Krzysztof Knapik
Director Of Engineering at RenoFi
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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Top SchoolKrzysztof Knapik is a Director of Engineering with over 16 years of hands-on experience architecting and operating service-oriented Ruby platforms, currently leading product engineering and infrastructure at RenoFi. He blends deep Ruby expertise with cloud-native practices—Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and GCP—to deliver well-tested, maintainable backends and CI/CD across international, multi-timezone teams. As an active open-source maintainer and creator of notable Ruby gems (including contributions to the widely used i18n library and authoring gems like vidar and rack-graphql), he brings a proven focus on robustness and internationalization. His background spans startups and high-throughput services (e.g., TextMaster’s translation platform), and he often pairs strategic architectural leadership with continuing hands-on development. A former Krakow Ruby meetup organizer and conference speaker, he combines community leadership with pragmatic engineering.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate at Proidea Cisco AcademyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computing Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computing Sciences at University of East AngliaMSc Electronics and Telecommunications: Networks and Services, MSc Electronics and Telecommunications: Networks and Services at AGH University of Krakow
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Github Skills (8)
i18n-js10
ember-i18n10
rails-i18n10
encoding10
ruby10
yaml9
testing8
internationalization7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ruby-i18n/i18n
Dec 2012 - Jan 2019
Internationalization (i18n) library for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Krzysztof primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Ruby i18n library. Their work included addressing issues related to character encoding and transliteration across different Ruby versions, resolving YAML syntax errors, and fixing problems with invalid syntax. The user also reverted a previous change that caused issues. These commits demonstrate a focus on the core functionality and stability of the i18n library.
translationinternationalizationrubylocalizationcldr
RenoFi/fishplate
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Fishplate is a library allowing running ActiveRecord without Railties
Contributions:2 reviews, 163 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 3 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrubybackendactiverecord
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