Rafał Rudol
Tech Lead & Senior Software Engineer
@ Snowflake
Strengths
Highly experienced frontend engineer (React ecosystem) with broad backend and cloud proficiency.Capable team leader with strong soft skills. I am utilizing people's potential and supporting their professional growth.I can deliver the highest quality product with tight deadlines, ensuring maintainability and stability.Highly organized and flexible. Even under pressure and dynamic scope I am able to understand and address business needs.
Education
Poznań University of Technology
2014 - 2019
Master in Distributed Systems
Bachelor in Computer Science
I acquired a strong foundation in computer science, programming, networking, and software development.I was aleader of a science group, focused on building a local community of people passionate about web technologies, AKAI for almost 3 years. As a group we have organized a lot of local events and competed in hackathons.
Summary
I am a highly proficient software engineer with over 12 years of experience in building all kinds of web applications, from small startups to big tech. I am passionate about making an impact throughout technology, which constantly motivates me to learn and grow even further. You can trust that my strong sense of ownership will make an impact that will lead to a business success. I have proved my leadership skills through planning and leading the delivery of the highest quality complex software products on time. Accessibility, stability, and maintainability are values I never compromise on. I can easily get into new business domains and feel well even in the most complex and challenging projects. Uncertainty, the dynamic scope of work, and tight deadlines do not worry me. I navigate them with confidence and precision.
Work experience & Accomplishments
Snowflake
2022 - present
Tech Lead
- Led a team of eight engineers, utilizing their full potential, supporting their professional growth and evaluating their performance. We cooperated in a dynamic environment with agile methodology.
- Defined, workshopped and estimated the scope for each work quarter. I made sure that the team’s work is aligned with company OKRs and business goals in order to provide the customer with satisfactory service.
- Dealt with high expectations and strict deadlines, of multiple projects at once. Cooperated work of 7 teams to deliver multiple services with highest quality.
- Owned and being responsible for the stability and quality of 7 projects at the same time.
- Goals required aligning with timelines of multiple teams. I was responsible for establishing communication and ways of working multiple teams.
Senior Software Engineer
- Took part in multiple on-call programs that ensured highest SLA of the platform and particular services.
- Worked and took ownership over web products that were used by thousands of customers daily.
- Built software that is highly accessible, scalable, performant and secure.
- Built complex systems that were integrated with many services.
- Cooperated with designers and Product Managers to deliver best-in-class UX/UI.
- Built design system components in order to migrate the legacy code.
- Took part in many initiatives to standardize the code.
Netguru
2019 - 2022
Technical Expert in Business Development
- Consulted technical needs for over 30 inbound and outbound customers. I was responsible for reading through their business plan, understanding their areas of expertise, suggesting solutions and providing support for developing projects.
- Designed architectures of the projects and chose technological stack for several startup applications.
- Reviewed scope of customers’ ideas, estimating cost and time needed to finish initiatives.
Team Leader
- Led a team of eight developers across multiple client projects. Evaluated the performance of direct reports, conducted one-on-one meetings, and actively supported their professional growth.
Senior Frontend Developer
- Created a MVP of a web application for a car insurance company that let them pitch their product to investors.
- Regularly performed technical interviews (internal and external) with frontend developers for many different projects.
- Built a web application for a Fintech customer. I was responsible for the user interface of KYC and the investing processes. I executed TypeScript migration and brought good code-writing practices like linting and testing.
- Delivered, as a single developer, fully functional application for a customer from the medical sector with assured quality for all kinds of older devices compatible with all kinds of older devices.
- Worked on a referrals program application for a US real estate company. I solved problems related to listing and visualizing the big batch of data.
Wunderman Thompson Technology (ex Cognifide)
2016 - 2019
Junior Frontend Developer
- Led frontend team in a project of web application for marketing purposes.
- Built marketing websites and web applications for multinational enterprises (automotive, consumer goods, and telecommunications).
- Took part in a business development initiative, rapidly creating visually stunning and highly customizable websites for marketing campaigns and Proofs of Concept.
- Addressed marketing needs of big customers from the private banking sector.
- Built a website for a sport championship from scratch to finish.
Freelance web developer
2013 - 2016
Frontend Developer
- Built landing pages for local businesses.
- Created templates for popular Content Management Systems.
- Extended existing web applications with new features.
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