Curriculum Vitae

I’m Michał Kosmulski, a software engineer working mostly in the JVM + Linux ecosystem.

I want to create software I can be proud of and usually succeed at it. Currently, I work at Allegro, the largest e-commerce site in Poland, where I'm an IT team leader at the PPC advertising department. Prior to that I worked at the finance deprtment at Allegro, on internet and enterprise search engines, including the first Polish news search engine. I take interest in building high-performance applications regardless of whether it means using high-level concepts such as functional and reactive programming or working close to the metal. I also have some experience with Natural Language Processing. Good practices combined with common sense are what I consider the key to building reliable, high quality software.

You can find up-to-date information about my work, a list of technologies, etc. in my LinkedIn profile.

Profiles on external sites

• LinkedIn profile
• StackOverflow profile
• Blog at allegro.tech

Professional experience

Current

• Team Leader at Allegro Group

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Allegro Group
• IT Director at Newspoint
• IT Director (responsible for the core search engine, USE) at NetSprint
• Software developer (working on the internet search engine) at NetSprint
• Freelance Writer at Open Source Technology Group (OSTG)
  • Articles I wrote for OSTG
• Miscellaneous IT jobs at Wie bitte?

Education

• University
  • B.Sc. in Physics, Warsaw University (Międzywydziałowe Indywidualne Studia Matematyczno-Przyrodnicze (MISMaP) — Inter-faculty Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
    • Thesis: Analiza pasm rotacyjnych w jądrach zwierciadlanych w samozgodnym modelu Skyrme'a-Hartree-Focka (Analysis of rotational bands in mirror nuclei in the self-consistent Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model)
    • Publication: Angular momentum projection of cranked Hartree-Fock states: Application to terminating bands in A~44 nuclei, H. Zdunczuk, W. Satula, J. Dobaczewski, M. Kosmulski, Phys. Rev. C 76, 044304 (2007); abstract is also available from Physical Review C
  • M.Sc. in Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology
    • Thesis: Reprezentacja dokumentów tekstowych w modelu przestrzeni wektorowej (Representing text documents in the Vector Space Model)
• High School
  • II LO im. Hetmana Jana Zamoyskiego, Lublin
    • Awarded twice in Ogólnopolska Olimpiada Języka Niemieckiego (National German Language Olympiad)
  • Fichte-Gymnasium, Karlsruhe
    • Awarded in Landeswettbewerb Mathematik (Baden-Württemberg) — (State Competition in Mathematics (Baden-Württemberg))

Other activities and hobbies

• origami
• Collecting minerals, fossils and meteorites, grounding member of Polskie Towarzystwo Meteorytowe (Polish Meteoritical Association)
• Mountain biking
• Former member of Niezależne Zrzeszenie Studentów (Independent Students Union)

Languages

• Mother tongue: Polish
• Advanced: English (1-year stay in the USA), German (2-year stay in Germany, Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom)
• Basic: French