Summary
Michal Pisanko is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12+ years building resilient, scalable distributed systems using a polyglot toolbox—Clojure/ClojureScript, Java, Ruby, Scala, Elixir and more. He focuses on pragmatic, functional approaches to solve business problems and has driven platform and data engineering work across companies like JUXT, Zendesk and Qantas Loyalty. His experience spans ML data platforms, event-driven data pipelines (Kafka/Spark), cloud migrations and tooling for CI/CD and infrastructure automation. Michal often introduces functional languages into teams, having championed Clojure adoption for data extraction and integration projects. Based in Catalonia, he pairs a curiosity for new technologies with appreciation for proven techniques and brings a hands-on, consultant mindset to architecture and delivery. Outside engineering he’s an avid mountain biker, snowboarder and climber, reflecting a taste for technical challenges and exploration.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Regensburg
MSC, MSC at University of Lodz
Polish, Spanish, German, English, French