Summary
Rafał Kowalski is a senior technical leader with 12 years of experience architecting and operating cloud-native big data, AI and analytics platforms, currently heading Cloud and GenAI Services at DBS Bank in Singapore. He progressed through hands-on roles from Java developer to cloud solution architect and technical lead, bringing rare end-to-end experience from low-level data movement to production GenAI services. Rafał combines a strong scientific background (PhD-level physics) with practical engineering, enabling rigorous, data-driven approaches to scalable system design and model deployment. He has led cloud migrations and platformization efforts at enterprise scale, focusing on reliability, performance and automation across data pipelines. Based in Singapore and pursuing further AI studies at MIT, he blends research-minded curiosity with measurable business impact. A detail that often surprises colleagues: his foundation in experimental physics informs his methodical approach to A/B testing and causal analysis in production ML systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Nauki fizyczne, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Nauki fizyczne at The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN)
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Technical Physics, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Technical Physics at AGH University of Krakow
Polish, English