Summary
Stefan Kopieczek is a Head of Engineering and versatile software engineer with 13 years’ experience building and supporting systems in Python, Java, Erlang, C and Go, currently leading engineering at Augur Initiative after a long tenure at Palantir. He combines hands-on backend and release engineering—launching long-term stable Foundry releases and operating air-gapped deployments for UK defence—with frontline incident response and customer-facing delivery. Stefan is known for rapid learning and pragmatic problem-solving, able to move between low-level debugging and strategic team leadership to deliver operational impact. His background in scalable messaging systems and telecoms at Metaswitch, plus a mathematics MMath from Oxford, give him a strong foundation in both systems thinking and rigorous analysis. Notably, he has experience deploying LLMs to specialised infrastructure, bridging cutting-edge ML capabilities with secure, operational environments.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematics, Master's degree Mathematics at University of Oxford
Doctor Challoner's Grammar School
French, German