Michał Nowotka
Engineering Manager at Asana
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMichał Nowotka is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and R&D teams across Europe, currently leading Asana’s Warsaw engineering hub. He has a track record of creating high-performing teams from scratch—most recently standing up Snowflake’s first EU Streamlit team and shipping the semantic Explore feature for Streamlit Community Cloud. His background spans communications platforms, cloud products, bioinformatics data pipelines and financial systems, blending hands-on backend architecture with people leadership. Michał pairs technical depth (C++, Python, microservices, search and data integration) with operational rigor—hiring, cross-site collaboration and cost optimization. He holds an Executive MBA and a technical master’s degree, reflecting both strategic business acumen and strong engineering roots. Beyond management, he consistently moves between coding and strategy, favoring pragmatic decomposition of complex monoliths into maintainable services.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Technology, Excellent (with distinction), Master of Science - MS, Information Technology, Excellent (with distinction) at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information TechnologyDouble Executive MBA in collaboration with Kozminski University, Business Administration and Management, General, Excellent, Double Executive MBA in collaboration with Kozminski University, Business Administration and Management, General, Excellent at Porto Business SchoolMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Did not finish (began working at the European Bioinformatics Institute, UK), Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Did not finish (began working at the European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) at Warsaw University of TechnologyXIV Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Stanisława Staszica w WarszawieExecutive MBA in English, Excellent, Executive MBA in English, Excellent at Kozminski University
German, Polish, English, Russian
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Github Skills (149)
python10
python-client10
rest-client10
chemistry10
api10
rest10
cheminformatics10
rdkit10
textrank10
django9
tornado9
phrase9
html9
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asp-net9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mnowotka/babyshortener
Oct 2017 - Feb 2025
simple url shortener implemented using Flask
Contributions:1 PR, 75 pushes, 98 branches in 7 years 5 months
shortenerpythonflask-apiflasktinyurl
chembl/chembl_webresource_client
Apr 2014 - Mar 2018
Official Python client for accessing ChEMBL API
Contributions:176 commits, 4 PRs, 202 pushes in 3 years 11 months
cheminformaticsapichemistrypythonchemoinformatics
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