Summary
Marek Buchowiecki is an operations and release management leader with five years of focused experience scaling complex, high-stakes software and blockchain grant-distribution programs. He currently serves as Catalyst Operations Manager at the Cardano Foundation, after leading operations for Project Catalyst at IOHK where he managed bookkeeping, forecasting and payments for 2,000+ funded projects and 9,000+ participants across a $140M+ distribution program. His background spans release management, QA leadership and automation—running teams, CI/CD and risk controls at Rydoo and earlier hands-on test engineering and development roles. Marek combines a rigorous process mindset with practical tooling experience (Azure DevOps, GitLab, TeamCity, SQL, Postman) to improve auditability and operational readiness across end-to-end workflows. He is notable for translating release and compliance requirements into scalable operational models and automation specs that materially reduced manual overhead in decentralized funding operations. Based in Bialystok, Poland, he brings a detail-oriented engineering foundation to high-impact program operations.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier (Inż.), Informatyka, Inżynier (Inż.), Informatyka at Bialystok University of Technology