Summary
Rafał Salwa is a Technical Team Lead with nine years of hands-on experience building and migrating backend systems using PHP and Go, and a practical leaning toward DevOps and AWS. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver high-availability microservices, REST/gRPC APIs and Backend-For-Frontend solutions for e-commerce and OTA platforms, often improving performance and throughput through query optimization and static analysis. Rafał has orchestrated migrations of legacy systems into containerized, cloud-native architectures (ECS/EKS, Lambdas) and strengthened CI/CD pipelines with full dockerization. He combines day-to-day coding with mentoring and operational ownership—managing analytics pipelines, messaging (SQS/SNS), and large-scale batch recalculations that process hundreds of thousands of records daily. Notably, he has repeatedly revived struggling products and teams, turning technical debt into maintainable services while keeping business needs front and center. Based in Holy Cross Voivodeship, Poland, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a communicative, collaborative approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Information Technology, Engineer's degree Information Technology at Kielce University of Technology
Technician Elektronika, Technician Elektronika at Technikum nr 7 w Kielcach
Polish, English