>_ whoami

PATRYK
RABA

Engineer · Builder · Leader

15 years building & assuring quality of software.
Based in Gdansk, Poland.

Patryk Raba

>_About

Flexible, self-driven engineering leader and test engineer. BA in Informatics, pursuing a Masters in Psychology at SWPS. Known as “PaaS - Patryk as a Service.”

15 years building and breaking software across AI, pharma, health tech, consumer electronics, gaming, and XR. From crowdtesting 300 products at Applause to shipping agentic AI at enterprise scale - I thrive on making complex systems approachable and efficient.

Conference speaker at Agile Testing Days, TestWarez, Conselenium, and Test:Fest. Outside work, I run Poland’s largest Minecraft community and ship side projects ranging from brain wave visualizers to spatial computing apps.

Certifications

  • Coachwise Coaching Essentials
  • ISTQB Agile Tester
  • ISTQB Foundation Level
  • ECDL Expert Certificate

Recognition

  • EU Critical Infrastructure Hackathon - Honorable Mention
  • uTest - Tester of the Year 2014

>_Experience

Companies

15 years combined experience in tech as an engineer.

Full-time

MOSTLY AI

Head of QA

Defined QA strategy & multi-quarter roadmap. Built Agentic AI capabilities for automated demo builders and Playwright/Jira integration. Scaled enterprise-grade synthetic-data testing.

Bragi

Head of QA/Release

Led QA team (manual & automation) and release processes. Oversaw 10 internal members and 100+ external QA consultants across 12 parallel projects. Product owner of Remote Device Lab.

Welltok

Lead Quality Engineer

QA strategy for Data Scrum team in Big Data/AI environment. Acquired by Virgin Pulse / Personify Health. Stack: Java, Kubernetes, Airflow, Python, Snowflake, AWS, Docker.

Roche

SQA Tester

Pharma QA. Test execution, bug reproduction, test data generation with VBS scripts. GxP for IT Professionals certified. Tools: HP ALM, SAP.

Nozbe

QA Lead

Tested time management apps across iOS, Android, WP, Web, and desktop. Manual testing, test automation, and comprehensive test case creation using Agile/Scrum.

Playsoft

QA Engineer

Functional & performance testing of mobile and web apps. API testing via Postman. Found 500+ bugs. NoSQL databases.

Consulting & Part-time

Applause

QA Project Manager

300 products, 5,000 test cycles, 8,000 bugs reported. Set up tests for 30+ companies (many Fortune 500). Websites, gambling, gaming, AI, VR/AR, crypto. Test cycles up to 1,000 testers.

Confidential

CTO

Vision Pro spatial streaming startup. First-ever live stream from Apple Vision Pro. Led technical architecture for live 3D/180°/360° video delivery on Apple’s spatial computing platform. Built first prototype with zero prior Swift experience. Team invited to A16Z partner call. Multiple co-creators.

Sztuka Harmonii

Technical Advisor to my Wife

Wife’s psychotherapy practice. Built tooling, booking system, and growth infrastructure. Helped scale from ~25 to 420 clients/month in 12 months.

Wielki Dzien

Technical Advisor to my Wife

Wife’s wedding decoration business. Set up website, SEO, marketing automation. Scaled orders from 2-3 to 25 per season, including high-profile venues.

Software Dev Academy

QA Trainer

Conducted QA trainings to help people land their dream jobs. 100% of trainees found employment after sessions.

Minecraft.pl

Owner / Engineer

Poland’s largest Minecraft community. Owner, DevOps, plugin engineer. Up to 5 servers with 600+ concurrent players. Direct contact with Mojang. 12,000+ LOC plugin ecosystem.

Tech Stack

Languages

TypeScriptJavaPythonSwiftSQLBashVBS

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTailwind CSSReact NativeElectron

Backend & Data

Node.jsJavalintRPCDrizzle ORMAirflowRabbitMQ

Testing & QA

PlaywrightVitestPostmanHP ALMISTQBDevice Labs

Cloud & Infra

AWSDockerKubernetesLinuxVercelGitHub Actions

Databases

PostgreSQLSnowflakeCassandraDatabricksSQLiteMySQLNoSQL

Monitoring & CI

GrafanaSplunkSentryNew RelicCircleCISemaphore

Tools & APIs

GitBunGradleJIRAQaseClaude APITwilio

Industries

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AI & Synthetic Data

Enterprise synthetic data, AI-driven test automation, agentic AI tooling

🎧

Consumer Electronics / Audio

Bragi - smart headphones, wearable firmware QA, remote device lab with 80+ devices

🏥

Health & Big Data

Welltok / Virgin Pulse - employee wellness platforms, HIPAA-compliant, Kubernetes/Airflow/Snowflake stack

💊

Pharma

Roche - GxP-certified testing, HP ALM, SAP, regulatory compliance

🧪

Crowdtesting at Scale

Applause - 300 products, 5,000 test cycles, Fortune 500 clients, VR/AR, crypto, gambling

🎮

Gaming

minecraft.pl, Playsoft - server infrastructure, 600+ concurrent players, mobile game QA

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XR / Spatial Computing

First-ever live stream from Apple Vision Pro, Swift prototype from scratch, spatial video delivery

📚

EdTech & Training

Software Dev Academy - QA training with 100% job placement. Conference speaker at ATD, TestWarez, Conselenium

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Psychotherapy & HealthTech

Sztuka Harmonii - built practice tooling, 10x client growth. EEG Visualizer - brain wave visualization

>_Personal Projects

⛏️launched

MCPL-Core

Unified Minecraft plugin ecosystem - 12,000+ lines of Java

👓launched

Confidential

Vision Pro spatial streaming startup. First-ever live stream from Apple Vision Pro. Led technical architecture for live 3D/180°/360° video delivery on Apple’s spatial computing platform. Team invited to A16Z partner call. Multiple co-creators.

📋development

Lifecycle Tracker

Stage-gated product lifecycle management with wizard checklists

🧠development

PsychologNet

Professional network platform for psychologists

🎬ideation

HowTo-AI

AI-powered tutorial and how-to platform

💒ideation

Wielkidzien.pl

Easter traditions and celebrations across Poland

🛒validation

Czynnewniedziele.pl

Sunday trading schedule lookup for Poland