Summary
Jakub Gutkowski is a pragmatic CTO and seasoned software leader with 15+ years building cloud-native, distributed systems and shaping engineering organizations from Warsaw. He combines hands-on principal engineering—designing scalable microservices, Kubernetes platforms and DevOps practices—with strategic architecture work for clients like Atlassian, Mambu and the European Commission. Jakub excels at translating product needs into the right technology choices, championing pragmatism over fashion and documenting decisions via ADRs and clear principles. He founded large community initiatives and training programs (devWarsztaty, containerization conferences) that filled seats in seconds and helped thousands of engineers level up. Beyond enterprise delivery, he runs a prolific technical blog and has led projects ranging from PSD2 personal finance apps to document classification for Siemens, revealing a knack for applying architecture to diverse, real-world domains. Colleagues describe him as open-minded, a strong listener who finds unexpected solutions by bringing varied perspectives together.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Database and Software Engineering, Master, Database and Software Engineering at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
English, Polish