

    Role: Open Source Web Developer (b2b) (Consultant in DXC Technology)
    Responsibilities: Maintaining Orders Search Suite (OSS) Web Application for searching and displaying details statuses about orders in HPE; contact with users around the world; analyzing problems and issued tickets; creating new modules; monitoring
    Technologies: TCL JavaScript ReactJS Git Linux Vim

  • Nov 2015 - Sep 2016 | Yourvine

    Role: Frontend Developer (b2b)
    Responsibilities: Developing web application for managing festivals and selling tickets (SPA + REST API in PHP); in spare time making bots for Slack (coffescript)
    Technologies: JavaScript AngularJS ES6 HTML5 CSS3 SASS Foundation Bootstrap npm gulp grunt Git CI TDD Scrum

  • Mar 2011 - Oct 2015 | Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń Europa

    Role: Junior -> Regular -> Senior Analyst Programmer in IT Department
    Responsibilities: analyzing insurance contracts; preparing system for policies from new insurance products; manipulating big data using Oracle PLSQL; creating data importing procedures; making SQL queries pulling out data for reports; developing local web SPA applications; making reports
    Technologies: PLSQL Oracle XML jQuery AJAX JasperReports Groovy AngularJS PHP MySQL Excel VBA

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2010 | BZ WBK

    Role: Trainee in Risk Management Division
    Responsibilities: making SQL queries in MSSQL database; visualizing data in excel using VBA
    Technologies: SQL MSSQL Excel VBA

👨🏻‍🎓 Education

  • Oct 2005 - Oct 2010

    University of Technology in Wrocław
    Mathematics / Financial and Insurance Mathematics

📜 Courses

  • Oct 2021 Frontend Architecture (architekturanafroncie.pl)
  • Jul 2021 Advanced Git (kursgita.pl)
  • May 2015 UX and Usability in Web Applications (ConceptLabs)
  • Nov 2014 Protecting and Attacking Web Applications (Niebezpiecznik.pl)
  • Aug 2013 Scrum and Agile
  • May 2012 Advanced Oracle and PL/SQL (Altkom Akademia)

🚲 Hobbies

  • Creating small useful (for me) web apps
  • Rollerblading
  • Making plastic models and creating dioramas

😴 Disclaimer

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