Hi, I'm Jacek Galanciak
I'm a Ruby gangster, Rails hooligan, and system design sicario. The industry loves its ninjas and rockstars – I can outdumb that.
- 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 ship fast on new product work and bring depth to mature Rails codebases. I read the business context – strategy, stage, constraints – and pick the engineering approach that matches. Where this plays out:
- microservices, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design
- 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/sorting, and my dotfiles reflect years of tooling refinement.
I'm currently Lead Engineer at Plane (YC W17, formerly Pilot), a global payroll and HR platform for distributed teams.
Feel free to contact me at [email protected] . You can also view my résumé. I'm careful about your data, see Privacy Policy.