Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland
Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience scaling distributed teams and complex platforms across NAM, EMEA, and APAC. Combines hands-on technical depth with organizational leadership, delivering results through high-impact execution, team enablement, and continuous improvement. Broad experience with full software delivery cycle: engineering management, features discovery and planning, backend/frontend development, interfaces, integrations, databases, dev ops, leveraging LLMs for automating tasks, testing and much more. I am experienced with managing large cross-functional teams (15+) as well as smaller orgs through enabling other managers and tech leads. I have a strong background in Quality Engineering field - reducing waste, saving time and money, improving feedback loops, communication, processes and workflows. I am experienced in working remotely and organizing remote teams work as an Engineering Manager - implementing lean management practices and fostering async communication and hiring right talent. I am a very proactive and flexible person that likes to act independently and freely, focused on delivering value. Roles that I'm mostly interested in are in that order: Director of Engineering, Senior Engineering Manager, Continuous Improvement Manager, Tech Lead, Technical Program Manager, and Full Stack Developer. I'm also interested in Technical Cofounder or VP/CTO roles in startups. I'm open for part-time/freelance jobs, 100% remote. Note for recruiters: Please include an offer when sending the invitation so I'd be sure you have at least read this paragraph which is surprisingly skipped by 70% of recruiters. Include a company name and compensation details to save our time - FYI - I'm rejecting all empty invitations. Thank you.
Leading and scaling up a backend platform team working in application architecture & infrastructure scope, improving platform quality and development velocity, supporting all Rippling product teams as the core owner of Rippling monolith shared framework and libraries. Managing two squads of 16 engs in total through another EM and Tech Lead. Teams under my leadership delivered multiple platform initiatives: - fast and reliable local dev environments supporting 800+ engineers and migrating of costly and clunky cloud dev environments, saving $100k on infra costs and offloading entire team from full time support of previous solution - monolith architecture decoupling POC paving path for 80% memory and startup time saving in prod app deployments - core Python upgrades from 3.9 -> 3.12, requiring various migrations and handling dozens of forked libraries in 4m+ loc monolith - enhancements, and necessary KTLO for BE framework powering Rippling's monolith.
- Quality Engineering (not QA) - Process and workflow optimizations and improvements in fully remote environemnt - Full-stack development of automotive retail products - Crowdtesting QA platform management (Applause/Utest), improving testing results and cost #python #django #drf #postgres #jira #docker #vue