Location
PolandRate
Years of experience
16+About
I am an experienced IT Director and technology strategist with over 22 years of experience in software development and IT leadership roles, currently leading the Data & Artificial Intelligence portfolio at *um (The Unbelievable Machine Company) in Berlin. My expertise spans across creating technology and data strategies, with a strong focus on AI/ML, cloud data platforms, data lakes, advanced analytics, and driving innovation projects in IoT and cloud environments. Over the past decade, I have held senior leadership positions, managing complex projects and teams in dynamic settings, including my role as Head Officer at Intive, where I was instrumental in developing technology solutions accelerators and leading technical advisory services. My career trajectory demonstrates a consistent track record in fostering engineering excellence, offering development, and managing high-performing distributed teams across Poland and Germany. I have been responsible for several transformative initiatives, including cloud migrations, introducing new tech governance models, and pioneering a guilds culture to enhance productivity and innovation. My technical proficiencies encompass a range of platforms and practices such as DevOps, multi-cloud architectures, and AI-driven data science applications, underpinned by a deep understanding of Agile methodologies and Management 3.0. Equipped with a solid educational background in Automatics & Robotics, I am passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex business challenges, delivering value-driven innovations and leading teams towards achieving exceptional results.Tech Stack
Management, Azure, Backend, BigQuery, FrontendExperience
- Technology and Data Strategy Development: Formulate comprehensive technology and data strategies to align with organizational goals, focusing on innovation and efficiency in cloud data platforms, data lakes, advanced analytics, AI/ML, and data science.
- Leadership of Data & AI Portfolio: Oversee the Data and Artificial Intelligence portfolio, ensuring that projects and initiatives such as IoT and cloud innovations are executed effectively and contribute to business growth.
- Driving Innovation Projects: Spearhead innovation projects, applying cutting-edge technologies to create solutions that enhance business operations and customer engagement.
- Partnership Management: Manage and cultivate strategic partnerships with major technology providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Oracle, leveraging these relationships to gain access to new technologies and collaborative opportunities.
- Team Management and Mentoring: Lead and mentor a team of developers and data scientists, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. Responsible for team dynamics, productivity, and professional development.
- R&D Leadership and Solution Acceleration: Guide the research and development team, focusing on developing solution accelerators particularly in areas such as AI/ML, Edge AI, IoT, Big Data, and Cloud, enhancing the company's competitive edge in the market.
- Speaking and Thought Leadership: Act as a speaker and thought leader at significant industry events, such as Oracle Open World, sharing insights and promoting the company’s technological advancements and expertise.
Employment history
-Developing and executing comprehensive technology and data strategies to support the company’s goals and enhance its technological capabilities.
-Head of Data & Artificial Intelligence portfolio (Cloud Data Platforms, Data Lakes, Advanced Analytics, AI/ML, Data Science, MLOps).
-Driving innovation projects (IoT, AI, Cloud).
-Spearheading innovation projects involving IoT, AI, and Cloud technologies to maintain a competitive edge and leverage cutting-edge advancements.
-Building and maintaining an agile and secure backend infrastructure using Node.js, ensuring the system can handle high volumes of requests without compromising performance.
-Responsible for technology strategy of the company.
-Align technology decisions with the organization’s goals.
-Responsible for R&D team and projects, developing solution accelerators (with the focus on AI/ML, Edge AI, IoT, Big Data, Cloud).
-Leading technical advisory services.
-Partnership Management (e.g. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle).
-Speaker on events (e.g. Oracle Open World in San Francisco).
-Head of Software Services organization: Big Data, Data Science, AI/ML, Computer Vision, Cognitive, Cloud Computing (Azure, AWS), cloudnative and multi-cloud architectures (micro-services, serverless, containers).
-Responsible for Offering Development, Engineering Excellence (guidelines, processes, tools, competences), Team Management of distributed teams in Poland and Germany.
-Speaker on tech events.
-Responsible for leading technology management of the company.
-Responsible for technology strategy and roadmap, technology governance, establishing and maintaining technology partner programs (AWS, Azure).
-Introduced a guilds culture and other Management 3.0 concepts.
-Head of Software Services organization.
-Building and running Development Centre in Poznan city (including Site Management).
-Responsible for business, technology, delivery, team and project management.
-Engineering Excellence in Data, Web, Cloud, Mobile, DevOps
-CTO and Head of Software Engineering organization in a SaaS product company – CRM/SFA product, eCommerce, data-driven, Mobile & Cloud products in SaaS model.
-Responsible for Development and Operations (Data Center & Cloud), Team & Project Management, Agile / Scrum,Technology Product Roadmap, new products development with Design Thinking.
-Cloud migration to the public cloud.
-Head of Program Delivery.
-Managing software development teams, projects and programs.
-The biggest challenge was to ramp-up ~140 team members onsite agile organization in 9 months, within ~300 team members program with agile scalability in distributed teams (several
international nearshore and offshore sites).
-Developing Java/JEE large scale projects.
-Leading Software Services organization in a Center of Excellence manner.
-Telecommunication domain (OSS/BSS).
-Responsible for Quality
-Assurance, IT & Dev projects, processes, methods, tools and governance models, team management, Project and program management, engineering excellence (standardization).
-Developing Quality Assurance and System Tests offerings. Responsible for test lab data center.
-Telecommunication domain (OSS/BSS). C++, Java, C#, Scripting programming.
-Software development of backends for large distributed systems, high availability and resilience, test automation of protocol compliance, performance tuning.
Education history
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Master of Science in Information Technology