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Jedrzej Nowak (NJ)

Senior Engineering Leader with proven track record in building and managing successful distributed teams. Remote work specialist since 2015.

The easiest way to pronounce my name is NJ, which also happens to be my initials backwards.

I am still a fairly technical person, and I often play a Systems Architect role or Tech Advisor role depending on the team's needs.

🟢 Currently Available

Ready for the Next Chapter

After almost three years with Spacemesh and a short break, I am ready for the next chapter.

I am now looking for opportunities to nurture the growth of engineering teams and develop self-sustaining team dynamics. I aim for a position that values and leverages my technical leadership skills, a place where remote work is welcomed and expected.

What I'm Looking For:

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Engineering Manager

Leading and developing high-performing engineering teams

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Head of Engineering

Strategic technical leadership and organizational growth

These roles best suit me and allow me to contribute the most value.

Let's Talk About Opportunities

Professional Experience

Engineering Manager / Head of Engineering

Spacemesh 06/2022 - 03/2025
  • Leading distributed engineering teams in developing a revolutionary decentralized cryptocurrency
  • Architecting and guiding strategic technical decisions for the ecosystem
  • Establishing and maintaining robust development processes and team structures
  • Driving community engagement and translating user feedback into actionable development plans
  • Managing talent acquisition and team development initiatives
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams encompassing development, documentation, QA, and DevOps

Tech Stack:

  • Kubernetes - internal testing infra, production cluster on BM plus GKE and AKS
  • Cloudflare - LB, WAF, Workers and multiple other services to protect the services
  • Bare Metal - some components needed direct bare metal access
  • Languages - Go, Rust and TypeScript
  • Other tools - Docker, Terraform and Ansible

Senior Engineering Manager & Site Manager

CodiLime 09/2021 - 06/2022
  • Orchestrated multiple cloud-native projects across various development phases
  • Led cross-functional teams utilizing Go, C++, JS, TypeScript, and Python
  • Site Manager of the Wroclaw office location

Tech Stack:

  • Languages - Go, C++, Typescript/JS and Python
  • VMWare Tanzu - Customer project
  • Kubernetes - Platform etc

Head of Engineering

Travelping GmbH 11/2019 - 09/2021
  • Spearheaded cloud-based mobile network core operations using Kubernetes
  • Established and executed comprehensive team growth and recruitment strategies
  • Optimized operations through strategic third-party integrations
  • Implemented robust infrastructure automation solutions
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams encompassing development, documentation, QA, DevOps and 24/7

Tech Stack:

  • Kubernetes - production clusters, testing infrastructure, GCP, AWS
  • Bare Metal - misc components needed direct bare metal deployments
  • Languages - mostly Go with telco core components in Erlang and C

Software Engineering Manager (Kubernetes)

Mirantis 05/2017 - 12/2019
  • Managed globally distributed teams across multiple time zones
  • Led development and deployment of Mirantis Kubernetes distribution
  • Pioneered 5G edge cloud integration initiatives
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams encompassing development, documentation, QA, and DevOps

Tech Stack:

  • Kubernetes - product build based on k8s on BM
  • Languages - mostly Go with parts in Python

Kubernetes Development/Tech Lead

Mirantis 04/2016 - 05/2017
  • Led distributed engineering teams in Kubernetes ecosystem development
  • Facilitated open-source community engagement and contributions

Tech Stack:

  • Kubernetes - product build based on k8s on BM
  • Languages - mostly Go with parts in Python

Senior Software Engineer

Mirantis 09/2015 - 04/2016
  • Joined greenfield project to solve orchestration issue on 1000s of openstack nodes & more

Tech Stack:

  • Python - Orchestrator was written in Python
  • Openstack - Orchestrator was done for big-scale Openstack deployments

Co-Owner

Codernity 04/2011 - 09/2015
  • Pioneered development of innovative PaaS solution featuring zero-downtime deployment
  • Architected cryptocurrency exchange platform and trading system
  • Developed advanced distributed storage solution
  • Created data center analytics and monitoring system

Tech Stack:

  • Python - Most projects were in Python
  • Node.js - There were also some in Node.js
  • Bare metal servers - There were multiple projects for customers using bare metal servers

Early Career

Various Organizations 2004 - 2011
  • Python Engineer at Sodatech AG, Switzerland
  • Independent consultant specializing in server management, DevOps, and open-source contributions

Tech Stack:

  • Bare metal servers - these were times when BM was the only option
  • Languages - Python

Ready to Connect?

Let's discuss how I can help lead your engineering team(s) to success.

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