Wojtek Poltorak Email & Phone Number

Barcelona, Ct, Es

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

I oversee agile software engineering teams to deliver innovative, user-focused solutions across a variety of impactful projects, including:✅ Vector/RAG search and AI-based assistant integrations with online stores✅ An assistant with a speech-to-text feature for visually impaired visitors of mir.org✅ An Adobe Commerce store at yalehome.com.✅ A portal for UK Ride2Work scheme management at Evans Cycles.✅ Jira Plugin for subtask management.✅ Support & service desk for joules.com.What sets me apart:✅ Building trust-driven customer relationships to align goals and deliver results.✅ Enabling engineering teams to excel by fostering collaboration and removing roadblocks.✅ Leading mentorship, goal-setting, and performance reviews to cultivate growth.✅ Managing recruitment and onboarding to assemble and nurture top talent.

Wroclaw, Lower Silesian District, Poland

I led a software development centre of 60+ IT engineers, driving strategic initiatives and creating an environment of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. My key focus areas included:Software Development & Management✅ Directed cross-functional engineering teams to build a platform-agnostic SaaS tool for managing 3D product models, enabling seamless augmented reality integration for online stores.✅ Secured and onboarded early customers, including Monc, demonstrating the product’s commercial value.✅ Established partnerships with external providers to deliver comprehensive, end-to-end service offerings.Leadership✅ Promoted a culture of open communication, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement, encouraging innovation beyond the eCommerce domain.✅ Translated the company’s vision into actionable business strategies, aligning engineering goals with organizational objectives.✅ Scaled the team from 30 to 100 members while maintaining an attrition rate below 5% for two consecutive years.✅ Created a positive work environment based on trust, transparency, and psychological safety, empowering team members to excel.Business Administration✅ Partnered with legal, HR, payroll, and accounting teams to optimize the development centre’s operations.✅ Secured government COVID relief funding, ensuring business continuity during challenging times.✅ Reduced operational costs by renegotiating office rent (-30%) and subleasing 33% of office space during lockdowns.✅ Coordinated R&D tax relief applications in Poland and the UK, successfully obtaining benefits✅ Automated business processes, improving data security and consistency while reducing repetitive tasks by 60%.

Wrocław Area, Poland

Supported and mentored teams of developers, improving software development processes and supporting eCommerce projects based on SAP Commerce. Took care of three aspects of software engineering:People✅ Ensured that the right people with the right skill set and culture fit were on board, that they had no impediments in delivering values to our business partners, and that they felt important in the organisation:✅ Designed and documented technical onboarding plans.✅ Conducted several dozen technical recruitment interviews for developers, testers and analysts with various seniority.✅ Created a summer internship programme and launched its multiple editions for students from local universities.✅ Built a network of contacts to leverage off-project talent specialists. Processes✅ Implemented an automated release version management in Jira and Jenkins.✅ Created a code review process based on feature branch development.✅ Introduced Feature Flag releasing.✅ Designed an automated Jira subtask status transitioning.Projects✅ Collaborated with various stakeholders to support project requirements and to build self-sustainable scrum teams. ✅ Took part in SAP Commerce implementation.✅ Organised successful internal projects for talent pool members.

Wroclaw, Lower Silesian District, Poland

Led and supported a team of software engineers in the development of Java/Spring-based applications for online booking, tracking and management of global shipments. Provided consultancy service to 3rd parties. ✅ Coordinated work and delivered fixes to problems with a multithreaded environment for an interactive healthcare platform that connects patients with chronic conditions to their healthcare providers.

Wroclaw, Lower Silesian District, Poland

I developed an application for global delivery management & tracking.

London, United Kingdom

I was a key participant in several projects for a leading provider of information and services to transport users and the wider UK public. My responsibilities focused on designing and implementing software for interactive touch-screen kiosks as well as mobile and web applications including journey planning, real-time travel alerts and disruption updates.Work at Kizoom was my very first encounter with a real Scrum process.✅ Pioneered integration between Spring Framework and GWT.✅ Introduced automated end-to-end Selenium testing.✅ Restructured testing framework to adopt the Test Pyramid approach. Technologies:Java EE, Spring Web MVC, GWT, Ajax, JSP, JSON, XML

Wrocław Area, Poland

I developed an IDE that was used to design DTMF flows and rating logics for T-Mobiles' IN@vantage platform. Project used advanced Swing toolkit functionalities and had very strong requirements for business logic quality and backward compatibility. IDE supported plug-in architecture and domain specific language interpretation. ✅ Designed a recursive algorithm to analyse the consistency of logic flows. ✅ Extended Java Swing library to enable text selection feature in any Swing component. ✅ Adopted unit testing in the project. ✅ Created Eclipse IDE plugin to automate releasing.Technologies:Java (advanced Swing, SWT), Eclipse RCP, XML, Ant, ClearCase

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

The Faculty of Computer Science and Management Speciality: Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence, Internet Technologies, Databases

Postgraduate Studies, Team Leadership