Rafał Malinowski
Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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SeniorRafał Malinowski is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant infrastructure and backend systems from Poland's West Pomeranian region. He has driven Kafka migrations to managed AWS MSK, introduced Aerospike and consistent-hashing sharding for MySQL tables with 500M+ rows, and designed rapid blue/green and canary deployment processes to minimize downtime. As a former technical team lead and recurring conference speaker and organizer, he blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, hiring, and process improvements. His background spans high-throughput ad-tech systems, search engines, and multi-datacenter deployments with automated scaling for billions of daily impressions. Rafał runs his own consultancy while shaping infrastructure vision at Castle, showing both entrepreneurial initiative and sustained operational ownership. Less obvious: he pairs deep systems work with developer ergonomics—introducing Vagrant, traceable SSH, and rapid rollback tooling to make complex platforms safer and faster to operate.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (102)
jenkins-plugin10
iterm10
netlify10
container-image10
aws10
jekyll10
compliance10
castle10
sublime-text-plugin10
aws-security9
static-analysis9
sdk9
azure9
vulnerabilities9
terraform9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
afterdesign/afterdesign.net
Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
afterdesign.net blog
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
reactnextjs
afterdesign/malinowski.dev
Apr 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
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