Bartłomiej Kozal
I have over 15 years of experience in software engineering and graphic design. I like climbing, drawing, playing piano, board games, graphic novels, and books.
Software Engineering
I started in C++ then professionally focused on Ruby, Swift, and JavaScript. Through all the years I worked on games, web applications, native, and mobile apps. I have experience working for startups, scaleups, and large companies in technologies like:
Open Source
I developed over 30 open source libraries in various technologies and contributed to projects like Rails and ycmd. My most popular repositories are:
Product Development
Between 2012 and 2016 I was a core team member and then the CEO of a startup. Shelly Cloud was an automated hosting platform that made deploying Ruby applications painless. We hosted over 270 paying applications on 430 virtual servers. I worked in all areas required to build and run a successful product: user experience, front-end and back-end development, server administration, support, marketing, sales, and team management.
Side Projects
I was a solopreneur for over a year and created a few indie products. One of them was promoted by Apple in the AppStore and reached over 130.000 users. Now they are all open-sourced. You can find them here:
Drawing, Graphic Design & Animation
I enjoy spending my free time pencil drawing. I know how to use all popular graphic software including 3D software like Blender. I self-studied character design and animation. I was also working on procedurally generated graphic and physics simulations. I participate in drawing challenges like Inktober. Below you can see some of my work.
Pencil Drawing
Computer Graphics
UI/UX Design
Music
I like playing piano. In 2021 I started attending jazz piano lessons and studying music theory. I know how to use DAW software. I designed sound for my animations. You can listen to some of my work below.
Other
My other hobbies besides coding, drawing, and playing jazz are: climbing, board games, graphic novels, and books.
