Mar 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Remote

• Designing, building, and automating critical portions of the Upbound Cloud service infrastructure
• Taking ownership of the health and reliability of the live production service and infrastructure, ensuring that SLOs/SLAs are consistently met
• Providing routine maintenance and support of Kubernetes based infrastructure, including extending Kubernetes API and functionality via CRD/Controller applications
• Supporting the full project lifecycle - discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and production-readiness

Sep 2021 – Feb 2022 · 5 mos · Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

• Design and architect virtual solutions for on-premise Kubernetes environment (Rancher, Kubevirt, Ceph, Vault)
• Creation, maintenance, enhancement, and monitoring of internal R&D services (GitLab, Artifactory, products-related applications based on Docker and Kubernetes).
• Integration between products teams in order to create product-specific build & deployment configurations.

Jan 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bad Homburg

• Leading and Defining the Software Architecture for digital-based solutions in the areas of Therapy Management
• Architecture and implementation of Cloud Native Platform to empower developers, streamline engineering processes and increase efficiency.
• Authoring and controlling software architecture documentation
• Assessing platforms and technologies for global adoption
• Primary Lead for specifications and roadmaps related to Cloud Hosting and Cloud Services on Azure
• Review and approval of high and low-level design decisions made by development teams
• Close collaboration with offshore and external software development partners
• Research and advanced development in following technologies: Azure with focus on AKS, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, IoT, Docker, Terraform
• Achievements:
• Introduced SMART on FHIR architecture leveraging industry standards to streamline integration and development process across the organization
• Architecture and design oversight of data integration between IoT devices and cloud infrastructure
• Containerization and container orchestration with Kubernetes best practices and reference architectures

Feb 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Using state-of-the-art technologies, including, but not limited to; Kubernetes, Docker, Apigee API Gateway, Okta, Linux and working major cloud providers to build a multi-cloud Platform facilitating company's adoption of modern, microservices based software development.
• Fully embracing DevOps philosophy and working within Agile setting, both SCRUM and Kanban to ensure future-proof and successful implementation of challenging business goals.

Jul 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Leading a team of skilled and highly motivated developers tasked with a challenge to create a worthy successor of existing company's main product in the line of fuel logistics delivery management optimization.
• Software was developed as a Single Page Application in Angular Framework to deliver rich user experience and backed up with .NET Core APIs to ensure top performance.
• Software development was strongly anchored in DevOps principles, designing automated tests as well as end to end CI/CD pipeline. Working under high time pressure the Team utilized Agile methodology both in SCRUM and Kanban implementations to help reach business goals.

Feb 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Neu-Anspach

• Developing warehouse management systems, including fully automated warehouses using .NET Framework (both C# and VB.NET languages) with SQL Server as backend.
• Developing other tools, using patterns and technologies such as: MS Excel 2007-2010, MS Access 2007-2010, .NET C# desktop and web applications, VSTO, MS Business Intelligence Studio (SSAS, SSRS), MVVM, MEF.
• Supporting existing customers and implementing new solutions (changes) to existing systems. Desktop applications, WPF and database side (MS SQL)
• Achievements:
• o Assisted in development and implementation fully automated Warehouse Management System. (VB.NET Desktop, MS SQL Server, WCF Services)
• o Extending existing software to support automated orders pick up (VB.NET Desktop, Oracle 11g, Windows Services)

Nov 2009 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Managing European Operations Service Development Team within Elavon’s Systems & Technology Department.
• Improving many core processes in the company by rapid design, implementation and support of small and midsized applications aiding business processes primarily but not exclusively in Operations.
• Designing and implementation of internal program for supporting workflow and information management within the Back office structures.
• Serving internal customers in the company by:
• o Designing and implementing processes automation with MS Excel macros.
• o Close cooperation with different Departments within main Site in Warsaw as well as with other Sites.
• o Providing software solutions and workarounds for common problems.
• o Developing scripts and macros to help automating business processes.
• o Providing support for existing applications.
• o Looking for new opportunities to save costs with software solutions.

Jan 2007 – Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Career development:
• Serving as quality assurance while working with amendment log process, checking if changes were introduced to the systems according to procedures.
• Promoted to Queries Team Supervisor within Warsaw Services Structure (managing 10 people Team).
• Promoted to Services Unit Manager (managing 36 people including Supervisors).
• Main duties/achievements
• Improving SLA (service level agreement) and quality in most areas of expertise in managed Unit due to applied management techniques MS Excel automations.
• Supervising the process of changes of customers’ details in enterprise level systems including bank details and legal details changes.
• Creating and implementing procedures to securely and efficiently manage customer’s data in the company’s systems.
• Playing key role in systems conversions to new international processing platform.
• Increasing of the managed workload in the Team by successfully motivating and leading all involved people.

Jun 2006 – Dec 2006 · 6 mos · Suwałki Area, Poland

• Helping people with various disabilities and conditions, mostly focusing on back problems.
• Working closely with diet specialists and helping people to reduce weight by exercises and proper diet.
• Giving lectures and occasional speeches in schools about health related issues, mostly focused on educating how to prevent back pain and spine related problems.

Feb 2006 – Mar 2006 · 1 mo · Doncaster, United Kingdom

• Working in Customers Retention Unit which main task was to deal with customers considering leaving O2, understanding the reason of this decision and trying to negotiate terms that would convince customer to continue using company’s services.
• Helping Customers in choosing proper services and handsets.
• Offering best handsets suiting the needs of individual customers.

Dec 2001 – Sep 2002 · 9 mos · Warsaw Area, Poland

• Improving information security by implementing of Information Security Policies in energetic, insurance, banking and others sectors.
• Working closely with customers on creating information security documentation such as procedures, instructions, manuals, etc.
• Taking part in creating sales offers for Information Security Policy and meeting new customers to present the offers.
• Maintaining relationships with customers both as a salesman and consultant.
• Improving security in banks by performing Public Key Infrastructure auditing in banking sector.

Sep 2001 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr 4 mos · Suwałki Area, Poland

• Helping people with various disabilities and conditions, mostly focusing on back problems.
• Working closely with diet specialists and helping people to reduce weight by exercises and proper diet.
• Giving lectures and occasional speeches in schools about health related issues, mostly focused on educating how to prevent back pain and spine related problems.

Oct 1998 – Dec 2001 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Suwałki Area, Poland

• Managing 6 people Sales Team including merchants’ complaints, promoted from 01.01.2001.
• Responsibility for managing and implementing procedure and instructions for ISO 9001 within managed department.
• Contact with domestic and foreign customers resolving any issues and assisting with queries.
• Cooperation with forwarding companies to ensure timely delivery of the furniture.
• Additional duties of translator (English and German).
• Implementation and later administration of SAP R/3 system for SD module.
• Configuration of SAP R/3 system, mainly creating reports in ABAP/4 Query language