Summary
Wojtek Erbetowski is a hands-on engineering leader with 12 years crafting APIs and web apps and a track record of scaling teams and technology across startups and large companies. He has held senior roles from CTO at Growbots and Codility to Engineering Manager at Google and now leads Island’s new Warsaw engineering hub, combining hiring, mentorship, and product-focused technical stewardship. Wojtek is fluent across Python, Java, ES6, Scala and cloud-native stacks, and brings practical discipline in Lean, Kanban, TDD and Management 3.0 to drive predictable delivery. He’s shipped robust systems in domains as varied as financial modeling, adtech, e-mail marketing and pharmaceutical portals, often rescuing legacy codebases with pragmatic refactoring. An active community builder and open-source contributor, he also co-founded the L8 Conference, reflecting his investment in developer ecosystems. Collected mathematical training underpins his analytical approach to architecture and process design.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Warsaw University of Technology
mgr (master) Mathematics, mgr (master) Mathematics at University of Warsaw
Polish, English