Curriculum Vitae – Résumé

Karol Bieńkowski

Tel.: +48.661.401.888
www.bienkowski.net
born in 1979, located in Warsaw, Poland

Objective

• Java Architect, Senior Developer, or Technical Lead

Top skills

• Object-oriented programmer and designer in Java using design patterns and TDD

• Developer of multi-tier, scalable Java EE apps for JBoss, WebSphere

• Team worker, and leader, goal-oriented and effective

Career

05.2007 – now (2010): Solutions Architect / Senior Developer / Java EE at Syncron Poland

• Project: Global Inventory Management, the Syncron's major product (Java EE, Hibernate, Spring, SOA, JSF, AJAX, multiple DBs and app servers)
  My role: solutions architect (since 01.2009) for the product - design according to functional and non-functional requirements, implement the GUI and the backend, build and release control, planning and documentation, cooperation with analysts and QA, day-to-day task management, automated testing, customer installation support

01.2005 – 04.2007: Software Engineer / J2EE at GTech Easter Europe

• Project: Internet gaming application for Veikkaus (J2EE, WebSphere/JBoss, legacy connectivity, high performance and availability constraints, intl team of >50 developers and QA's, budget >50M €)
  My role: design and implement business layer frameworks (e.g. logging and exception handling), migrate ex-CORBA modules to J2EE/POJO, lead a team up to 8 developers

10.2003 – 02.2004: Laboratory lecturer at the Computer Science Faculty of University of Warsaw:

• „SGML/XML and up-to-date knowledge management technologies”

09.2002 – 12.2004: Programmer and designer / Java at empolis Poland (part of Arvato, profile: knowledge and content management, workflow, portals)

• Project: Peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing network (JXTA, SWT, RDF, international, EU-sponsored, budged over 3M€), 2003-04
  My role: design from scratch and implement with tests a large module (over 500 classes) tightly coupled to Oracle DB

• Project: Article archive and portal for one of the largest polish newspapers (J2EE), 2004
  My role: implement DB access layer (Oracle), and new GUI and backend functionalities (POJO, EJB, Struts, JSP)

• Project: Content and Knowledge Management System (WebLogic then JBoss, Oracle, over 10 programmers, over 2 years), 2002-03
  My role: implement webapp, design of introducing Struts and i18n, participate in requirements gathering, add functionality, define knowledge model in RDF

• Project: Implementation of the W3C XML standards: XPointer and Xinclude, 2002

Tools and technologies intensively used:

• Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere, Spring, Hibernate, Toplink, JPA, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Selenium, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, CVS, Perforce, JIRA, JSF, AJAX, RichFaces, SOA, CXF, JAXB, BPM, Semantic Web, RDF

Complete list of projects I participated - www.bienkowski.net/work

Education and interests

Graduated summa cum laude from the Polish top-rated faculty of Computer Science at University of Warsaw with M. Sc. degree in computer science, 2003 (with GPA 4.7 out of 5).

Valuable knowledge I gained:

• Computer science fundamentals: computational complexity, distributed systems, concurrency, key algorithms and data structures

• OO and structural design and programming, UML

• Languages: C, C++, Smalltalk, Java; logic and functional programming

• Web application creation: J2EE (JSP, servlets), PHP

• DB structure design and DB handling: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, object DBs

• A list of my student projects: www.bienkowski.net/stud

Now I am extending my knowledge in

• Lightweight software development methodologies (XP, Scrum, TDD)

• Cloud computing (Google AppEngine for Python)

• Business process engines and SOA

Achievements and certificates

• Nationwide finalist of the XLIX Mathematics Olympiad For High School Students, 1998

• Holder of the scholarship of the president of the city of Lublin, 1998

• Sun Certified: Enterprise Architect (SCEA, 2008), Business Component Developer (SCBCD, 2005), Java Programmer (SCJP, 2005)

Miscellaneous

• English (read, write and speak, used in daily work, FCE)

• Hobbies: sports, traveling

“The best way of reading code is to refactor it”

Last updated: 28August 2010

I hereby authorize you to process my personal data included in my job application for the needs of the recruitment process (in accordance with the Polish Personnel Protection Act of 29.08.1997 no 133 position 883).

The full and up-to-date version of this document in different formats can be accessed at www.bienkowski.net/cv.