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			Hey, I am Krystian Wojcicki, a Computer Science student at Carleton University.
			I love doing deep-dives in highly technical problems, working with new up and coming 
			technology and arguing about <b>PUT</b> vs <b>POST</b> usage.
			
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			If you want to learn more about me check out my <a href="/resume/ResumeKrystianWojcicki.pdf" target="_blank">resume</a>
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			2020
			<ul>
				<li>Spent some time studying Corona SDK and Godot for mobile game development</li>
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			2019, the year of internships
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					Amazon, <a href="https://www.awsthinkbox.com/">Thinkbox</a>
					<ul>
						Worked on some their artist tools (Krakatoa, Frost), in C++.
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					<ul>
						Created a set of C++ tools around Krakatoa to reduce the artist's cost up to 20%
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					Scotiabank
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							Worked on PoC related to <a href="https://github.com/openfaas/faas">OpenFaaS</a>, in addition (to privately) contributing to OpenFaaS.
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							Migrated an old C++ service to a Java Spring service with an Angular Frontend. Fully tested with Selenium + JUnit.
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					Nokia
					<ul>
						Created a Java based golden file testbed for the teams code generator.
					</ul>
					<ul>
						Created a regression framework utilizing Selenium/Javascript to fully automate the testing of the frontend.
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					<ul>
						Fixed bugs along the way and added various features to their React based frontend + Java backend
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			2018
			<ul>
				Finished up internship at Rockport and returned to school
			</ul>
		</li>
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			2017
			<ul>
				<li>Spent over a year interning at <a href="https://rockportnetworks.com/">Rockport Networks</a>, was nominated co-op of the year
				<ul>
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						Worked on a Golang Microservices ranging from simple services querying Elasticsearch/Postgres to services implementing complex business logic
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						Responsible for the authentication service utilizing LDAP + JWT
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						Assisted with the transition to Kubernetes
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					<li>
						Fixed several interesting bugs related to our Elasticsearch usage, inspired me to begin my blog with this <a href="/blog/ES-PAGINATION">first post</a>
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				</ul>
				</li>
				<li>
					Participated and won the <a href="https://carleton.ca/scs/cu-events/codeguru/">Junior Carleton Codeguru Contest</a>,
					went and competed with the Carleton team at the ICPC North Eastern Qualifiers.
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				<li>Participated in the first ever CUHacking. Developed an app called Pay Up, utilized Google Cloud OCR to assist in the sharing of bills</li>
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		2016
		<ul>
			<li>
				Spent several months working part time at Authentiky.
				<ul>
					<li>Built several PoC around XMPP servers and client side libraries</li>
					<li>Deployed PoC's to Amazon EC2</li>
				</ul>
			</li>
			<li>
				4 month internship at <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sidense">Sidense</a> (Now Synopsys)
				<ul>
					<li>Developed software to assist the company in receiving its ISO 9001 Certification</li>
					<li>Initial exposure to MVC, Postgres and Business Process Management Tools</li>
				</ul>
			</li>
		</ul>
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			2015
			<ul>
				<li>Started Attending <a href="https://carleton.ca/">Carleton University</a> for Computer Science</li>
			</ul>
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	</ul>
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