CodiLime’s employee becomes the Developer of the Month in the international OpenContrail project

One of employees in CodiLime, Polish software engineering services company, as a result of his contribution to the development of open source software, was awarded the prestigious Developer of the Month title in the OpenContrail community.

CodiLime, except for numerous projects for its clients, is also engaged in the development of open source software, whose main feature is open code, the possibility to adjust it to one’s needs and cooperation with programmers from all over the world. One of the Project Managers – Bartłomiej Wołowiec, currently works on the OpenContrail project, where he was chosen the Developer of the Month among the international community of computer scientists engaged in the development of the program. This title is a great distinction for people associated with OpenContrail and proves the significant contribution to the improvement and development of the code by the programmer.

OpenContrail is a project whose aim is network virtualization, automation of delivering the network services and making network software independent from the hardware. This software works with other standards and products already existing in the market, and can be used in networks, where the elasticity is crucial, e.g. in data centers offering network services and infrastructure in the form of cloud computing. The task of Bartłomiej Wołowiec is to implement an algorithm that improves the stability of the network.

Bartłomiej Wołowiec, Project Manager at CodiLime, said: ‘Developing the OpenContrail project is a very interesting challenge for me. The fact that I work in the international team of programmers allows me to learn a lot and gain some new experience. I am really happy that my contribution to the development of this software was appreciated and I believe that further cooperation will be as smooth as it has been so far and the project will turn out to be a great success.’

CodiLime is an IT company founded by extremely talented algorithm developers, graduates of Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Warsaw. Among the founders there is the world champion in individual programming as well as the winners of gold medal at the ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) – Battle of The Brains, a global competition organized by the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery and IBM. The majority of engineers employed by CodiLime gained their professional experience in international headquarters of such companies as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, NVIDIA and UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland). CodiLime designs and develops state-of-the-art IT systems within such areas as Fraud & Security Intelligence, Risk Management, Business Analytics & Intelligence, Customer Intelligence, Mobile Payments, E-commerce as well as Web & Mobile Applications. The company also carries out several R&D projects for large international corporate Clients investing in high-tech solutions involving BIG DATA, Security, Cloud Computing, OpenStack, OpenContrail, OpenFlow, Open DayLight and SDN (Software Defined Networking).