- Role in the project
- Co-founder and programming teacher
- Based in
- Kalisz, Poland
- Project period
- 2016 — 2017
Software engineer who co-initiated Hacking Heroes and led its Polish programme in Kalisz.
Contribution to Hacking Heroes
Dominik co-initiated Hacking Heroes with João Matos and was one of the project's principal leaders. Together, they created its central concept and educational model: a cross-border programme in which young people would learn programming by experimenting, solving problems and building together. They defined what participants would learn, how the groups in Poland and Portugal would collaborate, and how the project would progress towards a shared international hackathon.
Dominik drove the programme in Kalisz, taught the Polish participant group, co-created the curriculum, developed the online learning environment, and co-designed and led the hackathon in Porto.
During Hacking Heroes
Dominik Kościelak is a software engineer specialising in web technologies. He began his software career in London in 2007 and joined IDG UK (now Foundry) in 2010. At the time of Hacking Heroes, he was living in Kalisz and working remotely for the company. Largely self-taught as a software engineer, he developed his technical knowledge through professional practice, books, conferences and workshops. His background before technology was in a very different field: he studied ethnology and cultural anthropology and worked on theatre, ethnomusicological and documentary film projects, including fieldwork in Georgia, Bulgaria and the Western Himalayas.
Today
For current work, projects and ways to connect with Dominik, use his LinkedIn profile.