Summary
Jan Gurda is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of commercial experience, now based in Krakow, Poland, who blends hands-on development with systems-level architectural thinking. He has led and built payment and financial-data platforms at Schibsted and Warner Bros. Discovery—designing high-throughput, reliable services and streaming pipelines using Java, Spring, Kafka and AWS. Comfortable both managing teams and contributing as a senior engineer, Jan focuses on simple, effective solutions that scale in production and prioritize observability and stability. His background includes designing mission-critical, high-availability APIs at Sabre handling billions of daily transactions, showing a long-standing expertise in performance and reliability engineering.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at AGH University of Krakow
English, Polish