drkn.dev

Career

Experience

Where I have worked and what I did there.

  1. May 2025 – Now

    Lead Product Engineer

    Crypto Company · United States

    Lead engineer on a customer dashboard and an internal admin panel for a crypto company, in a Next.js and tRPC monorepo, from product features to data layer, security and delivery pipeline.

    • Designed the widgets architecture behind both apps: self-contained tabs, imperative modals and filterable data tables, shared through internal packages.
    • Built customer-facing account, access management and reporting features end to end, including scheduled and custom reports with CSV and Excel exports.
    • Rebuilt an analytics data layer on BigQuery with typed queries and tiered caching.
    • Strengthened authorization across a multi-tenant tRPC backend, with violation monitoring in Sentry.
    • Cut build times by over 4x by migrating from pnpm to Bun and optimizing Docker builds on Google Cloud; automated release and dependency-update pull requests gated on CI.
    • Cut monorepo typechecks to about 3 seconds by moving to TypeScript 7 (tsgo), oxlint and oxfmt, porting the custom guardrail lint rules 1:1.
    • Built a Promptfoo evaluation harness for the team's Claude Code setup and used it to A/B test agent configurations: 3-4x faster execution and over 50% fewer turns with no loss in accuracy.
    • Added structured logging, Sentry and a Playwright end-to-end suite.
    • TypeScript
    • Next.js
    • tRPC
    • Drizzle
    • Postgres
    • BigQuery
    • Bun
    • Agentic workflows
  2. May 2023 – Aug 2026

    Founder

    Localesy · Poland

    Founded and built Localesy, a translation management product for fast-moving teams that syncs translations across projects and codebases and automates localization.

    • Designed and built the whole product: translation sync across projects and codebases, and localization automation that lets teams ship in minutes.
    • Built the web app on React Router, tRPC, Drizzle and Postgres, and the Next.js landing page and docs site.
    • Shipped a GitHub App that reads locale files from repositories and opens pull requests with translation updates.
    • Designed a type-safe diff engine with three-way merge for reviewing and reconciling translation changes.
    • Built the AI translation engine with organization-level glossaries inferred from the customer's codebase, with quality assessment and proposed suggestions for low-quality entries.
    • Built a translation quality benchmark suite: any model, input set and prompt through the production pipeline, MQM assessment by two LLM judges, and significance tests behind a provider leaderboard.
    • Built internal tooling: a competitor capability matrix across localization platforms, a prompt simulator for the translation pipeline, and an observability layer.
    • Shipped Stripe billing with Free, Pro and Max plans on a credit model, and moved background jobs from SST to Trigger.dev.
    • Published the Localesy CLI on npm (TypeScript, Bun) to push, pull and translate locale files from the terminal and CI; its local analyzer sends only metadata.
    • Automated npm releases with OIDC publishing, covered the app and CLI with Playwright end-to-end tests in CI, and wired Sentry and PostHog for monitoring and product metrics.
    • Localization
    • AI
    • Agentic workflows
    • TypeScript
    • React Router
    • tRPC
    • Drizzle
    • Postgres
    • Next.js
  3. Sep 2021 – Mar 2023

    Team Lead, Mentor and Expert React Native Developer

    Callstack

    Worked with enterprise and unicorn companies on cross-platform solutions with high traffic and business impact.

    • Led teams delivering React Native and Expo apps for enterprise and unicorn clients, and mentored the developers on them.
    • Led a team bringing native-like list performance to a sports betting unicorn's brownfield React Native app, with a long run of performance and code quality improvements.
    • Led a performance and code quality audit for a client that produced 60+ actionable items with measurable impact, then delivered the improvements.
    • Built a shared cross-platform component library and a long-term refactoring strategy, and automated development processes to speed up delivery.
    • Hosted knowledge-sharing workshops for clients, including Redux Toolkit for one team, and set up the internal knowledge-sharing space.
    • Contributed to open source, including 15 merged pull requests to React Native Paper: Material You theming and the Docusaurus docs migration.
    • React Native
    • Expo
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
  4. Apr 2019 – Aug 2021

    Full Stack Engineer

    Selleo · Bielsko-Biała, Poland

    Full-stack work at a web and mobile software house that serves start-ups and SMEs in Europe, North America and Australia.

    • RESTful APIs and integrations.
    • Validation, automation and verification solutions.
    • Translated business needs into application development.
    • Compliance and risk assessment.
    • User experience work and automated application tests.
    • Ember.js
    • Elixir
    • React
    • Next.js
  5. 2017 – Apr 2019

    Full Stack Engineer

    Freelance

    Web solutions for freelance clients, from API to interface.

    • Laravel RESTful APIs and web solutions.
    • UX and UI development.
    • Cloud solutions with AWS and Firebase.
    • Database management.
    • React
    • Laravel
    • AWS
    • Firebase