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Warsaw, Pl

Developing mission control software for the next generation of Lunar rovers.

Kraków, Pl

• Managed a team of over 30 engineers and scientists.• 1st place out of 102 teams from 15 countries at URC 2024 – the largest student space robotics competition.• 2nd place out of 69 teams from 23 countries at ERC 2024 – Europe's largest space robotics competition.• Established and coordinated partnerships with 15 sponsors and partners.• Raised funding of 90K USD from private sponsors and 4 public grants.• Edited Preliminary Design Review and System Acceptance Report deliverables for 3 competitions.• Led recruitment, onboarding, and team-building efforts for 8 new members.• Speaker and exhibitor at 35 events promoting STEM education.

Kraków, Pl

• Developed ROS packages for the rover to perform competition-specific tasks.• Prepared technical documentation and qualifying reports for Rover Challenge competitions. • Video edited documentation videos and marketing materials.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Developed custom packages to support robotics hardware modules (e.g. motors, encoders, IMU and others) and autonomous navigation ecosystem in ROS 2 Humble, C++, and Python.• Created a prototype of a mobile platform for an autonomous navigation stack.

Meyrin, Genève, Ch

• Gathered requirements and needs of physicists responsible for the maintenance and control of particle accelerators.• Developed a Python library for controlling selected beam parameters in the CERN's largest proton synchrotron, and an interactive web environment utilizing Jupyter Notebook widgets.

Cracow, Pl

• Organized a series of on-site workshops about programming in Python with Robot Operating System for over 30 students.

Southlake, Texas, Us

• Developed features for enterprise applications in Java and Spring.

• Member of Mars rover prototype project. Developed software to control the rover and prepare a basic simulation environment with ROS Noetic, Gazebo, C++, Python, Go.

Katowice, Silesia, Pl

• Developed frontend/backend features for enterprise applications in TypeScript.• Participated in internal JavaScript, TypeScript, Git courses.