Krzysztof Zmudzinski — Director of Engineering

Engineering leader with 20 years of experience defining product and platform strategy across data protection, security, and content collaboration. Currently leading a 100-person global organization driving a $XXXM portfolio serving Fortune 500 and mid-market customers. Built a SaaS business from inception to $100M ARR and scaled high-performing teams across three regions. Aligns product, infrastructure, and GTM organizations around scalable cloud architectures and durable technical transformation, fostering execution velocity, engineering excellence, and senior talent development to sustain innovation at scale. Skills Leadership & Strategy: - Defining and executing engineering vision aligned with business and product strategy - Scaling and mentoring high-performing global engineering teams - Building strong partnerships across Product, GTM, and Customer Success to accelerate growth - Driving organizational design, transformation, and operational scalability - Managing budgets, investment trade-offs, and resource allocation for multi-year roadmaps Technology & Innovation: - Cloud-native architecture for SaaS and distributed systems - Highly available, resilient, and scalable infrastructure enabling petabyte-scale data processing - AI/ML applications in content classification, threat detection, and data governance - CI/CD, DevOps, and platform engineering strategy for rapid, reliable delivery Operational Excellence: - Engineering productivity and quality-driven culture through agile and lean practices - Risk management, incident response, and operational readiness at a global scale - Leading large-scale migrations, system integrations, and reliability improvements - Establishing metrics, OKRs, and accountability frameworks for continuous improvement

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with extensive experience in cloud-native architecture and team scaling.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 14 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Engineering Leadership
Cloud-native Architecture

Career Highlights

Led a 100-person global engineering organization.
Built a SaaS business from inception to $100M ARR.
Scaled engineering teams across three regions.

Work Experience

Cohesity

Director of Engineering (3 yrs 2 mos)

Egnyte

Senior Director Of Engineering (8 yrs)

Genesys

Engineering Manager (1 yr)

Staff Software Engineer (4 yrs)

Alcatel-Lucent

Software Engineer (3 yrs)

DomData

Software Engineer (1 yr)

Wikia

QA Engineer (1 yr)

Lucent Technologies

Software Engineer (0 mo)

Freelancer

Software Engineer (2 yrs)

Education

B.S. at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Electronic and Telecommunication at Uniwersytet Technologiczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana i Jędrzeja Śniadeckich w Bydgoszczy

Krzysztof Zmudzinski

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States14 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a 100-person global engineering organization.
Built a SaaS business from inception to $100M ARR.
Scaled engineering teams across three regions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with extensive experience in cloud-native architecture and team scaling.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipCloud-native Architecture

Other Skills

AgileAgile MethodologiesBig DataCC++Cloud ComputingComputer ScienceContinuous DeliveryContinuous IntegrationCross-functional Team LeadershipDatabasesDesign PatternsDevOpsDistributed SystemsEnterprise Software

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Experience

Cohesity

Director of Engineering

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Lead a 100-member global organization responsible for a $XXXM data protection portfolio spanning NAS (S3/NFS/SMB), cloud file and object storage, physical servers, and Microsoft databases.
Drive integration of Veritas NetBackup teams and technology into Cohesity’s DataProtect platform, defining a unified product and engineering roadmap.
Aligned engineering strategy and execution with the CEO’s goal of “no deal lost due to lack of workload support,” expanding coverage through new connectors for Azure SQL, Entra ID, Azure Blob, Azure Data Lake, and Nutanix Files.
Directed a 9-month, 30-engineer cross-org initiative to modernize the connector development framework and adopt Go as the standard implementation language, delivering the first connector and cutting development cycles from 12 to 3 months for all subsequent connectors.
Rebuilt management structure and integrated Veritas and Cohesity teams, establishing clear ownership and shared processes.
Hired 20+ engineers in under two months, strengthening technical capacity and accelerating progress on strategic projects across the Connectors organization.

Engineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsDatabasesCloud-native architecture

Egnyte

Senior Director Of Engineering

Jan 2015 – Jan 2023 · 8 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

Egnyte Protect / Secure & Govern, Content Lifecycle Management pillars of the Egnyte Platform
Built and launched Egnyte Protect v1, expanding Egnyte’s collaboration business into data security, governance, and compliance.
Aligned Product and GTM strategy to define and deliver the multi-year roadmap for Egnyte Protect / Secure & Govern.
Scaled the Secure & Govern suite from inception to a market-leading data security, governance, and lifecycle management solution serving 3,000+ customers, managing 30+ PB of data across 10B+ files, reaching $100M+ ARR.
Established a global engineering organization across the U.S., Poland, and India, scaling from 4 to 80+ engineers and achieving 65% 3+-year tenure and 90% intern-to-FTE conversion through career development and mentoring.
Egnyte Connect - Cloud & Web UI / Enterprise file sync & sharing
Led modernization of Egnyte’s web and backend platform within its private cloud environment, evolving legacy monolithic components into modular, API-based services that improved scalability, maintainability, and feature velocity.
Directed the delivery of a redesigned web UI rolled out to 15,000+ enterprise customers.
Reduced escalations by 75% through strategic investments in CI/CD automation, test coverage, and technical debt remediation.
Scaled the engineering team from 12 to 25 and restructured ownership boundaries to improve delivery velocity, quality, and alignment across Product, UX, and Support teams.
Egnyte Connect - Mobile / Enterprise file sync & sharing
Established mobile as a first-class experience within the Egnyte platform, aligning iOS & Android roadmaps with enterprise product strategy.
Cut release cadence from quarterly to monthly with weekly hotfixes.
Initiated and launched the iOS app rewrite effort, improving its App Store rating by 0.9 and cutting daily crashes by 90%.

Engineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsStart-upsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)JavaCloud-native architecture

Genesys

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr

Built and led a new 5-engineer team to integrate the SoundBite cloud engagement platform with the Genesys Voice Platform, extending Genesys’ SaaS capabilities and reducing VoIP infrastructure costs.
Designed and delivered a high-throughput in-memory caching service for compliance workloads, improving performance and reliability for large-scale outbound voice and text campaigns.

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 · 4 yrs

Provided technical leadership for the Intelligent Workload Distribution (iWD) product, architecting two major releases that unified routing and analytics across Genesys solutions.
Scaled the iWD engineering team from 3 to 10+ engineers through targeted hiring, mentoring, and process improvements that increased delivery velocity and code quality.
Designed and implemented an initial version of a service that sped up an ETL process of iWD historical usage data.
Co-created an initial test automation framework for iWD, which shortened test cycles.

Alcatel-lucent

Software Engineer

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs · Bydgoszcz, Poland

April 2008 – May 2010:
Was a member of a team that worked on Video-voice MailboX.
Designed and implemented a high availability backend for a notification subsystem based on MySQLCluster and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Created a supervision mechanism for VMX applications to achieve 5-9s availability.
Designed and developed a data access layer for messages stored in IMAP for voice-to-text messaging service.
Set up a development environment for VMX based on virtual machines running on top of KVM - hardware needs for development were decreased by 75%.
June 2010 – 2011:
Delegated to a subsidiary company Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories to work on one of its products till the company was sold to a financial investor in December 2011 – details above

Domdata

Software Engineer

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Poznań, Poland

Was on a team of 3 that built a debt collection module for Granit ERP from scratch.
Optimized critical parts of the debt collection module – some were sped up by 3000%.
Researched and implemented a proof of concept to migrate the platform from Delphi  to C# and .NET.

Wikia

QA Engineer

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Poznań, Poland

Was the first QA on board and created test cases for new features based on MediaWiki.
Started an effort related to test automation.
Implemented performance tests of wikia.com.

Lucent technologies

Software Engineer

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo · Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian District, Poland

Was on a team of 3 and developed a couple of plugins for an in-house sanity health check tool for Messaging Link, which helped to increase the up-time of the application.
Automated about 90% of functional test cases for ML.

Freelancer

Software Engineer

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Designed and implemented an application for a financial company that supported its mortgage sales process.
Created several web pages for local businesses to strengthen their web presence.