Interdisciplinary and international experience in startups & management consulting build on four pillars:
Product
- Founded a cashflow-positive market-tech company that renders services to a global cosmetics brand
- Bootstrapped tech products in various segments
Technology
- Full-stack experience of around 9 years, typically Vue.js + Node.js + Express + PostgreSQL
- Built own products (3 startups), and platforms for clients (including data processing & visualization, business processes, media asset generation)
- Good understanding of Linux and lean deployments stacks, including AWS
Consulting
- Comfortable taking technical or strategic decisions independently
- Excellent ability in explaining and presenting complex ideas thanks to a background in interaction design
Communication
- Wrote and advised tens of pitch decks, read and analysis hundreds
- Positioned, explained and marketed complex B2B products
- Practical knowledge and understanding of marketing
Part time advisor to the company as it transitioned from B2C to B2B
- Rewrote and repositioned the pitch deck
- Outreach and meetings with VCs and business angels
As a senior consultant I worked on a variety of projects in the banking and automotive industry for international clients. The tools and mindset which I've picked up had a deep impact on my communication methods and problem-solving approach.
Co-founded a market-tech platform which generated marketing campaigns for world's largest cosmetics brands.
- Co-founded as a CPO/CTO with one other co-founder
- Bootstrapped the company up to positive cashflow
- Responsible for product, communication and technology
- Led business development & partnership scouting, negotiated contracts
Responsible for consulting prospective and current clients in an international software house.
- Responsible for client proposals based on a consultative sales approach
- Led and conducted technical and strategic pre-sales discussions with clients
- Built relationships with clients based on technical and product focused consulting
- Spearheaded an internal BI platform
- Established a creative technology lab from scratch, recruited and lead an international team
- Directly responsible to the Swiss Head of Digital and Polish CEO
- Design and development of showcase projects for both markets
- Technological counsel for creative departments
- Identifying operational challenges in data ingestion & solving them with custom solutions
- Aligning internal stakeholders (including both CTOs) over technical initiatives that supported operations
- Planning and developing internal product-platform, coordinating teams and external consultants
- Long term solution planning and system architecture
Bootstrapped a startup in the e-commerce vertical dealing with issues between UX and inventory management.
- Developed an indexing solution that compared products by their thumbnail and description
- Ran a private beta in production for a flash sales e-commerce brand
- Full stack application development on the ELK stack
Third employee of a consultancy - wore many hats during the companies transition from data visualization, to IoT and product development. Involved in many aspects of the business extending all the way to planning and recruitment.
- Project Lead on a 6 month IoT trial project in the insurance sector
- Responsible for client-facing activities and delivery
- Designed and developed data visualizations, SPAs
- Understanding and aligning with C-Level stakeholders
Hands-on tech experience
- AWS
- Bash
- Elasticsearch
- GNU/Linux
- Git
- Mongodb
- Nodejs
- SQL/BI, data analytics
- Postgresql
- Python
- Ruby
- Vuejs
- …
Sectors
- e-commerce/marketing - fashion, beauty, lifestyle
- b2b services, SaaS, marketplaces
- big data, iot
Toolboxes & topics
- consulting experience
- customer-centric design
- empathy
- lean + prototype first
- interaction design
- insight gathering and synthesis
- product development & management
- user interviews
- technology forecasting
- design thinking
- data visualization
- business models
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID)
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
Warsaw University of Technology
- Startup mentor at the pre-incubation program for alumni and students at the Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer Management