My Philosophy: Optimizing Humans, Not Just Systems
"I believe in optimizing humans, not just systems. I do 7-day water fasts to build mental discipline. I work on BMW engines because troubleshooting complex mechanical systems parallels debugging distributed architectures. I race cars to understand calculated risk-taking under pressure. I play soccer because leadership is the ultimate team sport. I follow the Pareto Principle in all I do and believe in Time Revolution. Every day is Another Day in Paradise."
Everything connects - whether it's my engineers hitting 30% velocity gains or pushing my own limits daily. Excellence is a system, not an accident.
Mental Discipline
7-day water fasts build the resilience needed for impossible technical challenges
Systems Thinking
BMW engine troubleshooting parallels debugging distributed architectures
Calculated Risk
Racing teaches risk management and split-second decision making
Team Leadership
Soccer develops the collaborative mindset essential for engineering teams
Pareto Principle
80/20 thinking in everything - from gaming rig builds to cleaning dishes by hand for agility practice
Universal Energy
Meditation, gratitude, family balance - blessed with amazing wife Agnieszka and two kids: Damian (CTO) & Anna (Future Actuary)
Technical Insights
Technical insights and leadership lessons from the trenches
Architecture
The Day We Discovered Our "Small" Project Was Actually 1.5 Petabytes
When a federal compliance project exploded from 100GB to 1.5PB overnight, 100+ people across 37 organizations were looking to me for a solution. Here's how I architected the impossible.
From Hard Drives to Real-Time: The Architecture That Saved $1.5M Annually
Leading an 8-developer team to eliminate $1.8M in manual reporting costs with enterprise data architecture. How C# and Java systems replaced hard drives and Excel chaos.
As Chief Architect, turning daily-crashing Ruby pipelines into healthcare-native infrastructure. How Luigi wrapper abstraction enabled 1-2 day hospital integrations.