Marek Solecki

Engineering manager at a mid-size SaaS company in Wroclaw, running a team of 12 across 3 microservices. Has onboarded 40+ junior engineers over the past 6 years and writes a Substack on developer experience practices that have actually worked. Maintains a personal wiki on code review culture that gets cited occasionally on Hacker News.

1 article by Marek Solecki.

• AI Codebase Understanding

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  Code Refactoring Techniques That Work in Real Codebases

  June 29, 2026

  Extract Method, branch-by-abstraction, strangler fig pattern: the refactoring techniques that reduce complexity in real codebases, measurable in hours not sentiment.