Rafał Augustyniak is a Staff iOS Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient mobile platforms and cross-platform infrastructure, currently at Airbnb. He has led production rollouts of networking stacks like Envoy Mobile and owned client-side frameworks for analytics, telemetry, and A/B experimentation at Lyft, delivering features that saved millions through offline resiliency. Comfortable across native iOS, Android, and systems languages (Rust, C++), he blends deep mobile networking expertise with observability and fault-injection tooling. An active open-source contributor, his work spans popular projects such as Envoy and several iOS UI libraries, demonstrating a mix of production-grade backend integration and polished client UX. He also brings startup grit from founding bitdrift, pairing strategic product thinking with hands-on engineering.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science (MS) Computer Science Specialization: Design of CAD/CAM Systems, Master of Computer Science (MS) Computer Science Specialization: Design of CAD/CAM Systems at Warsaw University of Technology
Library providing easy-to-use interface for displaying tree structures on iOS and tvOS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:7 releases, 91 commits, 48 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rafał primarily contributed to the development of the iOS and tvOS tree view library, implementing features for expanding and collapsing rows, managing accessory views, and adding new delegate methods. Their work involved modifying both the core `RATreeView` components and the example `RAViewController` to demonstrate the library's functionality, adding to the overall UI. These contributions also included improvements in the management of the tree view's data, and bug fixes.
FileExplorer is a powerful iOS file browser that allows its users to choose and remove files and/or directories
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
Contributions:5 releases, 49 commits, 16 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Rafał primarily focused on enhancing the FileExplorer iOS app, fixing pod dependencies and snapshot tests. They implemented UI improvements, addressed layout issues related to the filter view, and improved the documentation. The user also made code improvements and removed unnecessary code within the testing framework, and implemented a dedicated view controller for unknown file types.
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