Summary
Robert Jackiewicz is a Managing Partner and staff-level software engineer with 16 years of experience building and scaling mission-critical backend systems, particularly in payments and financial transactions. He excels at translating strategic direction into pragmatic technical decisions, clarifying architecture, and removing program-level blockers across large, multi-team initiatives. Robert blends hands-on engineering—designing event-driven systems, Kafka platforms, and contract testing—with mentoring and coaching to raise team craftsmanship and delivery predictability. He has led cloud-native modernizations that saved millions, built internal tooling (Kafka operators, Go microservice chassis), and even launched a successful e-commerce startup that informed his practical payments and logistics expertise. Based in Toronto, he’s known for asking the uncomfortable questions others avoid and for quietly amplifying leaders’ impact by getting the hard technical work done.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A.Sc., Computer and Electrical Engineering, B.A.Sc., Computer and Electrical Engineering at University of Toronto
NEXT Toronto Cohort 0
English