Olaf Górski

Lead/Senior Python Engineer @The Engineers

System ArchitectBlogger✨ Business OwnerFounderBackend Developer🧨 Consulting🧑‍🔬 Engineer📝 Influencer or BloggerBusiness Owner✔️ IT🔥 Startup Founder

An engineer who started seeing Human & Business side of developing Products based on reliable data and evidence instead of only Engineering. Code is only a tool used to solve problems. Focus on them, not on your tool. Have humility in what you do and believe in meritocracy, not hierarchy. Other than being a big Python/LLM enthusiast, I have taken a liking to certain functional programming aspects and working with people. Scaling the app quite often is easy, scaling the team so it performs better, not so much. Dabbling with Product Ownership/Management/Leadership, yet my interests still mainly stay with technology. Also, an author with a published book about Python.

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Work Background

SumUpSenior AI Software Engineer, SumUp/Fivestars

Mar. 2023 - Sep. 2023Managed to drive & lead a full production grade genAI, LLM based conversational AI automation solution for Customer Service for $8B company, driving the start of the whole AI initiative in the company, researching, implementing and exploring new ways we could translate AI keywords in real life business value, especially in Customer Service. Technologies: GPT models, Langchain, openA, Vector Databases, Qdrant, GPTCache, llm-security, guardrails and much more.

The EngineersSelf Employed

Apr. 2020 - Sep. 2023:-?)

OnionmindsetSenior/Lead Python Developer

Dec. 2021 - Jan. 2023Warszawa, Woj. Mazowieckie, PolskaContractor work for various clients. As a Lead Developer I was a manager being responsible for teams of up to 10 people, their development, daily work, happiness and results that the team delivers. Other than purely leadership and coaching aspects of professional life I also had to take part in the engineering effort developing features myself and have overview over the whole product tech stack and progress, constantly doing research about our system design, architecture and everything related, being responsible for everything engineering related and the technology. Coordinating the teams' cooperation with other departments, ensuring smoothness of the process spanning from business requirements gathering to implementation and tech choices. Ensuring proper technical and professional growth of the team and preparing things like yearly performance reviews. As a Senior I took ownership over delivering major features and guiding more junior teammates. Technologies: Python3, Django, Docker, GitHub, AWS

Starburst DataTechnical Product Analyst

Dec. 2020 - Nov. 2021Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesAt Starburst I worked directly with the CTO, doing Competitive Analysis for data-oriented products, helping to build Competetive Analysis team. I had to work on, deploy, manage, compare, analyze and benchmark many big-data products (eg. Hive, Impala, Dremio) indifferent cloud environments, gathering various insights from that process, gather the data and automate processes using mostly Python & Bash. After that came producing reports/presentations that sales, solution architects, or engineers could use and leverage to gain competitive advantage, be it in the sales process, coming up with product development roadmap, or just to brag how awesome Starburst is compared to the competition in marketing campaigns.I had to discuss the results of my work and produce content understandable for a broad range of audiences, ranging from very tech-savvy engineers to more marketing-oriented sales people. Technologies: Starburst, Trino, SQL, Bash, Python, Scripting, Linux, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes

thirty3Product Engineer

Jun. 2019 - Nov. 2020Zürich Area, SwitzerlandBuilding innovative data-driven Products in a cross-functional team. Other than being an engineer, I've stepped up to become something more - took part and ownership of the Product too, learning to be the Product Owner, guiding the team in some aspects, and, most importantly, building/scaling it while doing so, while still remaining a lead engineer on the Product we build. As someone present in the Company since it's birth, I've taken part in shaping and creating its structures, culture and strategies, the team. Also mentoring junior employees on their path forward, onboarding and managing people.

DevsData LLCSoftware Engineer

Feb. 2019 - May. 2020Warsaw, Masovian District, PolandLeading Python API projects, mostly data-intensive apps for the financial sector. Consulting services for recruitment purposes for backend/engineering roles.

SyneriseJunior Python Developer

Dec. 2018 - Jun. 2019Warsaw, Masovian District, PolandSynerise is an AI-driven marketing platform. It's cool and all, but in order to make it work seamlessly, you have to integrate with your client's data, get it into your system. Do it quickly and without errors. ETL at scale basically. That's what the team of which I was a part of, did. Therefore I was responsible for often importing our client's data into our systems, converting it into the proper format, validating it and automatization of these actions with Unix tools/bash scripts and Python on a scale. Later I've also started developing a product on my own whose purpose was to provide a possibility for the client to Inspect and Validate data on their own. Python, Sanic, Django, Postgres, Django Rest Framework, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Azure

iMeshupPython Developer

Sep. 2018 - Feb. 2019Warsaw, Masovian District, PolandDespite my small experience, through hard work and dedication to the project, I've managed to become a core developer in the project, having at least some part in writing almost every functionality together with the rest of the team. We created the code from scratch, so we could choose our dream stack, and we did precisely that - AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Django, Celery, DRF and PostgreSQL, worked out great for our back-end, enabling us to provide a scalable solution to the quite demanding service of versioning, converting and compressing 3D files as a SaaS, so it was an application heavy on the computing and asynchronous part.

Yumasoft sp. z o.o.Junior Software Developer

Dec. 2017 - Sep. 2018Wroclaw, Lower Silesian District, PolandThis role was mostly composed of maintenance of a big, monolithic Pylons application that was being used by our international corporate client in many of their branches for data visualization. I maintained part of the backend and some of the frontend parts, often debugging complex and unexpected issues spanning multiple levels of application design.

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