Experience
From electronics lab to cloud infrastructure — over a decade of hands-on engineering.
CaptivateIQ
2021 — PresentSenior SRE / Tech Lead
First SRE hire at a US-based, VC-backed startup. Led the migration from Heroku to AWS (ECS, Fargate, RDS, VPC) single-handedly in 4 months. Drove company-wide SLO adoption across all dev teams. Led the EU region deployment and played a key role in the AU region rollout. Day-to-day: PostgreSQL migrations, AWS infrastructure architecture, Terraform, Python automation, monitoring, and supporting engineering teams.
Makeitright
2018 — 2021Lead DevOps Engineer
Sole DevOps engineer, later leading a team of up to 4. Owned CI/CD (Jenkins), release pipelines, security, installers, and IaC (Terraform) for Powerfarm — an on-prem product deployed at banks and insurance companies. Represented the company as a technical specialist at client meetings and managed on-site deployments. Also worked on the SaaS rewrite (Powerfarm 2.0).
Samsung R&D Poland
2018 — 2018Junior DevOps Engineer
Python scripting and internal tooling for other development teams. Quickly outgrew the role — led the team technically despite the junior title.
Reef Technologies
2017 - 2018Junior Python Developer
Backend Python development, mostly open-source work (Backblaze B2). Sharpened core Python skills in a demanding environment.
Intel Technology Poland
2015 — 2017Intern → Software Engineer
Started as an intern after winning 2nd place at a Gdańsk University of Technology hackathon (Smart Traffic Lights). Worked on test automation and tooling around USB drivers, Simics, and audio drivers. Transitioned to full-time after completing engineering degree.
mPicoSys
2014 — 2015Engineering Intern
Student internship at a company building e-ink display devices. Firmware flashing, Python scripting for database analysis, and hardware testing in thermal chambers.
Education
Gdańsk University of Technology
2011 — 2015B.Eng. in Electronics & Telecommunications
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics. Department of Computer Electronic Systems.