About
T. Zwolak
Full Stack Engineer. Based somewhere with good coffee.
I'm a full stack engineer with about a decade of experience across startups and larger product orgs. I mostly work in TypeScript, Go, and whatever the backend needs that week. I've shipped consumer products, internal tooling, and a few things that quietly run millions of queries a day.
I started writing here because I kept explaining the same ideas to people in Slack. Now the ideas live somewhere I can link to them.
The personal posts are less polished. That's intentional. Some things only make sense in retrospect, and I'd rather write them while they're happening than wait until I have a clean narrative.
Currently working with
What I'm doing now
- Building a small internal analytics tool at work — SQLite-backed, surprisingly fast.
- Reading A Pattern Language and thinking about why software rarely has that quality.
- Running a lot. Not competitively. Just to think.
- Learning Polish. Very slowly.
Get in touch
I'm not on social media much. Email is the best way to reach me.