Karol Słuszniak is a pragmatic CTO and founder with 11+ years of experience building and scaling web products from the ground up, combining hands-on Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix and React expertise with product-minded technical leadership. He led major architecture and growth efforts at Fresha/Shedul—helping the product scale from a small team to a global SaaS with a $105M valuation—and now runs multiple ventures including Heyplay.io and Pubray while serving as Rey’s CTO. Karol is equally at home shipping backend architecture and crafting playful multiplayer browser games, reflecting a rare blend of infrastructure rigor and product-driven creativity. An active tech blogger and longtime open-web enthusiast, he often experiments with DevOps automation and game mechanics to make technology more approachable. Based in Warsaw, he brings entrepreneurial grit, a track record of introducing Elixir/Phoenix into Rails teams, and an appetite for turning ambitious ideas into polished, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at AGH University of Krakow
Implement texter classes for sending SMS messages in similar way to how e-mails are sent with ActionMailer-based mailers. Take advantage of e-mail proxying and enhanced phone number parsing, among others.
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