Arek Panek

Senior Software Engineer @ Buffer, Ex-Meta | Writing about career in software engineering, remote work, entrepreneurship and freelancing successfully

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

About

Software Engineer at Buffer, Ex-Facebook and entrepreneur. Focused on the high quality of code, big-scale systems, architecture, interlacing it with business experience. Language-agnostic, choosing the right tools for the job.

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at Buffer
    Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Product Software Engineer, leader in Channels & Platform team focused on 3rd party integrations. Creating vision for Buffer's publishing reliability and the most critical business systems that are at the heart of a company. Mentor for many Bufferoos, master bug squasher and the lead firefighter.

  • Software Engineer at Facebook
    Nov 2018 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Member of the DataOps (Data Operations) team - we were responsible for automating data engineering operations at Meta scale - ensuring data engineers can do their work without worrying about data pipelines failures by automating all of the operations. Working on tens of thousands of pipelines, automated failure remediation, operations center.

  • Software Engineer & Owner at Apollin
    Jan 2016 - Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos

    Owner & Engineer focused on small to medium size projects. That's my freelancing time when I was doing lots of projects in PHP and became WordPress expert on Codeable (premium WordPress platform) with excellent reviews.

  • Java Software Engineer at Lufthansa Systems Poland
    Apr 2018 - Oct 2018 · 7 mos

    Working on the enterprise logistics app in Java EE. Member of the Base Framework team, working on the foundational custom framework powering all other teams for their product work.

  • Software Engineer at Zweeler Ltd
    May 2016 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs