Rafał Szczypka – Senior front-end developer and website designer
I have been working with internet projects throughout all their phases for over ten years. Therefore, there is the knowledge coming from education and strong experience, bug fixing and searching for solutions to common problems. At the same time I’m more and more humble in front of the always developing industry and I know I need and want to learn new things every day. The experience helps in choosing the good from among all the other ‘good’ solutions; humility helps in always searching for the new ones.
Education
Master of Science, Computer Science in Use
– Cracow University of Technology, Poland; 2001 – 2006
Experience
Lead front-end developer and website designer
Fluid Rock Limited
September 2006 – Present; Dublin, Ireland
The work consists of big corporate projects for clients such as Failte Ireland (National Tourist Development Authority), Tourism Ireland, Dublin Port, Jameson Whiskey, Higher Education Authority (HEA), S3 Group and is at the same time exciting and challenging by being a practical school of:
- working in a project team
- using Subversion control (SVN) and git
- coding HTML5 + CSS3 (scss)
- making the development easier by using Yeoman with grunt
- using Javascript (jQuery)
- integrating with different APIs (Facebook, LinkedIn, AddThis, Google Maps, Google Analytics)
- discovering Responsive Design
- defining UX + IA
- working with CMSs: Typo3 (php), Kentico (.net), WordPress (php)
E-commerce director
Familiaris Szczypka-Weglowscy Ltd
July 2010 – Present; Dublin, Ireland
Passion developed into an e-commerce business. The first difficult steps as an entrepreneur. Implementation of e-commerce solutions using WordPress and Magento. Managing social networks profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn. Lots of learning and discoveries in the area of SEO, internet marketing and particularly email marketing.
Junior front-end developer and website designer
Araneo sp. z o.o.
2005 – 2006; Krakow, Poland
Junior front-end developer and website designer
Multi Vision
2004 – 2005; Skawina, Poland
Flash and website designer
Stowarzyszenie Wiosna
2004 – 2006; Krakow, Poland