About
Adrian Cabala.
Remotion.
I'm a software engineer based in Cracow, Poland, with 19 years of experience building systems that work. Remotion is my brand — how I bring that experience to startups and teams who need senior-level architecture without the overhead of a large consultancy.
19 years of building things that matter
I started writing software professionally in 2007 — building booking systems, integrating with payment APIs, learning that the hard problems are never just technical. Over the years, I worked my way through PHP, Symfony, and Node.js, leading teams at Pracuj (Poland's largest job platform), building a video streaming platform for Norwegian TV at Schibsted, and taking a marketplace from PoC to MVP at Arlians in London.
At Exporo in Hamburg, I went deep into AWS and serverless — microservices, event-driven architecture, CDK, the whole stack. That's where I found my focus: designing systems that scale without becoming unmanageable. Not because serverless is trendy, but because for most startups, it's the most honest answer — pay for what you use, scale automatically, spend your engineering time on your product instead of your infrastructure.
More recently, at Moatable, I've been leading a team building AI-powered features with AWS Bedrock and Claude, introducing agentic development workflows that have measurably accelerated how the team ships. I use these tools daily — not the hype, but the practical reality of how AI is changing software development.
Throughout all of this, I've been building and shipping my own mobile apps under the Remotion brand. Twelve apps on the App Store and Google Play — real products, real users. It keeps me honest. There's no better teacher than shipping something yourself and maintaining it.
Remotion is how I package all of this. It's not an agency — it's me, my experience, and a network of trusted specialists I bring in when a project needs it.
What drives Remotion
Understanding over assumptions
I've learned the hard way that the most expensive mistakes happen when you skip the "why" and jump to the "how." Every project starts with questions.
Craft over speed
I'd rather ship something solid in week three than something fragile in week one. Good architecture saves months down the road.
Honesty over comfort
If your idea needs rethinking or your architecture has problems, I'll tell you directly. You're paying for my judgment, not my agreement.
Shipping over theorizing
I build my own apps, ship them to real stores, maintain them for real users. Theory is useful. Shipping is what counts.
Industries I've worked in
19 years across diverse domains
Let's connect
I'm always open to interesting conversations — whether about a project or just a technical challenge you're thinking through.