date_range 2021-04-19 - 2022-11-30
Heading all aspects of software engineering
- Responsible for all engineering efforts
- Built roadmaps & OKRs
- Lead a distributed team of developers
- Managed partner teams' relationships
- Recruited and onboarded developers
- Startup culture
date_range 2019-09-23 - 2021-05-07
Working with partners and internal teams. Setting up and improving processes
- Lead recruiter platform and shared services teams
- Recognized for Resourceful Problem Solving
- Recognized for the Best Idea in a Reed Group-wide challenge (json resume)
- Best Business Value hackday winner (cloudflare workers site hosting)
- Supervised integration with a third party data collection platform
- Supervised integrations with third party Application Tracking Systems
- Supervised integration with a third party customer engagement platform
- Ramped up and managed multiple partner teams
- Reorganized development processes and workflows
- Worked directly with recruiters and talent acquisition team and improved recruitment pipeline
- Conducted 100+ telephone & face to face interviews and hired a number of developers
- Liaised between internal teams
- Actively involved in architectural discussions
- Conducted leads and team meetings
date_range 2020-08-01 - 2021-01-31
Technical co-founder responsible for all things technical (TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Firebase, GCP, Serverless, React)
- Built an MVP
- Recruited and worked with freelance developers
- Evaluated and decided on technology choices
date_range 2019-07-01 - 2019-09-22
Developing reed.co.uk website (C#, ASP.NET, .NET, .NET Core, Microservices, TDD)
- Lead a team of 3 developers
- Actively involved in recruitment. Hired 2 team members for my team and number of developers for other teams
- Extracted SEO service from a monolithic application
- Fixed nightly builds and flaky tests. Fixed casing issues in git
- Actively involved in architectural discussions
date_range 2018-06-19 - 2019-06-30
Lead a team of 5 developers and a tester (C#, .NET, .NET Core, SQL Server, RabbitMQ, Microservices, Event Driven, CQRS, Event Sourcing, TDD, Docker)
- Maintained a low incidents ratio SLA
- Maintained a CI/CD pipeline with on demand deployment to production
- Operated a fully devops environment with developers owning their work end to end
- Conducted regular 1:1 and team building activities. Mentored and coached team members
- Conducted phone and face to face interviews. Hired 6 developers
- Extracted parts of the monolith to services
- Implemented 3 new warehouse integrations. Unified codebase and workflows for 2 existing warehouses. Worked directly with warehouses' developers
- Implemented returns from stores process for bulk stock transfers back to a warehouse
- Rebuilt returns/exchanges data flow
- Improved performance around orders processing to support Black Friday peak sales
- Worked with a third party vendor to Create a Web Returns in Store portal and supporting data flows
date_range 2014-01-01 - 2018-06-18
Development of all of the company's systems and applications (C#, ASP.NET, .NET, AngularJS, SignalR, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL Server, IoT, Raspberry PI, Python, Access Control, CQRS)
- Created a camping field management: online booking & payments, resource & inventory management, accounting, payments, data migrations
- Created a point of Sale system integrated with web printers
- Built an access control system based on RFID and Raspberry PI
- Created a home monitoring system & self service control panel with Raspberry PI
- Supervised and mentored on site and nearshore developers
- Migrated from a single tenant to a multi-tenant application model
- Maintained a character traits and qualities assessment website
date_range 2012-08-29 - 2013-12-31
Conducted training & certification sessions for new Sitecore Certified Developers (C#, ASP.NET, .NET, Sitecore). Assisted in sales process
- Delivered training sessions across the globe
- Supported numerous successful technical sales presentations
- Prepared proof of concepts demonstrations
date_range 2011-09-01 - 2012-08-28
Developed a data migration solution as part of the top 10 priority projects globally (C#)
- Acted as a team lead of 3 developers
- Built a tool to migrate data between 3rd party vendors in a validate environment
date_range 2008-09-01 - 2010-12-31
Outsourced software development (C#, .NET, ASP.NET, Active Directory, SQL Server, ELK, PHP)
- Hired and outsources 3 software developers as a nearshore solution to Scannet
- Joined a startup and built a self service hosted office solution with Windows Remote Apps
- Multiple small projects & assignments
date_range 2006-09-01 - 2008-12-31
Created company's web control panel for products. Built a resource monitoring and billing solution. (C#, ASP.NET WebForms, .NET, SQL Server, MS Exchange, HMC)
- Created a self service web control panel for Hosted Exchange and other products
- Programmatically migrated organizations and users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
- Created a resource monitoring and billing tool and earned the company 500k DKK/year in missing invoices
date_range 2005-04-01 - 2006-08-31
Development of WinForms & WebForms applications (C#, .NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server)
- Built a drag and drop any application in place auto update component
- Developed a digital signature solution using a X509 certificates and a hardware security module (HSM)
- Created an ORM library
- Ported a WinForms application to ASP.NET WebForms
date_range 2004-04-01 - 2006-03-31
Maintenance and development of VB6 applications (VB6, SQL Server, VB.NET, .NET)
- Developed a VB.NET frontend over VB6 COM components
date_range 2000-01-01 - 2004-03-31
Responsible for all systems operations. Hardware & software maintenance and purchases
- Built a VB6 application for Amica Wronki service centers
date_range 2017-07-01 - 2018-06-30
Advisory role to the incoming team
- Presided over newly formed District Conference
- District Parliamentarian
date_range 2016-07-01 - 2017-06-30
Responsible for all of District's operations from creating the District Success Plan and budgeting to daily operations
- Lead a team of 6 district leaders and 12 Division Directors
- Presided over district executive and district council meetings
- Prepared the District for a new Educational Program
- Navigated through number of major obstacles such as dues increase & black PR from competing organizations
- Realigned the District into 3 new districts
- 2 x District Conferences - 300+ attendees (Warsaw, Berlin)
date_range 2015-07-01 - 2016-06-30
Responsible for program quality in continental Europe. Organization of District Conferences
- Part of the District Leadership team. Worked directly with 10 Division Directors
- Organized trainings for incoming leaders
- Excellence in Program Quality
- President's Distinguished District - highest recognition
- 2 x District Conferences - 300+ attendees (Prague, Timisoara)
date_range 2014-07-01 - 2015-06-30
Responsible for building new clubs and membership base in continental Europe
- Part of the District Leadership team worked directly with 10 Division Governors
- #1 in the world in club growth
- Excellence in Marketing recognition
- President's Distinguished District - highest recognition
date_range 2013-07-01 - 2014-06-30
Responsible for all clubs in Poland: building new clubs, ensuring quality, organizing conferences
- Lead a team of 7 area governors
- President’s Distinguished Division - highest recognition
- Hosted the first polish humorous speech championship
- 2 x Toastmasters Leadership Institutes - 300+ attendees
- 30% growth in club base
- Chaired the Division Reformation Committee
date_range 2012-07-01 - 2013-06-30
Responsible for all PR activities
- Club members featured in local TV and radio stations
date_range 2011-07-01 - 2012-06-30
Presided over a club of 30-50 members. Represented the club on District Council Meetings
- Presided over club weekly meetings, club's board meetings and lead a team of 6 club officers
- Missed no meetings in over a year of membership
- President’s Distinguished Club - highest recognition
- Organizers team of a District Conference - 300+ attendees
- Trained small business owners, students and scouts on public speaking
- date_range 1999-10-01 - 2005-09-30
- date_range 2011-01-01 - 2018-06-30
- Leadership
- Public Speaking
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Team Building
- calendar_today 2022-07-17
Fundamental level of Scrum mastery
- calendar_today 2021-06-29
Highest level of educational achievement in Toastmasters
- calendar_today 2020-12-18
Best Business Value hackday winner
- calendar_today 2020-07-03
Recognized for the Best Idea in a Reed Group-wide challenge
- calendar_today 2020-06-10
Recognized for resourceful problem solving
- calendar_today 2020-06-24
Advanced level certification in communication
- calendar_today 2020-06-16
Highest level of educational achievement in Toastmasters
- calendar_today 2020-06-13
Advanced level certification in communication
- calendar_today 2020-06-13
Advanced level certification in communication
- calendar_today 2020-06-13
Advanced level certification in leadership
- calendar_today 2020-05-28
Advanced level certification in leadership
- calendar_today 2020-05-14
Advanced level certification in communication
- calendar_today 2016-07-01
Met all the goals in program quality. The District scored top 10 in the world
- calendar_today 2016-07-01
Top score in the Distinguished District Program
- calendar_today 2015-07-01
Met all the goals in club building and membership growth. The District scored #1 in the world
- calendar_today 2015-07-01
Top score in the Distinguished District Program
- calendar_today 2014-07-01
Top score in the Distinguished District Program
- calendar_today 2012-07-01
Top score in the Distinguished Club Program
- calendar_today 2013-06-30
Advanced level certification in leadership
- calendar_today 2012-06-30
Advanced level certification in leadership
- calendar_today 2012-06-30
Basic level certification in leadership
- calendar_today 2012-06-30
Basic level certification in public speaking
- calendar_today 2013-07-01
Passed exam WND (Sitecore)
- calendar_today 2013-07-01
Passed exam DMC 2.0 (Sitecore DMS)
- calendar_today 2012-09-01
Passed exam SND (Sitecore)
- calendar_today 2010-07-01
Passed exams 71-519 (.NET 4/Web Applications), 71-518 (.NET 4/Windows Applications), 71-516 (.NET 4/ADO.NET), (.NET 4/Web Applications), (.NET 4/Windows Applications)
- calendar_today 2010-07-01
Passed exam 71-506 (.NET/Silverlight 4)
- calendar_today 2009-07-01
Passed exams 70-564 (PRO ASP.NET .NET 3.5/C#), 70-536 (.NET/C#), 70-528 (ASP.NET/C#)
- calendar_today 2006-07-01
Passed exams 70-300 (Architecture/Requirements), 70-229 (SQL Server), 70-547 (ASP.NET 2.0/C# 2.0)
- calendar_today 2005-07-01
Passed exams 70-320 (Web Services/C#), 70-316 (Windows Forms/C#), 70-315 (ASP.NET/C#)
- calendar_today 2001-07-01
Passed exam 70-210: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Team lead
- Developer
- Lead a team of 4 developers
- Team lead
- Developer
- Main point of technical contact. Lead 1 developer.
- Team lead
- Developer
- Lead a team of a developer and a tester
- Team lead
- Developer
- Lead a team of 3 developers
- Team lead
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 2 developers
- Worked with the warehouse IT staff across different time zones
- Team lead
- Lead 1 developer
- Integrated with Amazon and legacy systems & handled major data inconsistencies
- Team lead
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 3 developers
- Moved 200K+ items, 20+ trucks worth of stock UK -> PL on a short (Brexit dictated) deadline
- Developer
- Technical point of contact
- Start to finish
- Created deployment pipeline using Jenkins & Docker swarm
- Enabled returning of items purchased online in a physical store and tracking of the returned stock
- Worked with third party vendor
- Team lead
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 2 developers
- Increased the percentage of returns processed from 20 to almost 60%
- Enabled automatic exchange processing
- Team lead
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 2 developers
- Directly worked with with engineering of 3 different warehouses
- Team lead
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 2 developers
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Fully DevOps environment - owned the system from code to production
- Works integrated with Camping Site Management System or as standalone including online and offline mode
- IoT on the edge
- Developer
- Start to finish - run on 30+ sites
- Fully DevOps environment - owned the system from code to production
- Works integrated with Camping Site Management System or as standalone including online and offline mode
- IoT on the edge
- Team Lead
- Developer
- Start to finish - run on 30+ sites
- Fully DevOps environment - owned the system from code to production
- Web printer integration
- Lead 1 developer
- Developer
- Maintenance & feature development
- Team Lead
- Developer
- Start to finish - run on 30+ sites
- Online booking integration with any site
- Inventory management, resource planning, invoicing, accounting, statistics, reporting
- Integrated with 2 payment gateways
- Integrated with Danish statistics authority
- Integrated with a WiFi system
- Integrated with Access Control system
- Data migrations from 3rd party systems
- Fully DevOps environment - owned the system from code to production
- Fully localized into multiple languages
- Lead up to 3 developers
- Team Lead
- Developer
- Roche Diagnostics Top 10 priority projects
- Worked in a validated environment
- Acted as a team lead of 3 developers
- Team Lead
- Start to finish
- Team Lead
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 2 developers
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Skype calls to a phone number in case of an incident
- Team Lead
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 2 developers
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Migrated tens of thousands of MS Exchange organizations and hundreds of thousands of mailboxes
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Read usage data from multiple sources: disk storage, active directory, sql server databases, etc
- Earned 500k DKK/year in new revenue
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Managed MS Hosted Exchange via Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC)
- Managed Active Directory
- Developer
- Implemented system to digitally sign and receipt emails sent to an organization
- Developer
- Ported a Windows Forms application to Web Forms to support 'should run on Linux' last minute requirement
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Developer
- Maintained legacy codebase
- Developer
- Start to finish
- Interfaced with SAP R/3
- Organizer
- Start to finish
- 2 days, 60+ attendees
- Lead a team of 5 volunteers
- Organizer
- Start to finish
- 2 days, 60+ attendees
- Lead a team of 5 volunteers
- Organizer
- Start to finish
- 2 days, 20+ attendees
- Lead a team of 5 volunteers
- Organizer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 20+ volunteers
- 3 days, 400+ attendees
- Organizer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 20+ volunteers
- 3 days, 400+ attendees
- Mentor
- 600+ attendees
- Hosted Balraj Arunasalam - 2017–2018 International President
- Organizer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 20+ volunteers
- 300+ attendees
- Hosted Darren Tay Wen Jie - 2016 World Champion of Public Speaking
- Organizer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 20+ volunteers
- 400+ attendees
- Hosted Mark Brown - 1995 World Champion of Public Speaking
- Organizer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 20+ volunteers
- 300+ attendees
- Hosted George Yen - 2013–2014 International President
- Organizer
- Start to finish
- Lead a team of 20+ volunteers
- 300+ attendees
- Hosted Mohammed Qahtani - 2015 World Champion of Public Speaking
- Organizer
- Lead a team of 20+ volunteers
- 300+ attendees
- Hosted Jim Kokocki - 2015–2016 International President
- Organizers Team
- IT Support
- Start to finish
- First District Conference in Poland
- 300+ attendees
- Responsible for registrations, website and on-site IT support
- Lead a team of 5 volunteers
- Hosted Mark Hunter - 2009 World Champion of Public Speaking
- First Polish Speech Championships
- Founder
- First club in Poland focusing on politics and economics
- Start to finish
- Weekly meetings, 20+ members
- Streamer
- Twitch Affiliate
- 50 followers
- Developer
- Start to finish
- 50 players
- PHP, Html, MySQL