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title: "Optimizely MVP Blog: Episerver, Hangfire, .NET — Stanisław Szołkowski"
description: "Optimizely (Episerver) CMS and Commerce, Hangfire, scheduled jobs, SQL Server performance, and .NET tips from Optimizely MVP Stanisław Szołkowski."
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        <h1>Stanisław Szołkowski — Optimizely MVP &amp; .NET engineer</h1>
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            I write about <strong>Optimizely (Episerver) CMS / Commerce</strong>, <strong>Hangfire</strong>, scheduled jobs, SQL Server performance, and developer setups for .NET teams &mdash; ten-plus years of enterprise CMS work, quietly made faster.
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            New here? Start with <a href="{% post_url 2026-02-18-memory-efficient-catalog-traversal-in-optimizely-commerce-part-1-building-the-service %}">Memory-Efficient Catalog Traversal (Part 1)</a>, or browse by topic:
            <a href="{{ '/tags/optimizely' | relative_url }}">Optimizely</a>,
            <a href="{{ '/tags/hangfire' | relative_url }}">Hangfire</a>,
            <a href="{{ '/tags/scheduled-jobs' | relative_url }}">scheduled jobs</a>,
            <a href="{{ '/tags/performance' | relative_url }}">performance</a>,
            <a href="{{ '/tags/sql-server' | relative_url }}">SQL Server</a>.
            More <a href="{{ '/about/' | relative_url }}">about me</a>.
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