Tomasz Kołek
Head Of Finance & Administration
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolTomasz Kołek is a finance and operations leader with 11 years of cross-border experience building and scaling technology-enabled businesses, from IoT startups to SaaS platforms and international ventures. Currently Head of Finance & Administration at Black Label and co-founder of people-ops startup Spacebridge, he combines hands-on financial stewardship with strategic planning, treasury, tax, M&A and investor reporting across USA, UK, EU, Mexico and China. His background includes founding roles at Kontakt.io and senior finance leadership at Talent Alpha, where he supported digital business models, subscription economics and blockchain-enabled talent matching. Early banking experience honed his risk assessment and client management skills, while his GitHub contributions show practical Python backend chops and real-world open-source integrations (notably adding a ProPublica adapter and Sentry integration for a civic project). He pairs an entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for photography, often recharging by shooting nature in remote locations—a habit that reflects his attention to detail and long-term focus.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Management and Marketing, Master's degree, Management and Marketing at Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
Github Skills (14)
django-rest10
api10
django-rest-framework10
apidoc10
python10
django10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
democracy8
engage8
postgresql8
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CiviWiki/OpenCiviWiki
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Building a Better Democracy for the Internet Age
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 26 PRs, 93 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tomasz contributed significantly to the back-end functionality of the "openciviwiki" project. They fixed JavaScript issues within the web application and integrated Sentry for error tracking. Furthermore, the user added and adapted a ProPublica API adapter, including related models and views, to fetch and display bill data. Finally, they implemented a "My Bills" tab, linking user actions to the bills they are voting on.
participatory-democracypythonvolunteerscivic-engagementcivic-tech
TomaszKolek/datamanager
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
A django app that helps shape data and provides single sign-on for https://vulekamali.gov.za
Contributions:229 pushes, 12 branches in 27 days
govpythonsigndjangosingle-sign-on
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