Technology and AI leader with 16+ years of experience in software architecture, cloud platforms, large-scale systems, and AI strategy. Currently heading Technology & AI at Pretius, driving AI integration, technology vision, and R&D across consulting engagements. Experienced in building and managing diverse, high-performing engineering teams delivering in agile and SAFe methodologies across energy, fintech, telecom, and media. Strong track record in cross-functional collaboration with Product, Business, Data, and engineering stakeholders, leadership reporting, and risk management.
Technology Strategy
AI Strategy
R&D Leadership
Engineering Leadership
People Management
Team Building
Coaching & Mentoring
Org Design
Operating Models
Agile & SAFe Delivery
Stakeholder Management
Architecture Governance
Technology Vision
Ethics & Compliance
Leadership & Delivery
- Technology vision, roadmap, and R&D oversight
- Scaling and transforming engineering organizations (50+ people)
- Team building, coaching, and multicultural leadership
- Agile, Scrum, and SAFe delivery frameworks
- Operating model design and multi-team coordination
- Risk identification and management
Technical & AI
- AI governance, EU AI Act compliance, GDPR, and bias auditing
- AI strategy, LLM integration, agentic workflows
- High-availability cloud platforms and search systems
- Java, Spring, Python, C/C++
- Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
- AWS, integrations, API design
- Strategic leadership: defining technology roadmap, driving AI integration across the organization, and overseeing R&D initiatives.
- Architecture governance ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability of solutions delivered to clients.
- Upskilling engineers to AI-augmented development workflows; driving thought leadership and knowledge sharing.
- AI ethics and compliance oversight including GDPR, EU AI Act alignment, and bias auditing processes.
- Pre-sales technical consulting on Technology & AI strategy for enterprise clients.
- Global technical leadership for an engineering department of 50+ colleagues.
- Delivered a resilient cloud search service handling ~1.2B annual queries with peak >100 QPS.
- Designed and evolved an agile operating model across multi-team for end-to-end software delivery.
- Built a multilingual, multicultural team delivering dozens of projects every year.
- Oversaw architecture and delivery of a GenAI-based search agent for conversational products.
- Led and tech-led new high-value services.
- Built a new team from scratch.
- Architected and delivered a microservice-based application integrated with an existing monolith.
- Led projects end-to-end; designed architectures, APIs, data models, integrations, and internal tools.
- Managed a 5–15 person team; recruitment, mentoring and coaching.
- Delivered a CMS for a large media company serving millions of personalized multimedia messages daily.
- Built a private-cloud, Kubernetes-based solution for a telco; exposed metadata via REST and SOAP services.
- Implemented a banking deposits backend including accounting operations and Elixir transaction integration.
- Created a C++ library for time-sensitive, high-availability, parallel-streamed stock exchange data (XDP).
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Foundations Associate (2026)
- Generative AI For Leaders — Coursera (2025)
- Storytelling: Speak in Stories — aktren.pl (2025)
- Building Great Leaders — Franklin Covey @ Schneider Electric (2024)
- High Performance Collaboration — Northwestern University (2024)
- Diversity and Inclusion — Schneider Electric (2024)
- COBIT 5 Foundation (2023)
- TOGAF 9 Level 1 (2023)
- Professional Scrum Developer (2021)
- ITIL 4 Foundation (2019)
- PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner (2013)
- SCJP / OCJP (2008)
- M.S., Telecommunication — Warsaw University of Technology (2009–2012)
Master's thesis:
Speech Recognition System as a Computer Game Interface —
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- B.S., Telecommunication — Warsaw University of Technology (2005–2009)
Bachelor's thesis:
WLAN Network Simulator —
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- Janicki, A.; Wawer, D. Voice‑driven Computer Game in Noisy Environments. International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (IJCSA), Vol. X, Issue I, 2013.
- Janicki, A.; Wawer, D. Automatic Speech Recognition for Polish in a Computer Game Interface. Proceedings of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), pp. 711–716, Szczecin, 2011.
