Experience

25 years. From a manufacturing floor in Krak贸w to central banks in Basel.

2023-2024

Bank for International Settlements, Basel

SRE / Cloud Automation Lead

Greenfield CI/CD architecture for FIS Front Arena trading platform. Nothing existed. I designed and built a PowerShell framework that automated the whole lifecycle: config, install, updates, secrets. Standard tools didn't work on their Windows stack, so I made my own. Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Python.

2022-2023

Google Switzerland, Z眉rich

Software Engineer / Cloud TAM

Migrated internal services from a deprecated platform. Each project was different. I had to understand the team's situation, read their code (Go, Java, Python, C++), redesign the migration, and hand it back so they could run it. The goal: make their life easier, not harder.

2022

Sygnum Bank, Z眉rich

Tech Lead / Deputy Head of SRE

Built the SRE team for Switzerland's first FINMA-regulated crypto bank. Multi-cloud: AWS, Azure, OpenShift. Managed external certified partners. Six months. Short, but I left a team and a platform that worked.

2020-2021

Roche, Basel

AWS Cloud Consultant / Team Lead

Led a team of six. We built an ML platform on Kubernetes and Kubeflow for medical research. The qualification process was slow, we made it 20x faster. AWS CDK in Python. Patient data compliance. Release management for med-tech.

2018-2020

Hilti, Liechtenstein

Senior DevOps Lead

Built the DevOps team from scratch. Switzerland and India. First automated production releases for a complex cloud-native platform. CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes. External security audits. SAFe and Scrum.

2017-2018

Scigility, Z眉rich

Senior Big Data DevOps

Big data platforms for Swiss enterprise. Cloudera, Hortonworks, AWS, Azure. I talked to clients, understood what they needed, proposed the architecture. Then built it.

2017

HID Global / Assa Abloy, Krak贸w

AWS Architect / Team Lead

Cloud migration from on-premise. Trained the team. Explained cloud to French management in business language.

2016

Grid Dynamics, Krak贸w

Big Data DevOps

In-memory computing on AWS. Apache Ignite, Cassandra. Ran a community of practice for DevOps.

2014-2015

Ericsson, Krak贸w

Solution Architect / SQL Server Expert

Database migration from Oracle to SQL Server. HA architecture. Internal expert for teams moving to the new platform.

2002-2014

WESEM Manufacturing, Krak贸w

CTO

12 years. Built the entire IT infrastructure for a manufacturing company. Three locations, HA network, VPN, servers, databases, backups. Downtime meant stopped production. This is where I learned what 'it has to work' really means.

1998-2002

Ganimedes

Linux/BSD Admin, Developer

Linux, OpenBSD, PHP, Perl. Webmail, auctions, CMS. The beginning.

Education

  • MBA, Business and Entrepreneurship, 艁azarski University, Warsaw (2011-2013)
  • BSc, Computer Systems, AGH University, Krak贸w (2006-2010)
  • Cloudera CCA Admin, ITIL, T脺V Nord Project Management, Google Kubernetes Engine (Coursera 2025)

Languages

  • Polish: native
  • English: fluent
  • German: B1, daily lessons
  • Spanish: conversational

Stack

AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, Docker, ArgoCD, Istio, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Kafka, Linux, Windows Server

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