Kamil Nicieja
Lead Software Engineer at Before Growth
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorKamil Nicieja is a lead software engineer and three-time founder with 12 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across the US and Europe. Based in San Francisco, he currently leads payroll architecture and data-model redesign at Plane to deliver a unified payroll, benefits, and international payments platform. He combines hands-on engineering (Ruby on Rails, TensorFlow) with product leadership and domain-driven design expertise, having built ML pipelines, big-data infrastructure, and remote teams as Ada.place CTO. An advocate of Specification by Example, he authored a practical book on writing executable Gherkin specs and frequently surfaces early-stage startup insights through his blog Before Growth. Known for shifting between deep technical work and cross-functional product ownership, he excels at turning complex regulatory and data challenges into auditable, testable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (51)
render10
dry-rb10
tailwindcss9
heroku9
changelog9
range-picker9
sorbet8
partials8
jquery8
like-button8
rails8
sass8
ruby8
dynamic-forms8
chatgpt8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nicieja/dotfiles
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
A set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files.
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
vimtmuxtmux-configurationconfiguration-filesneovim
changepack/changepack
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
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Contributions:11 releases, 9 reviews, 214 commits in 5 months
changelogchatgptdesigndry-rbheroku
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