Rafał Słota
Staff Software Engineer at V7
Cracow Metropolitan Area Poland
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Top SchoolRafał Słota is a Staff Software Engineer based in the Cracow metropolitan area with 13 years of experience building and leading backend teams for high-scale, fault-tolerant systems. He moves fluidly between hands-on development and technical leadership, having progressed from senior engineer roles to tech lead and engineering manager positions at companies like Erlang Solutions, BlockFi, and V7. Comfortable across languages and paradigms, he favors bleeding-edge technologies but selects tools pragmatically to fit the problem, and has deep experience with distributed systems and clustered server software. His open-source work includes backend contributions and complex merges for MongooseIM, an enterprise-grade Erlang XMPP server, reflecting familiarity with telecom-grade reliability and conflict-resolution in large codebases. Rafał also taught university courses on NLP and web applications, signaling an ability to distill complex concepts and mentor engineers. Colleagues rely on him for rapid problem solving, thoughtful architecture decisions, and keeping teams productive in fast-moving, technically demanding environments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Witkowski High School, CracowAGH University
Polish, English
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Github Skills (11)
xmpp10
erlang10
backend10
messaging10
back-end-development10
version-control9
xml9
git9
erlang-otp6
logging6
elixir6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
esl/MongooseIM
Dec 2016 - Aug 2019
MongooseIM is Erlang Solutions' robust, scalable and efficient XMPP server, aimed at large installations. Specifically designed for enterprise purposes, it is fault-tolerant and can utilise the resources of multiple clustered machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:146 commits, 48 PRs, 304 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rafał primarily focused on merging branches and resolving conflicts within the codebase. Their commits reveal involvement in various backend components, including core application logic, configuration files, and database interactions. The user's work touched upon multiple aspects of the project, suggesting a role in maintaining and integrating different backend modules, but the specific nature of the changes is not described in the provided commit messages.
fault-tolerantscalablexmpp-servererlangxmpp
rslota/pigeon
Feb 2017 - May 2020
iOS and Android push notifications for Elixir - high performance fork for MongoosePush platform
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 years 4 months
pushelixirandroidpush-notificationsnotifications
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