Paweł Basiak
Frontend Engineer · React & TypeScript
Summary
Frontend engineer with 9+ years in SaaS product teams, working mainly with React and TypeScript. My experience includes football analysis, visual email editors, and marketing applications. I like working on interfaces with video and data visualization.
How I work
- product
- helping decide what to build and working through the details from idea to release
- team
- mentoring junior developers, conducting technical interviews, and helping teammates
- process
- planning and breaking down work in Scrum and Kanban teams
- craft
- design systems, coding standards, Storybook, code review
Experience
Kognia Sports Intelligence
May 2022 — present
Frontend Developer · full-time · Barcelona, Spain
Real-time football performance and analysis platform (SaaS) used by professional teams and their staff.
- Develop features in a React and TypeScript application, from initial design through release.
- Help make architectural and product decisions, and break upcoming work into tasks.
- Work on team processes, coding standards, and shared design-system components in a monorepo.
- Conduct technical interviews for engineering candidates.
React · TypeScript · Material UI · Jotai · Convex · Storybook · monorepo · Scrum / Kanban
Acoustic
Dec 2019 — Apr 2022
Frontend Developer · full-time · Gdańsk, Poland
Enterprise marketing platform. Worked in a Scrum team with backend developers, QA, and product staff.
- Helped build a visual email editor for creating and targeting emails without writing code.
- Delivered three products from scratch.
- Built and tested Handlebars email templates for the supported email clients.
- Mentored junior developers in their day-to-day work.
Bug Bounty winner — official acoustic.com release.
React · JavaScript · Handlebars · HTML email · design system
GetResponse
Nov 2016 — Aug 2019
Frontend Developer · full-time · Gdańsk, Poland
Marketing automation platform (SaaS).
- Maintained and developed the billing and marketing areas of the product.
- Contributed to PCI DSS compliance work around payments.
- Implemented designs into SPA features across several projects and technologies.
React · JavaScript · Twig · XSLT · design system · Scrum
WEB SOFT
Nov 2014 — Jul 2015
Frontend Developer · full-time · Gdynia, Poland
40+ websites and shops delivered from design to launch — custom eCommerce and CMS theming, client training, direct client contact.
HTML/CSS · SASS · JavaScript · jQuery · WordPress · Joomla
Freelance
Oct 2012 — Oct 2016
Frontend Developer · part-time · Gdańsk, Poland
Designs and websites for clients on WordPress and Drupal; design work in Photoshop and Affinity Designer, direct client contact.
WordPress · Drupal · HTML/CSS · Photoshop · Affinity Designer
Skills
- core
- React · TypeScript · JavaScript · HTML / CSS
- ui
- Material UI · Jotai · design systems · Storybook · Tailwind CSS
- also
- Astro · Convex · Video.js · Handlebars · data visualization · WordPress
- delivery
- Docker · CI/CD
- ai
- AI-assisted development with Claude and Codex
- practices
- Scrum / Kanban · code review · coding standards · monorepos · mentoring
- testing
- Vitest · Playwright
Selected projects
- AoE4 Foundry— tools and simulations for understanding Age of Empires IV.
- devpebe.com— my website and blog, built with Astro and Tailwind CSS.
- Portfolio— earlier website and application work, apps, and product contributions.
Education & languages
- MSc, Project Management — University of Business and Administration in Gdynia2016 — 2018
- BSc, Computer Science — University of Gdańsk2012 — 2016
Polish (native) · English (B2 — daily working language)