Agnieszka Figiel
Senior Ruby Engineer at Reedsy
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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Top SchoolAgnieszka Figiel is a Senior Ruby Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating data-driven web backends, currently shaping platforms at Reedsy. She specializes in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and cloud-native DevOps (AWS, GCP, CI/CD, Terraform), and has led architecture and infrastructure work for large public-facing environmental data projects. At vizzuality she designed APIs and databases for rich visualisation tools like TRASE and Climate Watch, combining backend craftsmanship with deployment and infra ownership. Previously she directed technical strategy and coached teams at UNEP-WCMC, and earlier pioneered RoR adoption in Poland while teaching the framework at university. Comfortable moving between code, data modelling and infrastructure, she brings a researcher’s attention to detail from her MSc and early text-analysis work. Colleagues value her for turning complex, domain-rich requirements into reliable, maintainable systems that scale.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
European Summer School in Information Retrieval, European Summer School in Information Retrieval at University of GlasgowMSc, Computer Science, specialty: “Software and database systems engineering”, MSc, Computer Science, specialty: “Software and database systems engineering” at AGH University of Krakowpostgraduate course, Specialist Translation (PL <=> EN), postgraduate course, Specialist Translation (PL <=> EN) at Jagiellonian University
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (86)
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typescript10
satellite-imagery10
redux10
frontend10
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react10
in-progress9
rails-engines9
nextjs9
rails9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ClimateWatch-Vizzuality/climate-watch-gems
Aug 2018 - Aug 2023
Climate Watch rails engines gems to reuse in country platforms
Contributions:24 PRs, 56 pushes, 28 branches in 5 years
climaterailsrails-engineplatformsmongoid
unepwcmc/epix
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:54 PRs, 124 pushes, 60 branches in 6 months
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