Karol Słuszniak
CTO at Cloudless Studio
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolKarol Słuszniak is a pragmatic CTO and founder with 11+ years of experience building and scaling web products from the ground up, combining hands-on Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix and React expertise with product-minded technical leadership. He led major architecture and growth efforts at Fresha/Shedul—helping the product scale from a small team to a global SaaS with a $105M valuation—and now runs multiple ventures including Heyplay.io and Pubray while serving as Rey’s CTO. Karol is equally at home shipping backend architecture and crafting playful multiplayer browser games, reflecting a rare blend of infrastructure rigor and product-driven creativity. An active tech blogger and longtime open-web enthusiast, he often experiments with DevOps automation and game mechanics to make technology more approachable. Based in Warsaw, he brings entrepreneurial grit, a track record of introducing Elixir/Phoenix into Rails teams, and an appetite for turning ambitious ideas into polished, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at AGH University of Krakow
English, Polish
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Github Skills (74)
realtime10
testing10
sms10
code-analysis10
rigid-bodies10
command-line-tool10
javascript10
continuous-integration10
elixir10
physics10
api-server10
phoenix-framework10
actionmailer10
physics-engine10
canvas10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
freshaengineering/surgex
May 2017 - Jun 2019
[Library] Elixir utilities toolbelt - Helper modules, common patterns, shared Elixir code, development conveniences. | Elixir | Utilities
Contributions:223 commits, 20 PRs, 138 pushes in 2 years 1 month
elixirelixir-langelixir-phoenixnon-production
karolsluszniak/cloudless-box
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:71 commits, 91 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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