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 hands-on web development experience, specializing in Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. He has led backend teams at Gabi (Experian) and built high-impact monolithic Rails systems that power daily signups, integrations with Twilio, Intercom and others, and a Liquid-based templating system. Comfortable wearing many hats from early-stage product development to CI/CD and Elasticsearch indexing, he thrives on owning both architecture and day-to-day delivery. An active open-source contributor, Adam has improved Emacs tooling (helm-projectile, Spacemacs) and extended support for Elixir projects, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity across languages including Clojure. Based in Poland, he pairs solid academic training with a proven record of shipping reliable, production-grade web platforms.
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 (16)
configuration-management10
rails10
configurations10
emacs10
helm10
configuration-file10
ruby-on-rails10
emacs-lisp10
ruby10
bundler9
project-management9
vim9
rake9
rspec9
projectile9
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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