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Rafał BagrowskiRB

Rafał Bagrowski

Senior Full Stack Engineer

€450/day
Warsaw, PL
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Rafał

I help SaaS and AI teams build, scale, and stabilize production-ready products - from React interfaces and Node.js APIs to AI workflows, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.

I’m a Full-Stack Engineer with 9+ years of experience across SaaS, AI, video automation, e-commerce, financial services, and data products. My core stack includes React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, GCP, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes.


At Zync, I lead engineering across five product areas serving 1,000+ active users and supporting monetization workflows tied to $20k MRR. Recent results include:
• Reduced manual post-production by 2–3 hours per video
• Cut queue-based rendering costs by 90%
• Scaled video rendering to 200 jobs/day, with peaks around 500
• Improved P0 incident recovery time to approximately 30 minutes
• Mentored five engineers and established architecture and code-review standards


I can help you with:
• Full-stack SaaS and MVP development
• System design and architecture
• React/Next.js frontends and Node.js/GraphQL backends
• AI/LLM integrations and video automation
• Real-time collaboration with WebSockets and WebRTC
• Stripe billing, third-party APIs, worker queues, cloud deployment, and production reliability

Previously, I built React commerce products serving 5M+ monthly users and supporting $400M+ in combined annual revenue, as well as software for financial-services and BI teams.


If you need a senior engineer who can own delivery from discovery and architecture through deployment and production support, let’s talk.
  • Polish

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Basic

  • English

    Fluent

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Zync AI
    Lead Full Stack Engineer
    TECH
    April 2022 - Today (4 years and 3 months)
    California City, United States
    Lead full-stack engineering for Zync's cloud-native AI/video SaaS across meetings, collaboration, automated content production, and AI workflows.
    - Led engineering across 5 product areas for a platform serving 1,000+ active users; owned architecture, code review standards, release planning, and mentoring for 5 engineers.
    - Built React/Next.js/Redux, Node.js/GraphQL, TypeScript, and Python systems for collaboration, ContentKit automation, rendering, monetization, publishing, and admin workflows.
    - Shipped ContentKit workflows for transcripts, AI thumbnails, screenplay driven videos, captions, b-roll, audio, webhooks, retries, and render callbacks, reducing manual post-production by 2-3 hours per video.
    - Built cloud GPU/video workflows for avatars, voice/video generation, background removal, alpha matting, batch APIs, and worker queues; queue based rendering cut rendering costs by 90%.
    - Scaled Remotion/FFmpeg rendering across GKE/AKS with Azure Service Bus workers, autoscaling, monitoring, and resource optimization, supporting 200 renders/day and peaks around 500.
    - Shipped Stripe billing, workspace plans, publishing integrations, scheduling workflows, and admin tools supporting 5 products with USD 20k MRR.
    - Improved reliability with logging, analytics, health probes, retries, duplicate render handling, cache invalidation, and deployment automation, improving P0 MTTR to about 30 minutes. Technologies: React, Next.js, Redux, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, Python, Remotion, FFmpeg, OpenCV, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, GKE, ACR, Azure Service Bus, CI/CD, WebSockets, Daily.js, Stripe.
    React.js Node.js Next.js Google cloud LLM
  • Fast White Cat S.A.
    Senior Frontend Engineer
    E-COMMERCE
    June 2021 - May 2022 (11 months)
    Warsaw, Poland
    Built high-performance React storefronts for Magento 2 and PWA Studio e commerce projects serving 5M+ monthly users and supporting USD 400M + in annual combined revenue, with focus on checkout reliability, frontend architecture, reusable components, and performance.
    - Developed storefront features across checkout, shipping, guest forms, payment methods, cart/minicart, homepages, product listings, category pages, and user account pages.
    - Delivered React, TypeScript, GraphQL/Apollo, Node.js, JavaScript, and CSS functionality across Magento 2/PWA Studio storefronts.
    - Contributed reusable components to private libraries used across company projects.
    - Supported frontend performance goals, including homepage Lighthouse scores above 90.
    - Validated Magento 2 Admin Panel behavior against frontend requirements.
    - Participated in application and functionality design based on business and functional requirements.
    - Used Cypress and Jest to support test coverage and delivery confidence. Technologies: React hooks, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript ES6+, CSS, GraphQL Apollo, PWA Studio, Magento 2, Cypress, Jest, Jira, Bitbucket.
    PWA React.js Magento Typescript Node.js
  • GFT Group
    Senior Software Engineer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    October 2019 - May 2021 (1 year and 7 months)
    Warsaw, Poland
    Delivered full-stack and mobile software for financial-services clients, combining React, React Native, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, testing, and cloud-native delivery practices.
    - Built client-facing web and mobile features using React, React Native, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL/Apollo, Prisma, and JavaScript ES6+.
    - Created reusable UI and API patterns to standardize implementation across applications.
    - Improved release confidence by adding Cypress end-to-end tests and Jest/ React Testing Library coverage around critical flows.
    - Supported cloud-native delivery on GCP with Docker and Kubernetes.
    - Partnered with product, QA, and distributed engineering teams to translate banking requirements into maintainable, production-ready software. Technologies: React, React Native, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Apollo, Prisma, JavaScript ES6+, Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.
    React.js React Native GraphQL Node.js Java

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Education

  • Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree
    Udacity
    2018
    Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree
  • Master's degree
    Warsaw School of Economics
    2013
    Master's degree

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