Stanisław Wilczyński

Wrocław, Poland, sjwilczynski@gmail.com
Full-stack developer, passionate about tools that make engineers' lives easier, code quality, bringing clarity and creating delightful and accessible products.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer II

Software Engineer

Microsoft

React developer delivering high-value experiences across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, used by millions of users daily. Responsible for:

  • technically leading feature crews and acting as a link between business side and multiple engineering teams
  • designing and implementing products (e.g. People App) with strong focus on accessibility and maintainability
  • Building and enhancing testing and dependency management tooling (open source and internal) across large monorepositories, benefiting all developers
  • Onboarding new team members, conducting knowledge-sharing sessions, and mentoring multiple developers
March 2023 - Present
March 2021 - Feb 2023
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
Oslo, Norway

Software Engineer

Junior Software Engineer

Siemens Digital Logistics

Working as Java developer on maintaining and improving one of the top European logistics SaaS platforms. Projects I took part in included:

  • Implementation of refined and redesigned UI for application main components
  • Exhaustive improvement and refactoring of aliasing mechanism for tailored user experience
  • Self-directed work improvements:
    • unification and enhancement of local deployment tools
    • integration of code review platform with our workflow
    • introduction and application of User Story Mapping and Pair Programming in the team
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018, Jul - Sep 2016
Wrocław, Poland

Tutor

University of Wrocław

Helping other students prepare for the exams

Jan - Jun 2015
Wrocław, Poland

Education

University of Wrocław

Computer science (Master's degree)

Final grade: 5.0/5.0

Thesis: Microarray data analysis in prediction of breast cancer metastasis. Here you can find code and the thesis itself.

Oct 2017 - Sep 2019

University of Wrocław

Joint Studies in Computer Science and Mathematics (Bachelor's degree)

Final grade: 5.0/5.0

Thesis: Reduction of dimensionality by sparse subspace clustering

On my github you can find a list of all courses I took during my studies.

Oct 2014 - Sep 2017

Projects & apps

  • Core maintainer of Microsoft's Nova Facade repository and creator of Nova React Test Utils, a dedicated testing framework for verifying Nova components via Storybook. Originally designed for Nova’s architecture, it has since evolved into a general-purpose solution and is now the most feature-rich open-source tool for integrating Relay-based components into Storybook
  • Excel Add-in that simplifies adding expenses in one of the popular budget templates
  • This page (link to repository) which is a highly optimized static page using Astro
  • Activity tracker PWA that I use to record my sport related activity daily
  • AI for the Threes game using reinforcement learning and PyTorch
  • Co-author of R package Varclust
  • Fingerprint recognition system in Python
  • Analysis of medical data on kidney condition after transplant
  • Dependency injection container in Java
More code can be found on my github

Research

Speaker

11th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2018)

One of the biggest statistical conferences in Europe. I gave a talk on Multiple latent components clustering.

Pisa
Dec 2018

Research assistant

MIR New developments and applications in Big Data

Continued working on Multiple Latent Components Clustering (MLCC). The collaboration with University of Angers aimed at extending the method to work with data from zero inflated negative binomial distribution and proving mathematical properties of MLCC and PEnalized SEmi-integrated Likelihood (PESEL) method. Furthermore, we use MLCC to extract significant features/information from huge breast cancer data set (1200 observations, 60000 variables).

University of Wrocław
University of Angers
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019

Speaker

Joint Conference on Biometrics & Biopharmaceutical Statistics

As one of just 8 people from across Europe, I was selected to present results of my research on Young Statisticians Session. I gave a talk on Reduction of dimensionality by sparse subspace clustering.

Vienna
Aug 2017

Research assistant

Clustering in low-dimensional subspaces

In this project I started working on Multiple Latent Components Clustering (MLCC). I was responsible for formalizing its mathematical basis, maintaining and extending R package Varclust that implements the method. Moreover, I performed throughout simulation study to justify that MLCC is competitive with state-of-the-art variable clustering methods.

University of Wrocław
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017

Skills

  • Visual regression testing/unit testing
  • Design patterns
  • Code reviewing
  • Analytical thinking
  • Algorithms & data structures
Certifications
  • Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer
  • Personal Trainer (EQF level 4) certified by Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs)
Programming Languages, tools & frameworks
  • React
  • Storybook
  • VSCode
  • Typescript
  • GraphQL
  • Git
  • HTML
  • Python + numpy
  • JupyterLab
  • CSS
  • Java/C#
  • IntelliJ IDEA

Achievements

  • Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education scholarship for outstanding achievements (2017)
  • Scholarship for the best students in University of Wrocław (awarded to 7,5% best students) (five times in a row: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
  • International Linguistics Olympiad, Silver Medal (Beijing 2014)
  • Polish National Mathematical Olympiad, Finalist (twice: 2013,2014)
  • Polish National Mathematical Linguistics Olympiad, Laureate (twice 2013,2014)
  • Champion of Lower Silesia in 400m run (Bogatynia 2013)

Interests

Apart from my work, I enjoy doing and watching various sports, especially basketball, athletics and swimming. Among basketball leagues I consider NBA to be most fascinating and my two favorite players are Russel Westbrook and Kevin Durant . As a former sprinter I am still amazed by Wayde van Niekerk’s world record. I love learning about history and society, here are some of my favorites books, channels and podcasts:

As for my other interests, I am keen on travelling (most beautiful city - Porto, Portugal, most astonishing view - Tatev, Armenia, best beach - Tangalle, Sri Lanka). In my free time I like visiting escape rooms and reading books . However, my most beloved activity is going to rock concerts.

I am also an avid fan of the MCU and a follower of Factfulness idea.