Adam Gwozdowski
Technical Lead at Smart Pension
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Gwozdowski is a Technical Lead based in Krakow with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating Ruby and Python systems, focused on performance, code quality and resilient deployments. He has progressed from senior developer roles to leading self-organized teams at Smart Pension and Strike Social, where he drove architecture, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure on AWS. A long-time contributor to the Karafka Kafka processing framework, he’s improved core signal handling and test coverage—showing attention to graceful shutdowns and maintainability in production services. Equally comfortable writing internal gems, deployment tooling and machine-learning-backed SaaS features, Adam blends pragmatic engineering with a Scrum-minded leadership style that fosters a kind, high-performing culture.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow
English, German
Github Skills (8)
ruby-rails10
kafka10
apache-kafka10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
rspec9
open-source9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
karafka/karafka
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
Ruby and Rails efficient Kafka processing framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 21 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Adam focused on implementing and refactoring core components of the Karafka framework, specifically related to signal management and termination processes. This involved creating a `Terminator` class to handle signals like SIGINT, and integrating it into the `Runner` class for graceful application shutdown. They also added specs to increase test coverage, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and maintainability.
active-jobapache-kafkarubyruby-and-railskafka-producer
agwozdowski/academy-test
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 day
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