Michał Bodzianowski

Summary

Hi, I'm Michał Bodzianowski, an award-winning creative developer with a passion for developing innovative and engaging user experiences. I specialize in full-stack web dev with React/TypeScript, as well as UI/UX design and AI/ML integrations.

Experience

1. SpaceX, Software Engineer

   Apr 2024 to now

   • Responsible for unlocking the Starlink Mini retail launch
   • Rebuilt our Order Flow from the ground up in React, improving conversion rate, aesthetic and UX
   • Unblocked launch of service in international markets and lead localization efforts from the technical perspective
   • Optimizing e-commerce growth and online presence; improving analytics and reporting for better insight
   • Building the robust platform needed to support millions of customers and billions in sales
   • Working from first principles on internal tooling that lets business stakeholders run experiments efficiently
   • Mentoring interns and teammates

   Stack: Next.js and React, Angular, C# .NET microservices on Kubernetes and Argo, hosted on GCP

2. CU Boulder, Institute of Cognitive Science, Software Engineer

   Aug 2020 to Apr 2024

   • Built out testbeds and websites in React, TypeScript and Next.js, including the lab's website, powered by Contentful
   • Implemented real-time systems with WebSockets and Python/Flask backends, architecting MVC systems with maintainable code
   • Created the dashboard display for AI/ML data output and won Best Interactive Event at the AI in Education Conference 2022
   • Architected AWS deployments and pipelines and handled DevOps for the AI Institute (iSAT), working toward an efficient MLOps flow
   • Architected and built the web platform for teachers and students behind the CHI 2025 jigsaw agent paper

   Stack: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Python/Flask, WebSockets, AWS, Contentful

3. AmedicaRx, Full Stack Developer (contract)

   Aug 2022 to Feb 2023

   • Worked directly with the CEO and founders to build a React and AWS web application
   • Implemented GitLab CI/CD pipelines and a Jest test suite
   • Built medication search and admin dashboard functionality to specification

   Stack: React, AWS (DynamoDB, S3, Route 53, Lambda), GitLab CI/CD, Jest

4. Windward Studios, Software Development Intern

   Sep 2019 to Feb 2020

   • Worked with web APIs and helped the company expand its offering by implementing new technologies and evolving existing systems

   Stack: OpenAPI, Python, C++, .NET, Azure DevOps

5. Panther Industries, Marketing and Augmented Reality Intern

   Jun to Aug 2018

   • Helped develop a Help and Support application that uses AR technologies

Education

Publications

• Emily Doherty, E. Margaret Perkoff, Sean von Bayern, Rui Zhang, Indrani Dey, Michal Bodzianowski, Sadhana Puntambekar, Leanne Hirshfield. 2025. Piecing Together Teamwork: A Responsible Approach to an LLM-based Educational Jigsaw Agent. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–17. doi:10.1145/3706598.3713349
• Mason, J. P., Werth, A., West, C. G., et al. 2023. Coronal Heating as Determined by the Solar Flare Frequency Distribution Obtained by Aggregating Case Studies. The Astrophysical Journal, 948(2), 71. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/accc89

Selected projects

• JIA Webapp, Lead developer, SHINE Lab. A web app that lets an LLM agent help students with worksheet problems, built for CU Boulder's iSAT institute.
• iSAT Dashboard, Developer, SHINE Lab. A teacher-facing web dashboard that turns AI/ML output into insights on group activity, and won Best Interactive Event at AIED 2022.
• AI Crofty, Solo build. A realtime F1 23 commentator and race engineer that turns game telemetry into speech with OpenAI and TikTok TTS, with a Discord bot interface.
• Project Mountaintop, Game developer, UI/UX and music. A Unity rhythm game about hiking, played with custom Arduino hiking-pole controllers.
• Office Wizards, Game developer. A competitive wizard game played with barcode scanners and printers, built with Unity and Arduino.
• Creatle, Solo developer (Mar 2022). A web-based game engine concept, a build-your-own Wordle spinoff, in TypeScript, Prisma, Next.js and Tailwind CSS. 2nd place overall and Best Games, Music, and Entertainment Hack at HackCU 8.
• GroceryBot, Lead developer (Fall 2021). An autonomous grocery-shopping robot in the Webots simulator, using inverse kinematics, path planning and computer vision, with an online shopping interface. Later used as a template for final projects in the course.