Arek Gil
Staff Software Engineer at Whatnot
Cracow Metropolitan Area Poland
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Top SchoolArek Gil is a Staff Software Engineer based in the Cracow Metropolitan Area with 15 years of experience building backend and distributed systems. He progressed from hands-on backend roles at Erlang Solutions and PSPDFKit to engineering management and now senior technical leadership at Whatnot, blending deep implementation experience with team coaching. Focused on functional programming and distributed systems, Arek is a fast learner who thrives in collaborative environments and consistently ships reliable, scalable services. His background suggests strong expertise in fault-tolerant systems and concurrent architectures—skills reinforced by long tenure in Erlang/Elixir-centered teams. Always curious, he pairs academic grounding from AGH University with practical, cross-functional delivery in fast-moving product environments.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Informatyka, Informatyka at AGH University of Krakow
Polish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
mongodb6
ejs6
react6
nodejs6
mern6
caching6
mongoose6
javascript6
discord-js6
html5-canvas4
jsinterop4
api3
canvas3
webassembly3
blazor3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
voland/ViSD
Dec 2010 - Feb 2011
Contributions:40 commits in 1 month
voland/gilbtdoc
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 56 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
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