Adam Sokolnicki - Backend Team Leader at Gabi, a part of Experian

Adam Sokolnicki

Backend Team Leader at Gabi, a part of Experian

Poland

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Adam 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.

16 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 Technology

Master, Computer, Master, Computer at Politechnika Łódzka

Polish, eng, spa

Github Skills (16)

configuration-management10

configurations10

rails10

emacs10

helm10

configuration-file10

ruby-on-rails10

emacs-lisp10

ruby10

bundler9

project-management9

vim9

rake9

rspec9

projectile9

Programming languages (10)

C++CRustJavaScriptHTMLRubyElixirEmacs Lisp

Github contributions (5)

bbatsov/projectile

Oct 2012 - Jun 2016

Project Interaction Library for Emacs

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions: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.

emacsprojectileemacs-lispproject-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

Contributions: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.

emacsvimcommunity-drivenconfigurationspacemacs

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