I'm Paulina, a Senior Frontend Engineer and accessibility specialist based in Warsaw. For the past 8 years, I've built interfaces used by millions of people daily, with a focus on making the web accessible to everyone.
In 2020, I started working on Instapage- opens in new tab, an enterprise Angular application in the marketing tech field, as one of the two frontend engineers. Since 2022, I work as a software engineer at GitLab- opens in new tab, where I contribute to the Source Code Management group and lead the Product Accessibility Working group.
My work spans the full development lifecycle - from early ideation and design collaboration to implementation, testing, and measuring impact in production. I specialize in Vue.js, digital accessibility, and working with complex legacy codebases. I'm passionate about well-written and well-organised code, inclusive design, and ensuring that every feature I build works seamlessly with assistive technologies.
I'm expanding my practice to examine the social implications of AI systems and digital products.
As someone who's implemented features at scale, I've become increasingly interested in the language used to market and explain AI - how these linguistic choices shape public perception, encode power dynamics, and obscure technical realities. As someone who could build these systems, I'm choosing to critically analyze them instead.
I'm particularly focused on AI discourse: the anthropomorphization in chatbot interfaces, the promises made by AI companion marketing, and how narratives about AI "taking over" jobs and the world can overshadow present-day social issues - like impacts on mental health, labor practices, and community connection - that we could actually address and mitigate now.
I'm currently pursuing coursework in sociolinguistics and sociology at the University of Warsaw, preparing for IAAP certification, and conducting independent research on digital discourse that I'll be publishing on this site.
Before tech, I studied English philology with a focus on sociolinguistics and taught ESL. I've always been interested in how language shapes power and perception - now I'm applying that lens to the systems I know best.
I believe engineers need critical literacy about the social weight of their technical decisions. The interfaces we build aren't neutral. They're linguistic and social systems that shape how millions of people understand themselves and their world.