Hi, I'm Jacek Galanciak
I'm a Ruby gangster, Rails hooligan, and system design sicario. The industry has its ninjas and rockstars – I figured I could outdumb them.
- Lead Engineer at Plane (YC W17)
- Rails since 2007
- 20+ years remote
- Platform + product architecture
- 1.8k stars in OSS
Twenty years of writing software, mostly Ruby. I move quickly on new product work, and I bring patience to mature Rails codebases. What I've shipped has tended to last – the major systems are still in production, several Rails majors and a few pivots later.
- distributed systems that talk over queues, and the architecture work of keeping them comprehensible
- Ruby and Rails since 2007 (started on 1.8.5 / 1.2)
- domain knowledge in HRIS, payroll, edtech, and real estate
- remote work: 20+ years fully remote from Poland, with teams across Europe, Asia, and North America
I write about programming on my blog and build open source tools. quicksand.js (1.8k stars) is a vintage jQuery plugin for animated filtering and sorting. Want to see my workshop? My dotfiles repo goes back 14 years.
I'm currently Lead Engineer at Plane (YC W17, formerly Pilot), a global payroll and HR platform.
Recently shipped
mix.mp3 + tracklist + cover art = an audio-reactive MP4, ready for YouTube.Vibe coded? Nope, agentically engineered!
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