Summary
Pawel Dolega is a seasoned technology executive and CTO based in Krakow with 11+ years leading distributed, cloud-native engineering at scale. He has built and scaled high-performance teams across startups, software houses and product organizations鈥攎ost recently steering VirtusLab鈥檚 technical strategy and distributed systems portfolio. Comfortable moving between hands-on architecture, pre/post-sales engagement and operational leadership, he has a track record of delivering resilient, high-throughput systems for government, finance and enterprise customers. A founder at heart (Nexelem, SoftQ), he combines entrepreneurial grit with corporate experience from IBM to grow engineering organizations from dozens to hundreds of engineers. Known for clear strategic communication and retention-focused people practices, he also brings deep practical knowledge of virtualization and Lightbend-related stacks that informs pragmatic, production-ready designs.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at The Silesian University of Technology
Post-diploma studies Project Management, Post-diploma studies Project Management at Krakow University of Economics
English, Polish