Summary
Rafał Pocztarski is a Senior Software Engineer with over 16 years of professional experience and a lifelong passion for programming that began at age six. He specializes in backend engineering, platform tooling and libraries, with deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript and regular work in Go, Python, C and even assembly. A visible community leader, Rafał holds a Node.js Gold Badge on Stack Overflow (top 0.14% globally) and has authored 1000+ answers and numerous conference talks on Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript and Deno. He has led and architected backend teams and platforms across startups and scale-ups, most recently on Ramp’s platform team and now at Paramount, and has run his own consulting practice. Self-taught and continuously learning, he prefers remote roles and is particularly drawn to challenging backend projects that push runtime and tooling boundaries. An uncommon detail: his public reputation and long tenure in Node.js date back to 2010, making him one of the earliest senior Node.js practitioners in Europe.
16 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Autodidact Computer Programming, Autodidact Computer Programming at Self-taught
English, Polish