Work With Me
Is Your Team Moving Too Slow?
You’re shipping features, but:
- Technical debt is slowing every sprint
- Your architecture can’t keep up with product demands
- The team lacks senior oversight for critical decisions
- Velocity is dropping despite hiring more engineers
I help engineering leaders ship faster, eliminate bottlenecks, and scale with confidence—without the 6-month ramp-up of a full-time hire.
🎯 Typical results: 20-40% velocity improvement within the first quarter.
30 minutes · No obligation · Response within 24 hours

Krzysztof Zabłocki
20+ years building software, leading engineering teams at The New York Times and The Browser Company. Creator of open-source tools used by 80,000+ teams including Apple, Airbnb, and Bumble.
2× Emmy Award Winner · 70+ Conference Talks · Apple Design Award Nomination
I had the pleasure of working with Krzysztof when he joined us as an expert consultant to help refactor our iOS app's architecture. He quickly identified key opportunities to abstract and modernize our data layer, and the improvements in performance and reliability have been dramatic.
What stood out most was how fast, detailed, and efficient he was in his work, able to dive into complex, messy systems and emerge with elegant, practical solutions. His contributions put us in a much stronger position going forward, and I'm very grateful for the impact he had on our product and team.
I would highly recommend Krzysztof to anyone who needs deep technical iOS expertise combined with speed and precision.
Two Ways to Work Together
Choose the engagement model that fits your needs. Both start with a free strategy call to align on goals.
Advisory Partnership
Ongoing technical leadership without the commitment of a full-time hire. Perfect for teams that need senior oversight on architecture, code quality, and technical direction.
What You Get
- ✓Complete workflow & architecture audit (first month)
- ✓Weekly code & architecture reviews
- ✓Technical mentorship for your team
- ✓Ad-hoc consulting via Slack/calls
- ✓Custom workshops as needed
Monthly retainer · 3-month minimum
Delivery Partnership
Hands-on execution for critical projects. I architect, build, and ship features while training your team on best practices. Perfect for time-sensitive initiatives.
What You Get
- ✓Direct contribution to your codebase
- ✓Architecture design & implementation
- ✓Developer tooling & automation
- ✓Knowledge transfer & documentation
- ✓Team training on what’s built
Project-based or time-boxed · Flexible terms
Why Work With Me?
Proven Impact
Created open-source tools like Sourcery (used by 80,000+ teams), won 2 Emmy awards, and Apple Design Award nomination. I ship results, not just advice.
Business-Focused
I optimize for velocity and business value, not perfection. Pragmatic solutions that help you ship faster and reduce technical burden.
Full-Stack Expertise
From graphics programming to developer tooling to team leadership. Deep technical expertise across the entire software development lifecycle.
Team Multiplier
I focus on making your entire team more productive through better architecture, automation, and knowledge sharing. Not just individual contributions.
Testimonials
I had the pleasure of participating in technical and mentoring sessions led by Krzysztof, focused on iOS and career advancement. Thanks to these sessions, I significantly improved my technical knowledge and soft skills.
Krzysztof conveys knowledge excellently, combining theory with practical examples, which allows for quick and effective application of new skills in daily work. His mentoring approach is unique – tailored to individual needs, enabling each participant to achieve maximum growth.
I wholeheartedly recommend working with Krzysztof to anyone looking to advance their career.
I highly recommend Krzysztof's training and workshops. Krzysztof came to our offices to present a comprehensive and compelling workshop to our team of 30 iOS developers. Covering topics from architecture, to testing, to best practices.
His communication style is clear and engaging, and his content and approach highlights pragmatism over doctrine.
Our developers left inspired and with actionable improvements to their ways of working, and approaches to long standing issues.
Krzysztof is the fastest developer I've worked with. He is also a great builder of tools and systems that turn the right path into the easy path. This means that other developers on his team make fewer mistakes and spend less time reinventing the wheel because Krzysztof has already invented it.
Krzysztof is pragmatic and open-minded when it comes to solving problems, and is always open to hearing other viewpoints.
I've had the pleasure of working with Krzysztof for the last six years, as a peer and also his manager. In that time, I have found him to not only be an exceptional technologist, but also an innovative problem solver, strong leader and just a good human committed to excellence.
Krzysztof joined the Times at the beginning of a complete rewrite of the Newsreader iOS app. He played an essential architectural role in this process and pushed the team to move to more modern design patterns and best practices. One of the most successful changes Krzysztof introduced was a move to functional reactive programming, which was just coming into its own in the mobile community. As part of this work, in order to avoid the heavy dependencies that occupied the FRP space at that time, Krzysztof created a lightweight in-house observable library that is still in use today. Similarly, recognizing the sheer volume of boilerplate code that reduced developer productivity, he came up with Sourcery, a powerful code generation library that has since become one of the most popular tools in all of iOS.
Sourcery's utility and success is a testament to Krzysztof's passion for improving developer productivity. He gravitates towards building solutions that reduce the amount of friction a developer experiences in their day-to-day work, whether that's through building tools to help engineers develop, debug and test new features or by relieving the tiny pinpoints that invisibly add up to days and days of lost productivity over time.
He's also just insanely fast at his work. One of the biggest challenges you'll find in working with Krzysztof is ensuring he has enough to work on. He is equally as likely to pick up small tickets in the backlog as he is to research new technical solutions that will help our team's long term strategy.
As strong of a technologist as he is and with as much confidence as he has with his work, you might be surprised to learn how committed Krzysztof is to seeking out feedback and self-improvement. Where I've seen him grow the most in our time together is as a leader. In the early days, he was very involved in every technical decision, large and small. While guiding the team towards important outcomes, he began to recognize that to truly scale his impact, he needed to take a step back and empower others to learn and grow. He now gives input and feedback when needed, but is not overbearing. It has been an important shift, not only in his own growth, but in that of the team. With an engineer as esteemed as Krzysztof, it would be easy to imagine an organization where engineers just follow his lead or deferring to him for important decisions; but I have witnessed the opposite. I feel confident in saying the engineers he works with have learned and grown tremendously during their time working with him.
I cannot recommend Krzysztof highly enough. He will bring a tremendous amount of value to your organization if you're luck enough to have him on board.
Krzysztof is one of the most effective and thoughtful engineers I've ever had the please of working with. When we decided to launch a new project, I knew the first engineer to join was critical. I needed someone who was productive and efficient, but not at the expense of making sound architectural decisions. We needed a foundation we could build on for the future while also moving at a startup pace. Krzysztof delivered on all fronts.
He was able to deliver value very quickly, building features that we didn't even know were feasible at a surprising pace. He did this while maintaining a collaborative and open-minded approach that encouraged discussion. He is genuinely invested in the success of his teammates and I would be thrilled to work with him again in the future.
Krzysztof is an amazing engineer, who consistently delivered high quality functionality. He's insightful, well-rounded, and is able to operate with a product mindset, always keeping the end-user experience in mind.
I would recommend Krzysztof very highly, as he's a solid expert, and was a pleasure to have on our team!
Krzysztof is a brilliant programmer having a natural talent for solving complex problems in a very efficient and elegant way. Anyone wanting to employ him should do so while he's still available to hire and not working for his own business! :-)
Krzys is the type of engineering mind that makes you wonder how someone can be that good. Even though we used an iOS framework he hadn't worked with before, he got up to speed incredibly quickly, and produced some of the best work I've seen on mobile so far.
Despite being halfway across the world, he made himself super available to our team. Also doesn't hurt that he's a pleasure to talk to.