Summary
Michal Jurkowski is an engineering manager based in Wrocław with nine years of experience leading full-stack teams and shipping scalable web applications. At Focal Systems he progressed from Senior Fullstack Developer to Engineering Manager, driving migrations and integrations across React/TypeScript, Python, GCP, Kafka and Redis to support real-time systems. Previously he led frontend engineering at LiveChat, steering a major redesign and tech-stack migration for an app handling hundreds of concurrent conversations. He combines hands-on coding and architecture with people leadership and mentorship experience from roles at Kodilla and as a long-time startup CTO. Michal’s background in business informatics gives him a pragmatic product-minded approach to engineering trade-offs and delivery. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of frontend performance, backend reliability, and team scaling.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Business Informatics, Master’s Degree Business Informatics at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
Polish, English, Spanish