Summary
Jakub Kułak is an experienced IT director and CIO with over 14 years of hands-on and leadership experience delivering scalable web and cloud solutions across media, finance and public sectors. He has built and led distributed engineering teams, established technology vision and modern DevOps/Agile practices, and driven transformation work from startups to large corporates like Bauer Media and Interia. Known for hiring and nurturing high-performing teams, he pairs strategic P&L and delivery ownership with a developer’s curiosity—still experimenting with frameworks and tooling on GitHub focused on security, performance and automation. Recent roles include leading Data/AI and FinOps capabilities and now overseeing SRE, IT and delivery as CIO at BLIK. Comfortable operating at board level and in deep technical trenches, he blends pragmatic architecture with transparency and clear goal-setting to accelerate product and cloud migrations.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Certificate Internet Technologies, Post Graduate Certificate Internet Technologies at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Krakow University of Economics
Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science/Information Technology Information Technology, Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science/Information Technology Information Technology at Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszki
Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese Language and Literature at Confucius Institute at Jagiellonian University
English, Polish, German, Spanish