Rafal Wilinski
Founding Engineer at Runlayer
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolRafal Wilinski is a founding engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years building serverless, cloud-native, and applied AI products from Poland. As founder of Dynobase and former AI Agents Lead and Senior Engineer at Zapier, he blends product-driven engineering with hands-on applied AI work. His background spans backend, DevOps and full-stack contributions—improving developer experience in widely used projects like the Serverless Framework and shipping realtime monitoring for Express apps. He moves fluidly between building startups (Runlayer, Dynobase) and leading AI initiatives at scale, often focusing on reliability, testing, and DX. Notably, his open-source commits reveal a pragmatic attention to error handling, plugin management and documentation UX rather than only headline features. He holds a Computer Science degree from Poznan University of Technology and prefers solving practical infrastructure problems that accelerate developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Poznan University of Technology
English, German, Polish
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Github Skills (31)
monitoring10
javascript10
expressjs10
testing10
chartjs10
amazon-dynamodb10
dynamoose10
dynamodb10
aws10
serverless10
nodejs10
plugin-development9
css9
web-frontend9
unity-game-engine9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
RafalWilinski/express-status-monitor
Jul 2016 - Apr 2022
🚀 Realtime Monitoring solution for Node.js/Express.js apps, inspired by status.github.com, sponsored by https://dynobase.dev
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 215 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rafal primarily contributed to the front-end development of a real-time monitoring solution for Node.js/Express.js applications. Their work involved implementing and improving the user interface, including the addition of new charts for displaying performance metrics. They also added support for response times and requests per second, enhancing the monitoring capabilities. Furthermore, they worked on refactoring the codebase and improving the overall user experience by providing more default intervals.
expressjsmonitoringnodejssocketmiddleware
serverless/serverless
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:128 commits, 58 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Rafal focused on improving the serverless framework's plugin management and configuration. They implemented error handling and added tests to ensure plugins are loaded correctly and that duplicate plugins are avoided. Furthermore, the user made changes to improve the API and functionality of the invoke local command including the addition of context and contextPath flags. Their work demonstrates a focus on code quality, testing, and improving the developer experience within the framework.
aws-lambdacloud-serviceslambdaserverless-frameworkserverless
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