Christo Grabowski
Software Engineer - Extensibility at Airbyte
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristo Grabowski is an AI-native software engineer with three years of hands-on experience building and improving API source connectors and extensibility features at Airbyte, the leading open-source data integration platform. Transitioning from a background in theater and events, he brings a strong emphasis on user experience and clear documentation, having improved connector UX, error messaging, and setup flows across multiple projects. As a full-stack contributor to the prominent airbytehq/airbyte repo, he has delivered front-end clarity and backend connector reliability, including enhancements to S3 and Notion sources. Based in Oakland and forged through freelance web work and on-call support, he blends customer-facing empathy with disciplined engineering practices. Collected performance experience (stage and events) informs his collaborative, detail-oriented approach to shipping robust, user-centric data tooling.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Theatre/Theater, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Theatre/Theater, Magna Cum Laude at Middlebury CollegeComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at App Academy
Github Skills (15)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:239 reviews, 656 PRs, 1466 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Christo's commits primarily focus on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Airbyte platform. They improved the visual clarity of the navigation bar by adjusting group headers, active menu links, and colors. Additionally, the user addressed connection errors by implementing user-friendly messaging. They also contributed to the source S3 connector to always show S3 Access Key fields and add new features to the source notion integration like availability strategy.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
ChristoGrab/Travel-Inn
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
An AirBnB Clone using Express for backend
Contributions:401 commits, 128 PRs, 348 pushes in 4 months
expressjsairbnbexpressairbnb-clonebackend
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