Summary
Adrian Gierakowski is a Head of Architecture and Security with 14 years of experience designing cloud-native, DevOps-driven systems and resilient trading infrastructure. Based in London and Malta, he has led end-to-end migrations to Kubernetes on GCP, implemented GitOps and IaC practices, and architected integrations with StarkWare and Ethereum for high-throughput trading. He combines deep systems craft—Nix/NixOS, Terraform, ArgoCD, GKE—with functional-programming sensibilities and a background in C++, Node.js and Python. Adrian’s career spans startups and research projects from real‑time audio and 3D sound to scalable distributed processing, giving him an uncommon mix of low-level performance engineering and cloud security leadership. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex cryptographic and infrastructure requirements into auditable, production-grade architectures.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BMus Creative Music Technology Audio Programming Interactive Sound Design Electronic and Acoustic Composition, BMus Creative Music Technology Audio Programming Interactive Sound Design Electronic and Acoustic Composition at The University of Huddersfield
Diploma piano performance, Diploma piano performance at Frederic Chopin School of Music in Warsaw
Masters by Research (MRes) in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Media Arts Technology: Accessible Music Technology for Neuro-disabilities, Masters by Research (MRes) in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Media Arts Technology: Accessible Music Technology for Neuro-disabilities at Queen Mary, U. of London
English, Polish