Kevin Soltysiak
Backend Software Engineer at Pennylane
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Soltysiak is a backend software engineer with 13 years of experience building web applications, APIs, and high-traffic services using Ruby, Rails, JavaScript and Ember.js. He has progressed from freelance and agency work to staff-level engineering roles at Scalingo and now contributes backend work at Pennylane, bringing strong expertise in maintaining legacy systems and shipping new features. Comfortable across databases (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis), command-line tools, and occasional Go and RubyMotion work, he pairs pragmatic engineering with formal training in systems programming, functional programming and applied mathematics. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication and collaborative problem-solving—he treats clients and teammates as partners in every project. An understated strength is his breadth: he moves easily between product-facing front-end concerns and deep backend operational needs.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Computer science, Licence Computer science at Pierre and Marie Curie UniversityLicence Computer science, Licence Computer science at Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg I)
French, English
Stackoverflow
12,035reputation
801kreached
238answers
48questions
ruby
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (180)
pg-search10
metadata10
ruby10
javascript-framework10
emberjs10
ember10
scopes10
javascript10
linux10
api10
sdk10
trigrams10
type-validation10
ruby-wrapper10
typescript10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ksol/ksol.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2024
Sources for my website.
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 66 pushes in 9 years 5 months
sources
ksol/stations
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
List of stations and associated metadata
Contributions:8 PRs, 35 pushes, 51 branches in 1 year 7 months
stationsmetadata
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