Summary
Szymon Bochniak is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience specializing in data processing, cloud platforms, and scalable backend systems. He has driven data platform and warehouse initiatives across Zalando group, building everything from a Data Management Platform to a payment risk evaluation system using tools like Redshift, Kinesis, Athena, EMR, Databricks, Airflow, dbt and Kubernetes. Comfortable across languages and environments—including Python, Go, Java and bash—he blends hands-on implementation with architectural thinking to move analytics and risk systems into production. His career spans both infrastructure-heavy roles at Profitbricks and long-running contributions to Zalando’s data stack, showing a consistent focus on reliability and operational pragmatism. Known for turning messy, multi-source data flows into robust pipelines, he brings an engineer’s common sense to complex, high-throughput problems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electronics and Computer Engineering, BSc, Electronics and Computer Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology
English, German, Polish