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Adam Tumialis

Software Engineering Manager
Gdansk

Summary

DevOps/Software Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience leading high-performing software and DevOps teams, combining strong technical expertise with strategic leadership. Proven track record in building and scaling reliable, secure, and high-availability systems across cloud-native platforms and ML/AI infrastructures. Hands-on coding experience in Python and deep understanding of modern SRE practices including observability, incident management, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and service-level objectives (SLOs). Experienced in managing global teams, driving cross-functional initiatives, and delivering robust Internet-scale services and open-source projects. Known for analytical rigor, operational excellence, and a focus on system reliability and continuous improvement.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Software Engineering Manager (AI/Dev/Val/Ops)

Perpetual Intelligence
02.2025 - Current
  • Led a team of engineers (development, validation and devops) to deliver high-quality software solutions (based on Large Language Models/diffusion models) in a timely manner. Created sprint plans, prioritized tasks and ensured that team worked on agreed upon goals.
  • Provided regular feedback to engineers and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations.
  • Ensured that team follows best practices in software architecture, code quality, and testing. Participated in architectural discussions, code reviews and debugging sessions along with engineers.
  • Collaborated with product managers and principal engineers to define clear project requirements, aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
  • Defined and supervised implementation of CI pipelines in Github Actions
  • Used Git and GitHub for collaborative development, code reviews, and CI/CD integration

AI/DevOps Software Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (NEX/ODT)
2 2020 - 01.2025
  • Managed a team of 6 software engineers, ensuring regular OpenVINO Model Server (https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/model_server) releases aligned with OpenVINO toolkit schedules, resulting in successful customer deployments.
  • Directed a team of 10 developers, successfully merging ONNX Importer to OpenVINO toolkit, improving ONNX model performance and supporting new versions.
  • Led a team of 6 DevOps engineers, delivering lab infrastructure and CI pipelines (Jenkins and Github Actions), reaching ~700 servers, client machines, and VMs, enhancing development and validation processes.
  • Defined infrastructure monitoring processes (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana) and supervised incident management.
  • Mentored junior and senior engineers. Promoted 2 engineers to tech leads.

DevOps/Deep Learning Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (AIPG)
2 2017 - 2 2020
  • Led a team of 10 engineers to develop Intel Nervana appliance (DL100), Nauta platform, and NNP-T orchestration in Kubernetes, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality solutions.
  • Implemented monitoring solutions using Prometheus and Grafana, enhancing system performance analysis and debugging capabilities.
  • Collaborated with external customers to define new features and handle support issues, successfully open-sourcing Nauta and integrating it into Dell's Ready Solution for Deep Learning with Intel.

DevOps/Software Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (DCG)
07.2015 - 02.2017
  • Managed two teams: DevOps and software development (16 people in total) in Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP) project.
  • Coordinated deployments for internal and external purposes: development, demos (e.g. IDF conferences), early engagements with customers.
  • Cooperated with external customers in planning and deploying TAP in their public and private clouds.
  • Coordinated and managed of 24/7 support and SLA processes for TAP environments in AWS.
  • Migrated EnableIoT service to TAP platform.
  • Developed core services in TAP 0.8 (Kubernetes based), coordinated migration from Cloud Foundry to Kubernets.

Achievements:

  • Public releases of 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 and 0.8 versions of Trusted Analytics Platform (github.com/trustedanalytics and github.com/trustedanalytics-ng).

Software Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (DCG)
06.2014 - 07.2015
  • Managed the team of 13 people that developed and validated EnableIoT service (https://github.com/enableiot).
  • Defined and coordinated production deployments to AWS, maintenance and 24/7 support.
  • Engaged in demos of EnableIoT services (i.e. IoT conference in Zakopane, Hack-a-thon in Technical University of Gdansk).

Achievements:

  • Several production releases of EnableIoT service.

Software Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (SSG)
05.2012 - 06.2014
  • Manager responsible for the team of 16 people (two teams) that developed and validated Trusted Connect Service and one more, internal project.
  • Successful delivery of Intel Upgrade Service features for Haswell, Broadwell and BayTrail platforms used publically by Lenovo on its production line.
  • Cooperation with Product Owners to define and scope projects.
  • Supervised deployments to production environments, maintenance and 24/7 support.
  • Coordinated development activities between Intel and the outsourcing vendor.
  • Member of Technical Development Council that influenced the creation of two internal trainings - "Pain of Python" and "Introduction to C#".

Security Researcher

Intel Corporation
07.2009 - 05.2012
  • Security researcher in Trusted Connect Service project responsible for ensuring that released software didn't contain security vulnerabilities.
  • Code reviews, penetration tests and development of fuzzing tools (several findings in pre-released software).
  • Tracking and enforcing Software Development Lifecycle process.
  • Coordination of external and internal penetration tests.
  • Delivered secure code development trainings in Intel Gdansk.
  • Delivered lectures about many security vulnerabilities to the team to enhance its security awareness.

Senior Software Engineer

Intel Corporation
11.2007 - 07.2009
  • Software developer in the team that designed, implemented and released to production Intel Upgrade Service.
  • Responsible for various parts of the system (i.e. ActiveX plugin, backend services in C#/.NET and C++, MS SQL database, Windows client applications)
  • Member of 3rd level support (responsible for early detection of possible issues and fixing defects affecting production service)
  • Author of early integrations that enhanced IUS security. It required cooperation with US team that implemented changes in processor's microcode.

Senior Software Engineer

Intel Corporation
11.1999 - 11.2007
  • Software developer in teams that designed and implemented features for Intel Network Processors (IXP1200, IXP2400, IXP2800).
  • Implementation of various features in Intel SDKs for IXP processors.
  • Software developer involved in Active Management Technology releases.
  • Implemented code and tests that helped in preparation of USB Redirection feature in FPGA that was later used in the production code in AMT.
  • Development of Linux drivers for various Intel HW components.
  • Author of internal tools e.g. defects synchronisation tool between two different databases.

Software Engineer

Olicom Poland
08.1997 - 11.1999
  • Software developer responsible for implementation and testing code for Ethernet up-link in Olicom TokenRing switches.

Software Engineer

CrossComm Poland
07.1996 - 08.1997
  • Software developer responsible for bug fixing of code used in CrossComm routers.
  • Design and implementation of a defect tracking application used internally by teams in US and Poland (integration with Sybase DB and replication server).

Education

Master of Science -

Gdansk University of Technology, MSc, Computer Science
Gdansk
10.1992 - 06.1997

Skills

Languages: Python, C/C, C#, Bash, Shell scripting

API Design: RESTful APIs (FastAPI), gRPC

Testing Frameworks: pytest, unitest, gtest (for C)

Programming Paradigms: Object-Oriented (OOP), Procedural Programming

Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS, Windows

Databases:

SQL/NoSQL: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, HBase, Redis

Vector DB: Milvus

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TeamCity,

Version control: Git/Github

Monitoring and observability: Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Fluentd/Logstash, Kibana

Core Competencies

  • Engineering & Team Leadership:
    Led high-performing global teams of up to 20 engineers across US, Israel, India, Russia, Germany, and Ireland
    Experienced in hiring, mentoring, and growing engineering talent
    Skilled in cross-functional collaboration with product, infrastructure, and security teams
  • Site Reliability & DevOps Strategy:
    Deep expertise in SRE principles: incident management, service-level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and postmortems
    Strong background in DevOps practices and automation tools: GitHub Actions, Jenkins/TeamCity, Git/Github
    Proficient in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC) for high-availability services
  • Software Architecture & Delivery:
    Hands-on experience with microservices architecture and scalable backend systems
    Software development lifecycle management using Agile (Scrum, Kanban – Certified Scrum Master), Waterfall, and hybrid models
  • Security & Compliance:
    Deep understanding of secure development lifecycle (SDL), cryptography, and software security principles
  • AI & ML Infrastructure:
    Strong understanding of machine learning systems and deployment requirements (LLMs, CNNs, diffusion models)


Interests

Psychology, physical activities (running, strength training), reading

Timeline

Software Engineering Manager (AI/Dev/Val/Ops)

Perpetual Intelligence
02.2025 - Current

DevOps/Software Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (DCG)
07.2015 - 02.2017

Software Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (DCG)
06.2014 - 07.2015

Software Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (SSG)
05.2012 - 06.2014

Security Researcher

Intel Corporation
07.2009 - 05.2012

Senior Software Engineer

Intel Corporation
11.2007 - 07.2009

Senior Software Engineer

Intel Corporation
11.1999 - 11.2007

Software Engineer

Olicom Poland
08.1997 - 11.1999

Software Engineer

CrossComm Poland
07.1996 - 08.1997

Master of Science -

Gdansk University of Technology, MSc, Computer Science
10.1992 - 06.1997

AI/DevOps Software Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (NEX/ODT)
2 2020 - 01.2025

DevOps/Deep Learning Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation (AIPG)
2 2017 - 2 2020
Adam TumialisSoftware Engineering Manager