# Kris Krolak

> Software engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kris

Currently open to fully remote, part-time and contracting opportunities.

A full-stack developer with experience in front-end development (Typescript, React, Electron, Tauri) of complex applications (a live transcription system, a code review system, a cloud system interface), backend systems (serving 1k+ qps, hundreds of contributors and thousands of users), microservices (code analyzers, storage systems).

Fluent in Typescript, Javascript, Rust.
Solid in Python, Java, C++.

Engineering manager, tech lead.

I learn quickly anything that I need to know in order to get the job done.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Distill
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
* Designing and implementing performant, reliable frontend solutions.
* Leveraging large language models (LLMs) to accelerate development, from prototyping to production-ready code.
* Reviewing, refining, and optimizing AI-generated code to ensure maintainability and scalability.
Debugging and resolving complex issues to improve product stability and user experience.
* Collaborating with the team to design technical approaches that balance speed of iteration with long-term quality.

### Tech Lead @ Ava
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Remote
Maintained and improved a React app and cross-platform desktop app (Mac, Windows and Linux) helping the Deaf people interact with online meetings, videos and events. 

* Improving performance and reliability of the service. Reduced loading time of critical paths in the app by 5-10x.
* Managing feature work and product improvements while collaborating with designers, product managers.
* Mentoring and supporting junior engineers
* Refactors and tech debt payback to increase developer velocity
* Desktop app rewrite from Electron to Tauri to reduce resource use by the desktop app by 10x.

### Founding Engineer @ CoGrader
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Built the first version of the product from prototype to first paying customers and hundreds of weekly users.

Deployed and maintained a React app, with Node.js backend managing the database and connection to LLMs, set up testing infrastructure, automatic deployments, code review practices, monitoring. Onboarded new engineers.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
Scalability and Platform for Google Cloud Console
(February 2016 - May 2017)
 * Maintaining releases of Google Cloud Console with hundreds of contributors and daily contributions.
 * Implementing necessary changes to the infrastructure to support scaling with respect to users as well as code contributors.
 * Create and use tools for seamless migration of different underlying technologies without hindering productivity of developers or end users.
 * Create and improve processes for improving reliability of Google Cloud Console during its rapid feature expansion.
 * On-call rotation.
Languages used: Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript.

Google Static Analysis (Tricorder)
(May 2017 - January 2019)
 * Maintaining and improving Google Static Analysis (Tricorder) running hundreds of code analyzers over every change proposed to the Google code base (~400k requests per day).
 * Improving reliability of the service.
 * Improving the internal storage system with better metrics allowing more precise understanding of its usage.
 * Participating in the on-call rotation.
Languages used: Go, Java, Python.

Google Code Review
(May 2018 - January 2019)
 * Participated in a full rewrite of the internal code review system to Angular and TypeScript.
 * Built the new system from the ground up keeping old requirements and improving the architecture.
 * Developed new practices for usage of ngrx, rxjs, angular and typescript within Google.
Languages used: TypeScript, JavaScript, Java.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Kraków Area, Poland
Google Cloud Console
 * Front-end features and improved quality for Google Cloud within Google Cloud Console.
 * Improved Google Cloud Console infrastructure as it grew from tens of contributors to hundreds.
 * Onboarded engineers to the team and helped the team grow.
 * Helped define best practices to maintain good code quality.
Languages used: Java, JavaScript.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
Google Ads Quality
 * Helped improve the system assessing quality of clicks on ads within Google.
 * Reworked the visualization of the results to a new framework to make it more future-proof
Languages used: Go, JavaScript.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
Google Internal Q&A System
 * Built the first UI for the internal Q&A system.
 * Prototyped features for the newly developed Q&A system.
Lanauges used: AngularJS, Javascript, Python


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Warsaw
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kris-krolak

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Source: https://flows.cv/kris
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kris/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-20