Lukasz Karolewski is a senior engineering leader with 15+ years building high-availability web and search systems across startups and large enterprises, currently driving LLM and GAI integration at LinkedIn. He combines first-principles thinking with hands-on execution—having founded and sold an ISP, served as CTO of a HIPAA-compliant healthcare comms startup, and led large web rewrites that materially improved revenue, performance, and reliability. Lukasz has managed managers and organizations up to dozens of engineers, overseen multi-region 99.99% systems at ~10k qps, and delivered culture- and process-level changes like CI/CD, experimentation programs, and automated testing. He’s equally comfortable leading technology migrations and crafting business cases for change, evidenced by measurable gains in revenue, CSAT, and defect reduction. Based in San Jose and grounded in a Warsaw University of Technology CS education plus executive study at Berkeley and Stanford, he brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-functional influence, and a knack for turning complex technical challenges into quantifiable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology
Stanford Continuing Studies
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Certificate IT Management and IT Governance, Certificate IT Management and IT Governance at SGH Warsaw School of Economics
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Lukasz Karolewski - Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn