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FILIP BŁASZCZYK

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Summary

What does the modern technology world require? To build connections - between people, ideas, technology, and business. For 15 years, I've experienced every part of the software development life cycle. I'm a strong communicator with a solid technical background. Team player and problem solver, focused on navigating through uncertainty and bringing clarity to inspire action. At its core, it's about the profound belief that strong teams with clear goals and vision can achieve greatness. Driven by resilience, can-do attitude, and curiosity — crucial in the ever-evolving tech landscape. Beyond code, I bridge gaps, simplify complexities, and always set my sights on the horizon. Move forward, make progress, and ensure we're always ready for what's next.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING

RELAYR
01.2021 - Current
  • Leading Product Engineering organization (Poland, Germany, USA) of 60+ FTE developing AI-based products in IIoT domain (Condition monitoring)
  • Being accountable for delivery, maintenance and infrastructure of company products
  • Improving communication between business and technology, bringing people together and focusing on solutions
  • Setting department’s strategy aligned with company goals, sponsoring strategic initiatives (new product development, cloud migration, adoption of new technologies)
  • Developing managers and technical leaders through coaching and mentoring
  • Managing change and supporting teams through a major reorg from functional to cross functional, scalable, agile organization
  • Fostering organizational culture based on trust, empathy and accountability
  • Managing $10m+ operational budget, staffing, forecasting
  • Hiring and retaining right talent
  • Driving focus through OKR framework, promoting outcome-driven approach
  • Establishing cooperation with external partners that accelerate and support company’s mission-critical initiatives

MANAGER OF SOLUTION ENGINEERING

RELAYR
06.2020 - 12.2020
  • Managed delivery of cross-functional team of 10 engineers working on customer-facing projects in IoT domain based on Azure tech-stack
  • Introduced Scrum methodology for the development team and ensuring continuous improvement of delivery process
  • Focused on project delivery. Closely cooperating with Customer Success, Project Managers and Solution Architects to refine requirements and identify priorities.
  • Promoting inter-department communication by engaging in common initiatives
  • Removing impediments for the team

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER

EPAM SYSTEMS
12.2018 - 05.2020
  • Built and managed multi-cultural development teams of 50+ engineers in total
  • Achieved one of the highest scores in employee engagement surveys
  • Established local delivery structure for new accounts
  • Took part in organization growth by identifying and developing technical leaders and resource managers
  • Provided technical consulting and mentoring for staff members
  • Established trust and maintained good relationships with US based clients and key stakeholders as a delivery manager
  • End-to-end responsibility over software delivery for multi-million dollar projects
  • Defined software delivery pipelines using best engineering practices adjusted to selected delivery model (Scrum, Kanban, Spotify Agile etc.)
  • Assured good engineering practices in software development (Planning & Estimation , Testing Automation, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Version Control)
  • Supported talent acquisition activities by performing manager interviews and hired over 60 engineers with various skill sets from all over the world

LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER

QUERIS
01.2015 - 12.2018
  • Acted as a development manager and dev lead in startup environment for two development teams and automation engineers, architecting solutions for manufacturing industry (MES and CMMS systems)
  • Department size of 20+ FTE
  • Managing a team of automation engineers who were responsible for providing a reusable hardware components to support capabilities of MES system
  • Architecture design and software development of core functionalities of MES system
  • Software development using .NET and .NET Core with C# to build modern manufacturing support platform
  • Building reusable user interfaces (web - Angular 2+ and mobile - Flutter) to create tools for production reporting
  • Provided consulting and technical supervision on new implementation projects (integrations with ERP systems, machinery and various dependencies)
  • Served as a subject matter expert for manufacturing processes and industrial automation
  • Visited over 70 manufacturing plants across Poland and Europe for pre-sales activities and requirements analysis
  • Co-designed and improved L1/L2 customer support department to support customer-base of size 50+ to solve issues with company products (MES and CMMS)
  • Built a recognized and successful product on Polish market
  • Established an Agile culture of software engineering and created a delivery organization of 20+ FTE
  • Architecture transformation from monolith application to modern eco-system of web services with a DDD approach
  • Tech stack: .NET, .NET Core Web API, WPF, Angular 4+, Flutter, MS SQL, Entity Framework, IIS, Python

.NET SOFTWARE ENGINEER

QUERIS
05.2013 - 01.2015
  • Software development in C# building CMMS and MES systems, taking part in every phase of SDLC aligned with Scrum methodology
  • Control systems design and PLC programming (i.a
  • Siemens S7, ABB AC500, Omron)
  • Development of SCADA/HMI applications (Indusoft Web Studio, Wonderware)
  • Implementation of machine integration services using OPC standard
  • SQL database design and optimization
  • Design of industrial data acquisition systems
  • Integration development with external systems (ERP, MRP)
  • Selecting hardware to support solutions, providing a standardized approach to hardware components of the system
  • Tech stack: .NET 4.0+, WCF, WPF, Entity framework, MS SQL, Python

INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENGINEER

INMET
12.2010 - 05.2013
  • Design and development of control systems for production lines in steel industry (decoilers, straighteners, profiling lines, cut-to-length, slitting lines, stackers)
  • PLC software development (Siemens, Beckhoff), HMI programming (Beckhoff), drive configuration (Beckhoff, SEW)
  • Design of electrical schematics (WSCAD)
  • Commissioning and testing on-site.

Education

Master of Science - Automation And Robotics, Electronics, Computer Science

Macrocourse @ SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Gliwice, Poland
09.2010

Skills

  • Leadership and team management
  • Positive attitude and perseverance
  • Delivery and project management skills
  • Strategic thinking and planning
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Customer and stakeholder management
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Coaching, mentoring, active listening
  • Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies in software delivery (Scrum, Kanban)
  • Strong technical background as software engineer and business analyst
  • Experience working with distributed, cloud-based systems
  • Software engineering skills (C#, Python)
  • Knowledge of good engineering practices (DevOps, CI/CD, SOLID, Clean code, TDD, DDD)
  • Experience in requirements gathering and refinement, connecting product vision with engineering roadmaps
  • Knowledge of Business Intelligence tools (PowerBI)
  • English: C2

Timeline

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING

RELAYR
01.2021 - Current

MANAGER OF SOLUTION ENGINEERING

RELAYR
06.2020 - 12.2020

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER

EPAM SYSTEMS
12.2018 - 05.2020

LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER

QUERIS
01.2015 - 12.2018

.NET SOFTWARE ENGINEER

QUERIS
05.2013 - 01.2015

INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENGINEER

INMET
12.2010 - 05.2013

Master of Science - Automation And Robotics, Electronics, Computer Science

Macrocourse @ SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

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