Dariusz Wawer

Senior Engineering Manager & Architect — Cloud Platforms • Data Processing • Search • AI • High-Availability Systems
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About

Digital leader with 16+ years of experience in software architecture, cloud platforms, large-scale systems, system integrations, and CI/CD. 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. Lifelong passion for gaming with practical, non-commercial projects and Games Platform–aligned interests.

Engineering Leadership People Management Team Building Coaching & Mentoring Org Design Operating Models Agile & SAFe Delivery Stakeholder Management Platform Strategy Architecture Governance

Core Qualifications

Leadership & Delivery

  • Team building, coaching, and multicultural leadership
  • Agile, Scrum, and SAFe delivery frameworks
  • Operating model design and multi-team coordination
  • Risk identification and management

Technical

  • High-availability cloud platforms and search systems
  • Java, Spring, Python, C/C++
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
  • AWS, integrations, API design

Experience

Solution Architect → Manager — Schneider Electric Feb 2022 – Present
  • 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.
Digital Leader — Kyriba Feb 2021 – Mar 2022
  • 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.
Technical Project Leader → Architect — Pretius Apr 2015 – Jan 2021
  • 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.
Programmer — CC Open Computer Systems Aug 2008 – Apr 2015
  • 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).

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Education

Awards

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Talks, Articles & Media

Keywords for Search

Senior engineering manager, software architect, cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, developer experience, platform engineering, search systems, microservices, telecom, fintech, media, Warsaw, Poland, Games Platform.