Summary
Andrzej Jackowski is an experienced backend engineer and academic with 12 years in distributed systems, best known for six years developing NEC HYDRAstor and leading its team to improve petabyte-scale storage with global deduplication. He combines hands-on production experience with research as a PhD candidate studying petabyte-scale distributed storage and teaches advanced operating systems and distributed programming at the University of Warsaw. Comfortable moving between industry and academia, he has led teams, shipped large-scale storage features, and also founded a small e-commerce startup early in his career. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs practical engineering discipline with a curiosity for large-scale research problems.
12 years of coding experience