Summary
Michal Huniewicz is an experienced engineering manager and data platform leader with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable data and streaming systems across media and insurance sectors. Currently leading Data and AI Engineering at AXA XL after managing near-real-time KStreams pipelines and batch Spark workloads at Compare the Market, he combines architecture, delivery and team-building skills to move projects from prototype to production. Previously he led the Financial Times data platform where he improved query performance from hours to seconds, drove CDC redesign, GDPR-safe PII handling, and enabled order-of-magnitude increases in data access through training and tooling. Comfortable coding across Java, Python and cloud-native stacks, Michal is pragmatic about reducing maintenance overhead while enabling data science and analytics to ship faster. He’s known for breaking monoliths into maintainable services and fostering cross-functional data literacy that amplifies organizational impact.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu