Michal Szczesny
Lead Architect at Kraken Technologies
Las Palmas, Spain
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RockstarMichal Szczesny is a hands-on technology and operations leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling e-commerce and marketplace businesses, currently serving as Lead Architect at Kraken Technologies. He grew Artfinder’s revenues roughly threefold, led its transition to fully remote with 95%+ employee satisfaction, and steered the company to B Corp certification while overseeing ~£2m in fundraising and two successful crowdfunding campaigns. Technically-minded and operationally rigorous, he combines product development, process optimization and budgeting to drive efficiency and measurable business outcomes—examples include achieving a 4.9 Trustpilot and artist NPS above 60. An empathetic, emotionally intelligent leader, he empowers team ownership while remaining willing to be deeply hands-on when needed. Through his consultancy he helps NGOs and mission-driven businesses accelerate digital transformation and amplify impact, having enabled planting of 150,000+ trees and offsetting 400+ tCO2e. Based in Las Palmas and fluent across cultural contexts, he blends strategic vision with pragmatic execution.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, Polish, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
django9
django-admin9
django-project8
python7
ecommerce7
commerce7
django-oscar6
tangent1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gump/chatbot-ui
May 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
octoenergy/django-configurations
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
A helper for organizing Django project settings by relying on well established programming patterns.
Contributions:4 pushes in 18 days
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