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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Managing a team and owning one of the AWS services focused on providing the best developer experience possible. Responsibilities include full responsibility for the team, delivery of services, and relation with one of AWS's largest customers.

Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland

Local Java User Group leader since 2013. I've seen the group grow from 350 to over 2000 members.During that time (except COVID period) the group was able to organize meetups on a monthly basis, establish a sponsorship model, cooperate with other groups and communities, cooperate with commercial events and organizations on event promotions, co-organize a few events and conferences, bring top world speakers as well as promote the local talent and ideas.The group is not limiting itself to just JVM world and promotes the best practices, architecture patterns as well as other technology and disciples.

Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland

In this role, I've been fully responsible for the management and growth of a strategic division within Epam.The challenges included: building leadership team, hyper-scaling growth of the group, introducing Epams' best practices, building relations with senior stakeholders, aligning with the market trends, company goals, and other Practice units (e.g. Data, Digital).

Gdańsk Area, Poland

In this role, I've been fully responsible for one of the key customer engagements. My role was evolving, transitioning from hands-on delivery in collaboration with customer Product Managers, to coordination of several delivery streams and ensuring project governance. Throughout, I collaborated closely with the customer C-level executives to align with their goals.The engagement started in a single location with 5 engineers and expanded within 2 years into over 100 FTE across multiple locations (teams delivering from Poland, Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Mexico, and other locations).Delivery Management related challenges included among others: building and developing customer relations, organization of delivery governance, building relationships with the customer stakeholders, building Epam delivery teams (defining requirements, hiring, onboarding, succession planning), supporting team agile processes, escalation management, reporting on the delivery progress.Deliverables included: refactoring of legacy applications, cloud transition, agile transformation, the introduction of a DevOps mindset, portfolio governance organization, and development of new applications and services.Beyond the account-related responsibilities, I actively engaged in global processes for title promotions of other Delivery Managers, facilitated the implementation of best practices at the Gdansk location, and provided support to Epam's Delivery organization in Poland.

Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland

In the Engineering management role, I contributed to Epam’s growth, as a part of the Gdansk office,then the Polish organization, and later the CEE Regional Management group. I had under my supervision a group of over 60 people, for which I was fully responsible for hiring, seamless onboarding, compensation structure, and performance management.Some of the initiatives I lead included: building technical interviewing capabilities & processes, implementing internal Academy Programs, Gdansk Innovations Lab (R&D program), representing the Delivery, and collaborating with Marketing on external campaigns and events.

Gdańsk Area, Poland

I joined DC during it transformation from a Service company to a Software House/DigitalTransformation Agency. I’ve been responsible for leading initiatives and building capabilities relatedmainly to JVM technologies. That included responsibility for a few of the key accounts as well as thetechnical part of the hiring process and building interns education program (processes from hiring tograduation as well as all of the content creation and training execution).Projects, customers, and technologies ranged across domains from e-commerce modernization to cutting-edge R&D solutions for the energy sector.Keywords: Java, Architecture, Lucene, Agile, Spring, Hibernate, OSGi, TDD, Team leading, Javascript

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Development and maintenance of ProQuest flagship product. Working on a team with full SDLC responsibility of a product module.Technology stack included (buzzwords): Agile teams (Scrum like), Tapestry 5, Java, distributed team, unit testingI did not extend the contract, due to private reasons and need to get back to Poland.

Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland

I started my career at ZenSar as one of the 23 interns, that was given an opportunity to go to the company HQ in Pune, India, where we have been on-boarded with the corporate standards and prepared to start a new site back in Gdansk. Poland.

Internship in Zensar Technologies HQ (Pune, India) including extensive training from technologies such as: Java SE, J2EE, UML, SQL, XML, Project Management, Software Quality as well as an introduction to corporate culture, values, goals, and framework of work

Master, It & Econometry

Bachelor, It And Economics

Activities and Societies: Unoficial member of science club 'Kolor'- .net group establish on Gdańsk University