Tomasz Finc is a seasoned infrastructure and engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling global teams and production systems across organizations like Wikipedia, Nylas, Crunchyroll, and Amazon. He has a track record of founding and launching large-scale products—most notably architecting Wikipedia Mobile to serve 10 billion monthly mobile pageviews and delivering Free Wikipedia access to millions in the developing world. At startups and mid-stage companies he combines hands-on engineering with operational rigor, leading migrations to microservices, SOC 2 readiness, and reliability-first practices that reduced incidents and lowered costs. As VP/Head of Engineering roles he repeatedly grew teams from single digits to 30+ engineers while introducing repeatable release, security, and monitoring frameworks. He contributes to developer tooling and build stability in open-source projects (e.g., Nylas Mail) with a focus on CI, linting, and Windows build resilience. Based in San Francisco and drawing on a cognitive science degree from UC Berkeley, he pairs human-centered leadership with deep systems and infrastructure expertise.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Cognitive Science, Bachelor's degree Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
:love_letter: An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web. Forks welcome!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:30 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tomasz's primary focus in this repository involves linting configuration and build process. They implemented changes to exclude files from linting, updated eslint configurations, and removed the linter entirely in some cases. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to the Windows build process, implementing retry mechanisms to mitigate transient failures. These contributions center around ensuring build stability, code quality control and efficient builds.
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
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