Summary
Paweł Pacana is a Staff Engineer with 15+ years building and modernizing high‑traffic Rails platforms, specializing in domain-driven design, event sourcing, and pragmatic migrations of legacy monoliths. He leads and maintains the RailsEventStore open‑source project, trains engineers through Arkency’s masterclasses, and regularly speaks at Ruby meetups, combining deep Rails expertise with thoughtful architecture. His work spans backend optimizations, CI and Docker improvements, and frontend apps in Elm, and he’s solved subtle production issues like cache leaks and memory OOMs that eluded others. Comfortable working directly with CTOs and cross-functional teams, he’s delivered zero‑downtime migrations and reliable verification systems that enabled safe product iterations. Based in Lower Silesia, Poland, Paweł pairs hands‑on engineering with mentorship and a knack for turning legacy constraints into scalable, observable systems.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Wrocław University of Science and Technology