Robin Pokorny
Senior Staff Engineer at Ataccama
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRobin Pokorny is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of experience designing modular, scalable architectures and aligning technical strategy with business goals for enterprise customers. He combines deep expertise in microservices, distributed systems, GraphQL/Relay, and TypeScript with a pragmatic, constraints-aware approach that favors measurable impact and team autonomy. At Productboard and Klarna he shaped platform direction, standardized system design hiring, and led company-wide developer experience and open-source initiatives that increased internal collaboration and public projects. Beyond product work he contributes to high-profile open-source tooling—improving Jest’s async testing and inline snapshot behavior—and evangelizes engineering craft through conference talks, meetups, and a podcast on staff+ engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s (coursework completed) Mathematical Analysis Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Master’s (coursework completed) Mathematical Analysis Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
es6-promise10
testing10
jestjs10
async-await10
ecmascript10
react10
bower9
snapshots9
immutablejs8
yeoman6
versioning6
semantic-versioning6
functional-programming6
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jestjs/jest
Mar 2017 - Jul 2022
Delightful JavaScript Testing.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 23 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robin contributed to the testing infrastructure of the Jest JavaScript testing framework. Their work focused on improving the robustness and accuracy of the test suite by fixing issues related to asynchronous code testing with Promises and async/await. They also updated documentation to reflect changes in testing asynchronous code and enhanced the functionality of inline snapshot testing. The user also addressed issues around the equal comparison for Immutable.js data structures.
painless-javascript-testingjesttestingjavascriptfacebook
robinpokorny/grunt-legacssy
Aug 2013 - Mar 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 8 months
fixmobile-first-cssbrowserscsslegacy-browsers
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