Rafał Towarek

Web developer

Contact

Email

resume@rtowarek.com

About

Front-end developer with 8 years of experience based in Katowice, Poland.

Profiles

LinkedIn

rafaltowarek

Work

ING Hubs Poland

Dec 2022 – Present
Expert front-end developer inghubspoland.com
Katowice, Poland

Highlights
  • Leader of a front-end squad on a brown-field Angular project consisting of 10 apps
  • Vastly improved deployment velocity by adopting Nx and restructuring repository setup
  • Defined testing strategy and introduced Cypress Component Testing
  • Greatly simplified state management and data fetching by reorganizing apps around Tanstack Query
  • Drove the initiative to reach Observability Maturity Model Level 2
  • Winner of multiple internal hackathons

Waste Vision

Sep 2021 – Sep 2022
Senior front-end developer wastevision.com
Hengelo, Netherlands

Highlights
  • Leader of a front-end team on a green-field Angular project
  • Designed architecture of the application
  • Introduced unit tests (Karma + Jasmine) and end-to-end tests (Cypress)
  • Implemented CI/CD solution with Azure Pipelines
  • Organizer of sprint planning, retrospective and backlog refinement meetings
  • Responsible for improving knowledge sharing within the team

Wirelab Creative

Sep 2017 – Aug 2021
Front-end developer wirelab.nl
Enschede, Netherlands

Highlights
  • Designed and built numerous single-page applications using React and Angular
  • Maintainer of several small-scale React Native applications
  • Creator and maintainer of internal producitivity tool which automates common tasks in Google Drive, Jira and HubSpot. Built with NestJS and Angular
  • Author of reusable Webpack configuration used across all Wirelab projects

Volunteer

AEGEE - European Students' Forum

Oct 2015 – May 2016
Project Manager aegee.org

Highlights
  • Coorganizer of a leadership training event for 100+ international participants. Managed a team of 20 people
  • Organized 3-day Public Relations training event for 30+ participants. Managed a team of 10 people

Skills

Web frameworks

  • Angular
  • React

State management

  • Redux
  • Tanstack Query

Build tools

  • ESbuild
  • Webpack

Continuous integration

  • Azure Pipelines
  • GitHub Actions

Testing

  • Cypress
  • Vitest
  • Playwright

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

Languages

Polish

Native speaker

English

Fluent

Dutch

Beginner

Interests

Sport

  • Squash
  • Formula 1

Geographic information systems (GIS)

  • PostGIS
  • QGIS
  • OpenStreetMap