Paweł Urbanek - Rails and PostgreSQL Performance Consultant
Full Stack web development consultant with over 10 years of experience. Founder of Abot for Slack. Specializing in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and website performance. Learning Rust. Experienced in building scalable APIs for startups and refactoring legacy codebases. Blogging about web development related topics since 2018; published 80+ posts and counting. After hours I train rock climbing to rest my wrists from the keyboard.
I'm an author of a guide to migrating Heroku PostgreSQL to AWS RDS eBook, rails-pg-extras, and mevlog-rs.
What My Clients Say
Paweł helped us develop the core of our software. He was leading the development of a high performing SAAS service that scaled. There were several areas that Paweł worked with: Database performance, Ruby code performance, and security at many technical levels (…) His ownership and dedication to his work inspired the rest of the team to perform and create high-quality software.
Working with Paweł was an enlightening experience. He took the time to go into every detail to optimize our application by helping us understand the bottlenecks, how to measure them and how to act pragmatically on them. After just a single day of work, his suggestions made our app 30% faster during peak time, making our customers extremely happy!
Our ROI from working with Paweł for just two weeks was almost immediate. We were able to reduce infrastructure costs by 25% while also decreasing load times, setup actionable performance monitoring, and put in place long-term plans for further improving performance.
I had a great experience working with Paweł. His work greatly improved our website and app's performance, which was expected. What was unexpected was that would be very proactive in pointing out topics that required attention that were outside the scope of our original agreement. Our systems that span Heroku and AWS are much more thoughtfully constructed now as a result of his work.
Paweł was knowledgable, efficient and fast at diagnosing the performance characteristics in our Rails application. He provided multiple solutions, in Ruby code and improved SQL, to help us squash our biggest performance issues.
We were fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Paweł. He was able to help us improve our response time by 50% and ensure that our backend could scale without adding more hardware. Paweł is very talented at this craft and brings a structured approach that we can now apply going forward. We highly recommend Paweł for any performance needs you have.
I reached out to Paweł because we had some pages that were loading very slow, and it was hurting us in Google's search results. Paweł was able to review our code and make changes to cut the page load speeds in half within a day.