# Magda K.

> Product Engineer @ Fence

Location: Portugal, Portugal
Profile: https://flows.cv/magda

Senior Backend & Full Stack Engineer | Designing distributed systems, data flows, API integrations and resilient architectures | Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, SQL, NoSQL | Driven by meaningful impact and thoughtful technology

## Work Experience
### Product Engineer @ Fence
Jan 2026 – Present | Madrid

### Senior Software Engineer @ Grow Therapy
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States
Helped building an online therapy platform that allows people to access high-quality, insurance-covered therapy and psychiatric care. Worked on search and database optimization features, notifications system and testing.

### Senior Software Engineer @ WeaveGrid
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Used software to decarbonize the electrical grid and enable safer, and cleaner EV adoption. Worked on OEM API integrations and telemetry data pipelines.

### Software Engineer @ Getaround
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
Empowering people to carshare everywhere, i.e. using Python (Flask, GCP) to build backend functionality of the main customer facing marketplace product.

### Software Engineer @ Awair
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
Developed backend (Scala) and frontend (React) of a feature that recommends air purifying devices to users based on their air quality score trends. Part of the Silicon Valley Internship Program.

### Software Engineer @ OhmConnect
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
I used Python (Flask, MySQL) and Javascript (Vue.js, jQuery, HTML, CSS) to create a super cool website that aims at reducing California's carbon footprint by encouraging people to cut down on their electricity consumption during power plants' peak demand times. I was responsible for various API integrations, such as Google Nest, Tesla or WattTime API.

### Engineering Associate @ Morgan Stanley
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Glasgow, United Kingdom
I worked in MS Development Environment Team and created a tool for automating software decommission process.

### Engineering Intern @ Morgan Stanley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Glasgow, United Kingdom
I worked as a summer intern in the Morgan Stanley Development Environment team and was responsible for adding new features to a website which was an internal tool for software developers. I used Java and Javascript.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Explain Everything Inc
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Wroclaw, Lower Silesian District, Poland
In a team of QA engineers we came up with testing strategy for apps developed at MorrisCooke (currently Explain Everything) and I was responsible for testing the apps on iPads and report bugs to software engineers. As a separate task I created a manual for one of the apps using HTML and CSS. I familiarised myself with Xcode and learned about agile software development.


## Education
### BSc Hons Mobile Software Engineering
University of Glasgow
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kowalsska
- Website: https://madebymagda.app/

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Source: https://flows.cv/magda
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/magda/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22