Tom Ciborski

Tech Lead

Personal summary

A long time ago my father purchased JTT ADAX computer with Celeron 400 MHz and 128 MB RAM in it. Since then it made me spend countless of hours constructing cities and battling monsters.

Playing games is very entertaining and makes you feel like a hero. However, up until a point…

After some time I realised that my actions in game are repetitive and I am just doing similar things over and over again.
Suddenly, an idea struck me!

Why not automate it? I still can become an in-game hero, I gain more time to smarten my strategies and, also, I can do it for multiple games and for multiple accounts and make them cooperate… and it only goes exponential from here!

When I was 17 I wrote my first bot for a game called Lineage II. I was so fond of the program that I decided to start my professional career.

Areas of competence

I feel comfortable operating where analysis, automation and scaling up matters.
From building blocks of a SaaS oriented company to experience-backed help with decision making on product direction.

Achievements

Scaled up the SaaS company from 50 to over 2000 paying companies in 4 years, IPO-pending

Delivered market-ready SaaS product in 1.5 months, generates revenue since then

Optimized EliteCompetitions website to handle 30'000 request/min during UK's Dragon's Den TV broadcast on 2nd Dec 2018

Experience

Heraldbee

Dec 2018 - Nov 2019

Team leading, later, team building for a SaaS startup to drive sales for small to medium e–commerce shops such as Shopify or WooCommerce.

TimeCamp

Sep 2014 – Oct 2018

I scaled the company SaaS wise and technology–wise from 50 paying companies to over 2000 in 4 years. I took major part in team assembly, training and nurturing. At peak, I was managing 2 SCRUM teams of 6 people each. TimeCamp went through major reorganization due to my input. The company is going to IPO in 2019. Tech: PHP, CodeIgniter, MySQL, Angular 1, nginx, docker and others

HeySpace

R&D project in TimeCamp

I am the inventor behind the idea of combining Trello and Slack. I Assembled the team and delivered the project within 2 months. It Has 200 daily online users at peak and is steadily rising. Tech: React, Redux, Node, docker and others

TimeCamp 3

failed rewrite of TimeCamp to highly scalable architecture

The project failed because of constant requirement changes, inflated scalability requirements and lack of proper project management. I learned on what not to do when rewriting large codebases. The project also showed me how poor management may lead to never–ending development and “CV–building”. Tech: NoSQL, Couchbase, Sync Gateway, PouchDb, Blip, PHP, docker–swarm

Skills

Solid

JavaScript for server and for web
React with all the tooling around it
WebAPIs
SOLID design principles
functional programming (FP)
reactive functional programming (RFP)

Proficient

Relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
NO-SQL databases (PouchDb, CouchBase)

Tools

Mac OS X

JavaScript

VS Code