Adam Sokolnicki
Backend Team Leader at Gabi, a part of Experian
Poland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAdam Sokolnicki is a backend team leader with 15 years of experience delivering scalable web applications, currently guiding the backend at Gabi (Experian) in Poland since 2023. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, building and maintaining monolith Rails apps, internal APIs for frontend services, and integrating with third-party platforms like Twilio, Aircall, Intercom, and Iterable, with ElasticSearch-powered indexing for large user bases. Earlier in his career he wore multiple hats at Kantox, including CI/CD setup and data analytics work, demonstrating a holistic approach to product development. An active open-source contributor, he has enriched Emacs tooling and Ruby workflows through notable work on bbatsov/projectile and syl20bnr/spacemacs, adding Elixir support and refined Helm integration. He holds master's degrees in Information Technology and Computer Science from Polish universities, and has been coding web applications since 2010, translating complex requirements into robust, maintainable systems. Based in Poland, he combines hands-on engineering with leadership, mentoring teams to ship reliable backend services that power large user bases.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Lodz University of TechnologyMaster, Computer, Master, Computer at Politechnika Łódzka
Polish, eng, spa
Github Skills (17)
configuration-management10
configurationmanagement10
rails10
emacs-lisp10
ruby10
emacs10
helm10
configuration-file10
configurations10
ruby-on-rails10
project-management9
rspec9
projectile9
bundler9
vim9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bbatsov/projectile
Oct 2012 - Jun 2016
Project Interaction Library for Emacs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of `helm-projectile.el` within the Emacs project. They implemented changes related to file and buffer selection within Helm, a tool for Emacs, by introducing features like using candidates-in-buffer for improved performance. The user also updated the codebase to align with the new Helm syntax and improved the user experience by incorporating the project name in the Helm prompt. Furthermore, the user added support for Elixir project types, expanding the project's capabilities.
interactionspacemacsemacsemacs-lspproject-management
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 38 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Ruby layer within the Spacemacs configuration, enhancing the Ruby development experience. They added keybindings and packages related to testing (rspec), package management (bundler, rake), and Ruby version management (chruby). Furthermore, the user refactored existing configurations to improve Rails integration. The user's work streamlined development workflows related to a Ruby on Rails project.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
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