Former IT lawyer gone IT, looking for a job as a full-stack developer.

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After over three years of working as a lawyer and academic assistant in the field of intellectual property law and new technologies, I've finally decided to "switch sides" and enter the programming world as a software developer. I'm passionate about coding and it's practical implementations - from solving complicated logical problems to building fun games and pleasing graphical designs.

Check out my Portfolio to learn more about my various projects and the Gists where I explain particularly difficult or interessting issues.

Project	Repo	Description	Technologies Used	Testing Technologies	Deployed (click)
Emu		A transpailer for a new programming language called EMU, built on top of JavaScript. [9 days group project]	JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS	Jasmine, Karma	in progress
BomberCat		A front-end JS BomberCat game. [5 days group project]	JavaScript, CreateJS library, jQuery, HTML, CSS	Jasmine
Photo-fridge		A Rails instagram clone for food. [Weekend solo project]	Ruby, Rails, Paperclip, Devise, Postgres, HTML, CSS	RSpec	+ AWS
News-Collector		A front-end JS App - get headlines from Guardian's API and summaries from Aylien API. [Weekend solo project]	JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, CSS	Jasmine
Bowling Calculator		A full-stack JS app to count Bowling score [2 weekends solo project]	JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS	Jasmine

I pay a lot of attention to UI/UX, my projects look and feel pleasing. I'm fluent in CSS and HTML, working well with JavaScript and its libraries. Check out my favourite designs: News Summaries App in JS, Bombercat Game in JS & CreateJS, and Architecture Portfolio in pure CSS & HTML (done before Makers Academy).

I feel comfortable in the back-end, solving logical problems gives me lots of fun and satisfaction. I have experience in Rails - see my Instagram Clone and Dinosaur app (done before Makers Academy), pure Ruby and SQL - see my Twitter clone - and worked a bit with NodeJS: AirBnB clone.

I use TDD - most of my projects have test coverage of over 95%. I've worked with RSpec, Capybara, Jasmine, Mocha and Zombie. I've also worked on building a simple testing framework at Makers Academy.

Working as a IP/IT lawyer vastly improved my ability to quickly process huge amounts of detail. I've learned to make sure that all the facts relevant to the client were considered and properly elaborated upon. It helps me a lot with programming as I'm well aware that each sentence should be given a thought as even a smallest slip may have adverse consequences.

I'm an experienced researcher with patience to find answers to all relevant questions. I used to work on a government-funded grant and carry out research tasks at UC Berkeley and Max Planck Institute.

Some of my previous offices' clients used to work in Agile what required from me - as a person drafting their software development and maintenance contracts - a deep understanding of this methodology. I believe that my knowledge and experience in this field will help me smoothly enter this programming workflow.

I'm a very sociable person, truly enjoying teamwork, always willing to discuss, collaborate and improve. I consider myself empathic, which helps me successfully work in a team environment.

Jagiellonian University, Poland 09/2014 – 02/2018 Head of research project, assistant, lecturer
Head of research project concerning fair use in US and EU copyright law. Outstanding lecturer on intellectual property law, copyright and civil law (92% fully satisfied students, 150 students voted). Author of numerous publications on data protection and copyright law in Polish and English. Speaker at international conferences.

Kochański Zięba & Partners Business Law Firm, Poland 03/2017 – 10/2017 Lawyer, Associate, New Technologies Practice
Pursuing compliance audits in data protection; drafting data processing agreements and security policies; advising international clients on business strategies connected to methods of data processing.
Negotiating and drafting license and technology transfer agreements; pursuing compliance audits in copyright, trademarks, databases and unfair competition.

Traple Konarski Podrecki Law Firm, Poland 03/2015 – 07/2015, 03/2014 – 05/2014
Trainee, Lawyer, New Technologies Practice
Member of Technology, Media and Telecommunication Practice, focused on copyright and data protection, responsible for carrying out compliance audits, drafting agreements and preparing legal opinions.

Polish Ministry of Digitalization, Poland 09/2014 – 10/2014
Trainee, Data Protection Department
Trainee in the data protection department, assisting in research on GDPR.

• Postgraduate studies on English and European Union law
• Graduated with 2.1 degree

• PhD studies in law

• MA studies in law
• Graduated with first degree
• Beneficiary of Ministry of Science scholarship

• New technologies, coding
• Basketball
• Hiking
• Arts