Szymon Wasik
Poland
Summary
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RockstarSzymon Wasik is a research-driven software engineering leader and Director of R&D with nearly a decade of industry experience and a deep academic background including a PhD and habilitation work in computer science. Based in Warsaw, he has led engineering teams at Google (Fitbit) and now ScyllaDB, bridging high-scale product development with university-level research and teaching as an associate professor. He combines hands-on systems design and team leadership with a track record of managing research projects and mentoring students, reflecting a blend of practical delivery and scholarly rigor. An entrepreneurially minded technologist who studied entrepreneurial studies in Alberta, he brings curiosity for real-world impact—teaching at a foundation school while directing R&D—showing a rare commitment to both education and high-performance software.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (49)
docker10
benchmark10
nosql10
cassandra10
nearest-neighbors10
scylla10
amazon-dynamodb10
seastar10
aio10
cpp10
database10
async9
server-side9
clustering9
cql9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
swasik/vector-store
Jun 2025 - Jul 2026
The indexing service for ScyllaDB for vector searching functionality
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 76 pushes in 1 year
scylladb/VectorDBBench
Jul 2025 - Apr 2026
Benchmark designed to evaluate the performance and cost-effectiveness of vector databases.
Contributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 months
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