Summary
Maciej Płachta is a Senior Software Engineer based in Queensland, Australia, with nine years of experience building scalable backend and distributed systems. He currently drives backend development at Blackmagic Design, focusing on Docker/Kubernetes, gRPC and REST APIs, event-sourced CQRS architectures, and AWS-based deployments. His career spans Ortto, Meeco.me, identitii, Aristocrat, Siili Solutions, and Gigaset, where he delivered core services, performance tooling, and polyglot backends in Go and C++. He works with Elastic Stack, OpenAPI, Open Policy Agent, and messaging systems such as NATs, Kafka, and Google Pub/Sub, underpinned by MySQL and PostgreSQL. He holds a Master of Science in Advanced Applied Electronics and a Bachelor of Science in Control Engineering and Robotics from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, blending hardware intuition with software craftsmanship.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Polish, English, Spanish