About Rafał
Polish
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Spanish
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English
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Experience
- Zync AILead Full Stack EngineerTECHApril 2022 - Today (4 years and 3 months)California City, United StatesLead 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.
- Fast White Cat S.A.Senior Frontend EngineerE-COMMERCEJune 2021 - May 2022 (11 months)Warsaw, PolandBuilt 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.
- GFT GroupSenior Software EngineerBANKING AND INSURANCEOctober 2019 - May 2021 (1 year and 7 months)Warsaw, PolandDelivered 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.
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Education
- Front-End Web Developer NanodegreeUdacity2018Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree
- Master's degreeWarsaw School of Economics2013Master's degree