Tomasz Łakomy

Co-Founder

Poznań, Wielkopolskie, Poland13 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

AWS Hero recognized for contributions to the community.
Instructor with over 200 lessons published on egghead.io.
Co-founder of Cloudash, enhancing serverless application troubleshooting.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and B2C focused software engineer with expertise in serverless technologies.

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AngularJSBackbone.jsBoost C++C++CSSExpressFluxGitGitHubGruntJSHTMLHTML5JIRAJavaScriptLinux

About

Depending on the time of the day, I'm wearing one of those hats: - Member of Technical Staff @ Runway - AWS Hero: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/tomasz-lakomy/ - Head of React at https://cloudash.dev - egghead.io instructor with over 200 lessons published (including a full "Build an App with the AWS Cloud Development Kit" course - https://egghead.io/courses/full-stack-typescript-with-aws-cloud-development-kit-v2-2daa5cf1) and "Build a GraphQL API with AWS CDK and AppSync" (https://egghead.io/courses/build-a-graphql-api-with-aws-cdk-and-appsync-7d2a5fbc) - International tech speaker - 2x AWS Certified (AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate and AWS Certified Developer: Associate) - Writer for cult.honeypot.io, as well as his blog https://tlakomy.com & dev.to - Huge fan of learning & teaching (preferably both at the same time) - Passionate about technologies that make simple things simple - e.g. React & serverless Some of my writing: - https://dev.to/tlakomy/7-years-as-a-developer-lessons-learned-29ic - https://cloudash.dev/blog/best-practices-for-optimizing-lambda-functions - https://cloudash.dev/blog/aws-multi-account-benefits And here you can hear more about my experiences and thoughts on building software: https://reactpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/97

Experience

Runway

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, United States · Remote

Leading Trust and Safety Engineering efforts at Runway.

Member of Technical Staff

Feb 2024 – Jan 2025 · 11 mos · New York, United States · Remote

Advancing creativity with artificial intelligence. Join us: https://runwayml.com/careers

Stealth startup

Senior Software Engineer Consulting 🤫

Nov 2023 – Feb 2024 · 3 mos · Remote

Stedi

2 roles

Engineering Team Lead

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

As an Engineering Team Lead I was responsible for leading a team of up to 8 ridiculously talented engineers and together we owned the vast majority of frontend codebase and infrastructure at Stedi, in addition to multiple backend services across a number of AWS accounts.

Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

As a Software Engineer I was responsible for development of a number of Stedi products (including Mappings, see https://www.stedi.com/blog/complex-data-transformations-made-simple-with-mappings), across the entire stack: frontend, backend, infrastructure and security.
No servers were harmed during my time as a software engineer - all products were built using serverless technologies on top of AWS, written in TypeScript and deployed with CDK to multiple AWS regions.

Cloudash

Co-Founder

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

I am a co-founder of Cloudash, a desktop application for troubleshooting serverless applications. Cloudash provides clear access to CloudWatch logs and metrics, to help you make quicker decisions.
We also run a Cloudash blog, and this is where my technical writing lives these days.

Egghead.io

Instructor

Oct 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

As an egghead.io instructor I've recorded two full courses and over a 170 lessons about all things web development: React, AWS, cypress, Svelte and more.

Olx group

Senior Frontend Engineer

Apr 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Poznań, Wielkopolskie, Poland

As a Senior Frontend Engineer I'm either involved or I'm leading multiple initiatives including (but not limited to!):
Building a Tinder-for-jobs OLX app from scratch (Stack: React/Go/AWS Lambda/DynamoDB/Cypress.io)
Kickstarting and leading a OLX Europe Frontend Guild
Leading a performance initiative that cut our homepage size by 50%
Building a testing culture & mindset at OLX
Passing AWS Certified exam(s) and sharing what I've learned with others
Leading and/or organising numerous Tech Exchange events, workshop, knowledge sharing sessions
Public speaking at international conferences

Egnyte

Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Mar 2018 · 8 mos

Working on the UI for the company's core product
Serving as a Scrum Master of the team
Speaking at international conferences about ReactVR/AR

Grand parade

Senior Software Developer

Jan 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Poznań, Wielkopolskie, Poland

Creating online casinos and betting systems based on React.js/Redux/Flux/Immutable.js frontend stack
Working directly with client's engineering teams
Responsible for choosing frontend technology stack for brand new projects
Speaking at conferences/meetups about React/ReactVR