Adam Kunicki
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAdam Kunicki is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building backend systems at scale. Currently at Airbnb, he focuses on reliable, production-ready services and improving developer workflows. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed auth-backend improvements to the popular Backstage developer portal, enhancing JWT header customization and fixing refresh and routing edge cases. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he combines attention to security and developer experience when shipping features. Colleagues describe him as a steady engineer who surfaces subtle bugs before they reach production.
13 years of coding experience
Polish, English, Russian, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
back-end-development10
authentication10
user-authentication10
backstage10
portal10
apidoc9
typescript9
typescript-types9
api9
typescripts9
gcp8
google-cloud-platform8
apache-kafka6
producer6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 1 commit, 10 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the auth-backend functionality of the Backstage project. They added a feature to customize the header name for the IAP JWT and addressed an issue where the refresh handler was not returning the persisted scope. The user also fixed handling of root routes when query parameters are present.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
kunickiaj/datacollector
Dec 2015 - Dec 2020
StreamSets DataCollector - Continuous big data ingest infrastructure
Contributions:4 PRs, 49 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years
continuousinfrastructuredataopsbig-dataspark
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