Tom Dracz
Engineering Lead at Simply Business
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Dracz is an engineering lead with 11 years' experience specialising in Ruby on Rails and DevOps, currently driving platform and product delivery at Simply Business in London. He blends hands-on technical leadership with a user-focused mindset, translating business needs into pragmatic, scalable solutions across web stacks and cloud infrastructure. His background spans tech lead and product-facing roles at Monterosa, Sanctus and Cleversteam, giving him a strong track record in analysing user behaviour and shipping features that matter. With an academic grounding in Economics and Political Science, he brings a systems-level view that helps prioritise impact over technical novelty. Tom is comfortable toggling between coding, ops and product strategy, treating technology as a means to measurable outcomes rather than an end in itself.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, 38, High School, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, 38 at VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Juliusza Słowackiego w KielcachBachelor's Degree, Economics and Political Science, 2:1, Bachelor's Degree, Economics and Political Science, 2:1 at University of Birmingham
English, Polish, German, Russian
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28answers
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Github Skills (148)
parser10
mvc10
ruby10
heroku-deployment10
activerecord10
redux-store10
javascript-api10
ruby-on-rails10
rendering10
react-rails10
html10
server-side10
redux-saga10
rails10
server-side-rendering10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tomdracz/shakapacker
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 69 pushes in 3 months
javascript-modulesrailsjavascriptbrowserifywebpack
jasonfb/HelloShakapakerRails7C
May 2022 - Mar 2024
example app for https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker/issues/123
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 9 months
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