Resume

Jack of all trades who delivers

I’ve built and shipped data projects across media, energy, climate and the social sector — in newsrooms, think tanks and NGOs. This is how I went from a student of classical Arabic to a manager of data projects.

Contact

Jarosław Kopeć

resume.ammonia668@passmail.net *

* - This is an alias to my e-mail specifically set up for sharing it here and be able to fend off bots. Do not fret!

Experience

Instrat Foundation

(2024–) Head of Data & Intelligence

  • Data governance, pipelines, visualization & communication of results
  • Managing projects, including:
    • symulator.instrat.pl – millions of scenarios optimized with in-house PyPSA home model for linear optimization
    • energy.instrat.pl – data visualizations in d3.js, consulting on data processing
    • database on industrial emissions in Poland – processing & analysis

(2023–2024) Senior Data Analyst

  • Analyzing data related to energy and climate, writing, publishing and presenting reports, internal consulting on data visualization

University of Warsaw

(2019–2022) Lecturer

  • Teaching courses on programming with Python and data visualization

Agora S.A.

(2017–2022) Data Journalist @ Gazeta Wyborcza

  • Analyzing data on many different subjects and reporting findings in stories published both in print and digital
  • Processing and reporting based on the data on the developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland and other countries, day-to-day, within the rapid news cycle
  • Developing internal tools for journalists, including scrapers, data visualization scripts

The National Library of Poland

(2013–2017) Research Assistant

  • Conducting quantitative research about readership of books and information-communication technologies (citations)
  • Researching the digitization of society using mixed methods, incl. ethnography
  • UX Consulting for Polona.pl

Stack_&_skills

  • AI-assisted programming, basic Linux admin
  • High expertise in data visualization
  • Docker, Podman, Linux, Windows, WSL, Git, basic bash
  • Python, Pandas, Numpy, matplotlib, Seaborn, Jupyter, Flask, others
  • SQL + ORMs
  • JavaScript + d3.js, other visualization libraries
  • Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, MS Excel, LibreOffice, Flourish
  • Public speaking, excellent writing

Education

MIT

University of Warsaw

  • 2023 — PhD @ Faculty of “Artes Liberales”
  • 2014 — MA @ Faculty of “Artes Liberales”
  • 2013 — MA @ Faculty of Polish Studies, Institute of Polish Culture
  • 2011 — BA @ Faculty of Oriental Studies, Arabic and Islamic Studies

Languages

  • Polish – native
  • English – professional working proficiency
  • Arabic – very basic, non-communicative

Hobbies & interests

  • The developments in digital technologies
  • Homelabbing – managing both a modest home server based on Raspberry Pi and a VPS for web-based projects (including this website here)
  • Reading – an even mix of fiction, speculative fiction and non-fiction
  • Tactical video games