Patryk Kabaj

About

I am a former developer looking for contract dev work to get back to coding again. I've spent last 7 years developing a B-Series startup I cofounded (Packhelp), where for the first two years I co-coded it with my CTO, then led the tech team for a year and eventually led the whole product as a CPO. Earlier, I worked as a full-stack dev in London, Paris. I was a skilled, passionate, ultimately a very good developer who was able to solve complex issues with little or no guidance. My tech experience: JS/React/Angular/Backbone, Node.js, PHP, Pearl, Wordpress, 3D on the Web, product instrumentation, web analytics, integrations (Asana, Iterable), Ruby on Rails. Perhaps unusual: I enjoy bug fixing, overcoming difficulties, speed improvements.

Experience

• Chief Product Officer & Co-founder · Packhelp08-01-2015 – 09-01-2022

  Co-founder and product leader of Packhelp, an online marketplace for custom packaging. Ultimately, managed a portfolio of six highly-integrated websites and apps. Scaled product org to a team of 32. Oversaw product management, growth, design, marketing automation and data science teams. Pitched to investors, deployed company-wide tools and processes.

• Full-Stack Developer / Product Designer / Team Lead · Freelance09-01-2015 – 12-01-2019

  During the initial years at Packhelp, I took on side-projects and provided services in areas such as: R&D, UI/UX design, software development and project management. I built a team of freelancers to help me deliver as I progressed in my product role at Packhelp. As a team, we delivered multiple Wordpress sites, coded up Squarespace templates, extended 3D web apps, defended sites against hackers and developed plugins. Individually, I acted as a freelance Product Designer for my previous London-based employer OpenAsset. On the technical side, I loved and excelled at tackling hard-to-fix bugs my clients came to me with. I got to be known for quality, reliability and easy-to-work-with attitude.

• CTO · Les Petites Tables05-01-2015 – 09-01-2015

  My second startup experience. I got invited to become a technical co-founder and help Les Petites Tables get into the NUMA Accelerator programme in Paris 2015. We got in. The idea was to create a listing for delicious, authentic restaurants in France for less than 10 Euro and (somehow) monetise the large traffic coming to the site.

• Full Stack Developer & UX Lead · OpenAsset (Axomic)01-01-2013 – 06-01-2015

  I led transformation from feature-driven development towards design-driven one. After two years, took on an extra role of UX Lead, ran workshops with customers (for example with Fosters & Partners) and designed features and then coded them up. Axomic was where I learned the art of great programming.

• Full-Stack Developer / Co-founder / Media Production Director · Collaborative Arts Network10-01-2009 – 09-01-2012

  My first startup experience. The goal was to build a social network dedicated to young creatives and connect them with agencies to help find jobs and/or projects. I wore many hats there: ranging from software development to leading a team of media producers helping us promote our talent pool through video, short film festivals and artistic events.

Education

• University College London (UCL)MSc, Computer Science
• Goldsmiths, University of LondonBA, Media & Communications

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