About me

Software generalist. Working in intersection of team leadership, product strategy, full-stack development, and scalable solutions. Balancing high-level strategy vs. hands-on problem solving. From mentoring and hiring entry level engineers to debugging hard critical issues.

Career highlights:
- Leading remote teams at MovingWorlds (education startup). Driving growth during the COVID times.
- Tech leading at Microsoft’s Windows 10 Cortana UX autocomplete team (London)
- Leading ERP consultancy team in finance industry, delivering enterprise-level on-premise systems
- Leading tech team at Wavepaths music platform

Side projects:
- LLM-based community moderation on Telegram (janus-telegramus.com)
- AI-gen Shopify product customizer (personalo.me)

Core Principles:

Customer-centric execution Data-driven decisions Simplification over complexity Impact-focused iteration Automated testing for scalability 80% of value in 20% of time

Career

KukawskiCorp - CPS

2025 - Present

Building AI-first (LLMs) products for community forums moderation (janus-telegramus.com) and Shopify product customizer (personalo.me).
(see Side Projects)

python PostgreSQL LLMs Django AWS NodeJS Telegram API Remix Shopify

Wavepaths - VP of Engineering

2023 - 2024

Leading team in building platform that facilitates live, unique, personalised music experiences for therapeutic and personal use.

GCP PostgreSQL React HLS WebAudio TypeScript NodeJS

MovingWorlds - Director of Engineering

2017 - 2022

Leading team, tech and product strategy at a social impact startup, driving growth during the COVID crisis.
Cut the tech costs 3x. Built out a team. Grew revenue 5x. Ran a lot of experiments and pivoted business model.
Automated dozens of operations processes. Co-lead the company on a strategical level.

AWS PostgreSQL Contentful LMS CRM NodeJS TypeScript Segment GA

Microsoft - Software Engineering Lead

2010 - 2016

Performance, Instrumentation and Telemetry of Windows 10 Cortana UI.
Design and Implementation of suggestions frontend and middleware of Bing search engine.

C# TypeScript Azure Warehouse ASP.NET MVC Windows 10 Big Data Telemetry