Artur Gorski

Leading a business vertical spanning a few domains, including merchant-facing solution, customer-facing applications, and a platform-wide notifications system - driving digital transformation through a cloud-first, modern SaaS e-commerce platform at FedEx. Growing and empowering a cross-functional team of ~10, spanning backend (Kotlin), frontend (React/TypeScript), cloud & devops engineering (Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform), incl. Tech Lead / Staff Engineer, SDET, Back-end & Front-end engineers, UX Designer, and Product Manager. Owning and evolving cloud-native architecture based on event-driven, asynchronous patterns and right-sized microservices, with a strong focus on fault isolation, built-in observability, and reversible decision-making. Driving key architectural initiatives with the team, incl. decoupling services to enable independent developability and deployability, introducing a single-queue-per-upstream model to enhance reliability, scalability, observability, and replatforming back-end services from Java to Kotlin to raise code quality and developer experience - resulting in happier developers, reduced mean time to repair, faster incident detection, and fewer incidents overall. Introduced feature flag-driven development, enabling the team to adopt an industry-standard continuous deployment approach with multiple production releases per week, while significantly reducing regressions and production side effects through gradual, controlled rollouts to increasing cohorts of customers. Bridged engineering and commercial teams by breaking down silos and partnering directly with Sales through enablement sessions, ensuring new capabilities were clearly understood and positioned. Built a modern engineering culture focused on autonomy, cross-domain growth, end-to-end ownership, promoting “unblock yourself, unblock others” mindset. Created a full inventory of codebases, CI/CD pipelines, cloud resources, and alerts, boosting transparency and observability.

Responsible for a fully cross-functional team (spread across Europe) incl. Front-end (React/Next.js), Back-end (Python, Go, Rust), Data Engineers, DevOps, and Ecosystem Developer in an early-stage Series A start-up. Directly reported to the CTO, leading and influencing all engineering activities across the company to: drive innovation, streamline & stand up processes, enhance system design and achieve strategic goals. Empowered the team through 1:1s, conflict resolution, introduction of agile SDLC, tech debt reduction, new technologies, trainings, challenging tasks, alignment of roles with team members' skill sets, and minimization of disruptions. Managing sprints, tracking tasks, leading daily meetings, plannings and retrospectives. Documented current architecture, assessed its limitations, and proposed changes. Constant optimization of system design, data collection, storage, decoding, data quality and data analysis processes. Worked together with a Product Manager on a quarterly roadmap creation, clear project goals, and timelines. Providing technical input for planned projects. Partnered with leadership team to discuss and align on work prioritization, actual technical challenges, company strategy and key initiatives. Collaborated with Principal Engineer on evaluation of alternative technologies that should be leveraged and integrated into our system by engineering team. Set up a decision-making process and selection criteria for a new outsourcing partner, prepared Ways of Working and delegated development of one non-core project. Revamped process used to work with external vendor to ensure work efficiency and costs optimization. Achieved significantly better non-functional characteristics by leveraging different programming languages (Go and Rust), tailored to the specific needs of projects. Tech stack: Python, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Go, Rust, AWS, SnowFlake, SingleStore, BigQuery, Cube Dev, Thoughtspot, ETL, Zabbix.

Joined people-first, Series-C crypto banking start-up that rapidly grew into a unicorn, experienced hyper-growth in terms of: employees (from 300 into ~1k within ~6 months), number of clients and product capabilities. • Engineering Manager, Native Mobile organization. Ensuring healthy workload for iOS & Android engineers (spread across APAC/EMEA/LATAM/AMER) that was aligned with business priorities in a very dynamic environment. Revamped mobile CI/CD process by: adapting roll-out strategies into features` criticality, promoting quality-oriented culture and importance of engineering practices. Keeping high engineering stamina by discussing and selecting platform related activities e.g. app modularization, tech debt reduction, new tooling, VIP/clean architecture, increasing code coverage, etc. Monitoring deployments` by analyzing production crashes\errors\ANRs, adoption progress, feedback from users, etc. • Engineering Manager, Onboarding. Increased critical business KPIs (e.g. conversion of sign-ups into onboarded clients, total cost of sign-up process) through various engineering activities (simplified flow, reduction of sign-up steps, integration of different vendors, features parity between mobile & web, redesign of UI/UX). Leading and growing fully cross-functional engineering team incl. iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), BE (Elixir), Web (React) and test engineers (spread across EMEA/LATAM/AMER). • Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering organization. Running company-wide shift-left transformation incl. automated testing on UI and API level, safe-rollouts, minimization of production incidents (and their severities). Second-line manager role, scaled the team into 20+ engineers and grew new leaders. • Engineering Manager, Loans and Credit Cards. Empowering teams through hiring, guidance, mentoring and coaching. Tech stack: React, Typescript, Elixir, Kotlin, Swift, PostgreSQL, Cypress, JavaScript, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, LaunchDarkly, Tableau.

Managing fully cross-functional engineering team incl. POs, Front-end, Back-end, DevOps, Machine Learning and intern engineers. Our cool product is a next generation visualization & analytics application used by engineers and data labellers. Full responsibility for E2E deliveries. Rolled out a product development roadmap (divided into quarters) based on stakeholders' priorities, available budget and ramp-up plans. Initiated further architectural, CI/CD and software testing optimizations. Significantly improved retention of team members. Tech stack: React, Python, Django, Azure, Kubernetes, GraphQL, PyTorch, NumPy, AirFlow, SnowFlake, MongoDB, Pandas etc. Building up autonomous driving software teams from scratch. Direct manager of few Scrum Teams i.e. Middleware, Algorithms Development, Integration Testing, DevOps and other engineering roles (~30-35 engineers). Designed teams, teams' boundaries and promoted synergy between them. Grew and promoted team members into senior engineering roles. Guided technically and shaped teams towards agility & company values in a positive, transparent, trust-based and 'giving' atmosphere. Hiring manager role - jobs' descriptions preparation, candidates selection, conducting & tailoring interviews, providing feedback, communication with external agencies, onboarding etc. Accountable for overall finances of the team incl. staffing, contracts, expenses etc. Setting up and constantly improving software engineering approaches. Maintaining effective communication with disperse engineering roles and groups. Supporting & guiding engineers in development plans and career targets. Decomposing organizational goals into the engineering teams and individuals. Tech stack: C++, Python, scripting languages.

Analysis of training materials for Foundation and Advanced levels in accordance with ISTQB accreditation expectations.

Giving classes (for those who would like to enter IT industry) related to different aspects of software engineering e.g. OOP, scripting, agile methodologies, software testing, databases, requirements engineering etc.

Direct manager of two Scrum Teams. Improved overall engineering practices within the teams via proper code coverage, automation incl. tests on different levels and CI/CD, code reviews, architectural/design discussions, DoD etc. Simultaneous delivery of three complex projects for key customers within a program that was scaling down. Supporting teams and colleagues during changes and transitions.

Direct manager of two cross-functional scrum teams (14 - 16 engineers). Supporting and guiding others in order to achieve their ambitious career goals. Proactively engaged in hiring and onboarding for various roles and teams. Representing company during conferences, fairs and open days. Retention of talents and rolling out development plans based on both individual preferences & possibilities. Delivery Manager of a small (20+), medium (40+) and large projects (80+) in a challenging and complex environment in agile frameworks. Proactively driving projects from planning till customer on-site deployment, acceptance testing and on-going support. Building and strengthening relationships with key stakeholders. Cooperation with geographically distributed teams in multicultural environment. Resolving conflicts on a very different interfaces. Product Owner of two teams providing solutions for public safety area in monolithic and microservices-based architecture for high-scale distributed systems. Prioritizing & grooming Product Backlog, responsible for a delivery of each chunk of a Backlog. Getting input from business perspective and ensuring that teams deliver what is expected. Planning and executing system level integration with multiple teams. Searching for new technologies with a team in order to address demanding non-functional software requirements. Running ISTQB (software testing) training in Poland and UK together with official examination. ~100 passed. Tech stack: C#, Java, C++, MongoDB, Kafka, Docker, Ansible, AWS, RxJava, Kubernetes, Fleet, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, CoreOs, etcd.

Continued role of a hands-on software engineer. Direct manager of a first engineering team (4-10 software engineers). Planning performance development, hiring, retention, performance appraisals, evaluations. Reporting progress, risks and recommendations to senior management.

Continued role of a hands-on software engineer in a cross-functional team. Working on Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery optimizations, stability of automated tests and expanding test automation framework with new areas for tests coverage.

Member of a cross-functional engineering team. Responsible for all aspects of software development incl. requirements, implementation, testing, CI/CD, API-based automation, maintenance. Main technologies: C#/.NET, scripting languages.

Sanity tests automation via TestPartner tool in VB language. Working as a software tester in a Scrum team.

Analysis, design, implementation, verification and execution of test cases for ERP application.

Processing clients` requests in accordance with set process. Automating simple manual tasks by means of scripting languages.