Summary
Jarek Pieszka is a seasoned senior developer based in Katowice, Poland, with a long career spanning system engineering, database administration, DevOps and software quality for enterprise and embedded systems. He currently serves as a Senior Developer at SAP and previously shaped DevOps and big data practices at ING Tech Poland while leading database and infrastructure teams in the banking sector. His background includes low-level work on embedded JVMs and middleware for set-top boxes, plus decades of hands-on incident management, performance tuning and CI-driven release processes. Jarek combines deep operational expertise (Oracle, Netezza/PureData, INFORMIX, Solaris/Windows) with software engineering skills in Java, C/C++ and automation—bridging legacy systems and modern cloud-native practices. Notably, his career stretches back to university teaching and early real-time/industrial systems work, which gives him a pragmatic, systems-level view few senior developers retain.
3 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
mathematics-physics line, mathematics-physics line at III LO w Katowicach
M. Sc. Eng., Computer Science, M. Sc. Eng., Computer Science at The Silesian University of Technology
English, German, Japanese