Hey there! 👋
My name is Wacław Jacek and I am a Senior+ Software Engineer with 18 years of professional experience.
🤖 Tech stack
I can and will use:
- JavaScript: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Next.js, hapi.js, React, Redux, Zustand, and Jest
- Other languages: Python, SQL, PHP (Laravel, Symfony, and others), and Java
- Cloud: AWS, Grafana, Prometheus
- CMSes: Astro, WordPress, WooCommerce
- CI/CD, Docker, Git, Tailwind CSS, design patterns, dad jokes, REST API best practices, Slack, GitHub, and all that jazz
🧑💼 Past experience
If you would like to learn more about my career, I invite you to check out my LinkedIn profile. For a brief summary of the most recent past, I spent my working hours:
Engineering shipping and payments at WooCommerce
I spent the past 4.5 years at WooCommerce (Automattic) working on the company's flagship shipping and payments offerings: WooCommerce Shipping and WooPayments, as well as Woo's entire shipping product suite.
Having gained tons of experience working on shipping in ecommerce, I became one of two founding members of a re-established shipping team, working closely with leadership to establish a new product strategy, leading cross-functional initiatives, and managing key partner communications.
Freelancing
I worked closely with clients on projects big and small, spanning from WordPress and WooCommerce tweaks to completely custom web apps.
🧑🔬 Areas of expertise
Throughout my entire career I especially gained experience in software architecture and testing, planning and leading projects, designing REST APIs, ensuring web app security, and briefly dipped my toes in team leadership.
🤩 My favorite things
I love open source, working on groundbreaking projects, building a great user and developer experience, and making work fun.
Some of my past open source contributions include:
- Working on WooCommerce and its shipping and payments plugins
- Contributing to WordPress as a plugin developer and translator
- Working as a webmaster for the GNU project