Michał Szajbe
Backend Team Lead at Knowtrex GmbH
Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMichał Szajbe is a Backend Team Lead with 17 years of engineering experience and 15+ years focused on building scalable web and backend systems across e-commerce, telephony, and market intelligence domains. He combines hands-on expertise in Elixir/OTP, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch and Redis with proven leadership—architecting high-throughput data pipelines, leading distributed teams, and owning core backend strategy. Notable work includes designing a distributed search and ranking platform processing millions of products daily and operating control-plane services for a globally distributed telephony platform. A pragmatic open-source contributor and continuous learner, he blends operational reliability with a developer-centric approach to reduce technical debt and improve developer productivity. Based in Bydgoszcz, Poland, he is equally comfortable mentoring engineers, hiring and scaling teams, and rolling up his sleeves to ship critical components.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Polish, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (173)
programming-language10
realtime10
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
ruby10
payment-integration10
hotel-booking10
payment10
refinery-cms10
spree10
scalable10
shopify10
elixir10
api-server10
phoenix-framework10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
team-telnyx/pogo
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
Distributed supervisor for clustered Elixir applications
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
distributedelixirsupervisor
monterail/hotels_pro
Aug 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:69 commits in 1 month
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