Summary
Szymon Warda is an Azure-certified solutions architect and experienced technology advisor with 11 years of practice designing cloud-native systems, leading large engineering teams, and guiding strategic platform decisions. As managing partner at Protopia and former Engineering Director at Meniga, he specializes in Azure migrations, Kubernetes and serverless architectures, CI/CD automation, and observability for scalable SaaS and internal platforms. He has a track record of building high-impact engineering organizations—from bootstrapping R&D and ML teams to running 40+ developer programs—and improving performance and delivery through automation and architectural rigor. A hands-on engineer, he built Cookit.pl as a pet project to experiment with massive data processing, NLP for ingredient parsing, and large-scale search, shaving multi-day pipelines down to hours. He also runs technical training and a podcast, blending mentorship and public-facing knowledge sharing with deep technical delivery. Trained at Warsaw University of Technology, he combines academic foundations in AI with pragmatic system-building for business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
enginieer, Computer Science, enginieer, Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology
English, Polish, Russian, German