Szymon Rząd
Software Engineer at WalletConnect
Gdynia, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolSzymon Rząd is a software engineer with nine years of experience building production-grade mobile apps, microservices, and protocols, currently leading development on the WalletConnect protocol. He designs scalable architectures—authoring a Rust microservice handling over a million monthly interactions and a Kotlin SDK with 1000+ commits—while also driving a notification product that delivers millions of push messages. With a Master’s in Informatics from Gdańsk University of Technology, his background spans Android, cloud, blockchain, and AI-informed software design. Prior roles include boosting a crypto wallet’s downloads and user ratings, and improving warehouse operations through Android apps and Spring microservices that cut order creation time by half. He combines hands-on implementation and team leadership—having led a five-engineer team and written documentation that doubled adoption—to ship secure, user-focused solutions in fast-paced startups. Colleagues value his detail-oriented approach and appetite for bringing cutting-edge technologies into pragmatic, customer-facing products.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informatics, Master's degree, Informatics at Gdańsk University of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Politechnika Gdańska
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Github Skills (29)
crypto10
kotlin10
wallet10
bitcoin10
cross-platform10
cryptocurrency10
ethereum10
android10
blockchain10
walletconnect10
documentation10
terraform9
swift9
chat-sdk9
rust8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
reown-com/keys-server
Jun 2022 - Feb 2024
Microservice to manage identity keys and invite keys for Chat SDK
Contributions:18 releases, 45 reviews, 56 PRs in 1 year 8 months
chat-sdkmicroservicesrustterraformteam-backend
Elyniss/web3j
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Lightweight Java and Android library for integration with Ethereum clients
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
ethereumandroid-libraryandroidjavaclients
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